(Illustration by Joe Dworetzky/Bay City News)

Mendocino County supervisors voted 5-0 on September 1 to impose a 45-day emergency moratorium on new data centers. The pause gives the county time to define a kind of development its code does not currently regulate clearly and to weigh concerns about water, power, noise, and neighboring communities.

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