El Paso City Council approves new data center regulations

El Paso City Council adopted its first Data Center Policy Framework, eliminating local tax incentives for future hyperscale data centre projects and requiring special permits with enhanced environmental and transparency standards. The framework follows six months of public engagement and does not affect the existing Meta data centre.

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