Broward County hears crickets in move toward data center freeze

Just one person weighed in at Broward County’s first public hearing on a proposal to freeze large-scale data center development, a week after Gov.-elect Byron Donalds, a supporter of the data center industry, narrowly won Florida’s gubernatorial race.  “These AI data centers represent taking our jobs away and taking away our way of life,” Chris Nelson, a Fort Lauderdale-based independent journalist and conservative political activist, said in Tuesday’s meeting. “The idea that these are going to be huge job creators is just ridiculous.”  No one spoke against the proposed freeze. The hearing was the first of two required before an […]

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