<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1RbCqP_1H1ftyiF00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1RbCqP_1H1ftyiF00" width="619" height="323" >Towns and cities in central Oklahoma continue dealing with the issue of data centers.As the City Council in Oklahoma City voted this week to extend the city’s moratorium on new data centers until the end of 2027, the city of Piedmont prepares to consider the topic.The Piedmont Planning and Zoning Commission will meet Thursday to consider a rezoning application for development of Project Open Sky, a proposed 633-acre data center site in Canadian County, located on the edge of Piedmont city limits roughly five miles north of downtown Piedmont. Project Open Sky represents an over $1 billion capital investment in the City of Piedmont according to developers Cimarron Project Co. LLC and Cloverleaf Infrastructure.The developers have made changes to their application in the past few months and agreed to adhere to the Piedmont sound ordinance. They also agreed not to drill water wells on the property and to remove the power-generation component from the plans.Before Oklahoma City council members voted unanimously to extend the city’s data center moratorium until the end of 2027, one resident, Shondon Kirkendall gave an unusual presentation in her object to data centers, including the one approved last month to be built in west Oklahoma City.She played what she said was the sound of a data center and explained it would not be at the 70 to 80 decibels the council approved fore the data center.“So for 24-7, this is what your people are gonna hear. I mean, I think that if we are expecting for residents to live with this noise for 24-7, obviously you guys should be able to muster it for less than 60 seconds.”When the mayor interrupted Kirkendall as she played a tape of the whirring sound, she responded, “And even within the 60 seconds, Mayor Holt was already agitated, but this is what you want people to live with 24-7. And I think that that is doing a disgrace and a disservice to your fellow constituents when you put a data center in their neighborhood.”It didn’t deter the council from proceeding with its vote.In the wake of a data center fight in the city of Yukon, Mayor Brian Pillmore was voted out of office in a recent election and this week, he was replaced by Rick Cacini as interim mayor and Zak Kastl as vice mayor. The recall election came after more than a year of concerns about the proposed data center and how the city handled the project. The city’s vice mayor, Jeff Wooton, resigned in June when he too was targeted by the recall effort.</div></body>

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Towns and cities in central Oklahoma continue dealing with the issue of data centers. As the City Council in Oklahoma City voted this week to extend the city’s moratorium on new data centers until the end of 2027, the city of Piedmont prepares to consider the topic. The Piedmont...

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Towns and cities in central Oklahoma continue dealing with the issue of data centers. As the City Council in Oklahoma City voted this week to extend the ci

Piedmont to continue data center effort

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