明尼阿波利斯市议会7比6通过数据中心新规 限市中心现有建筑、21日禁令到期
明尼苏达州亨内平县明尼阿波利斯市议会11月12日以7比6的投票结果通过一项数据中心新规条例，对新建数据中心作出严格限制。
按照通过的方案，新的数据中心只能设在市中心两个叠加分区内的现有建筑内，不能成为建筑的主要用途，也不能设在一楼或二楼；服务器使用面积一般不得超过5万平方英尺，加入可再生能源计划、全部用电使用可再生能源的大型设施可放宽至15万平方英尺；每个新项目还须经市议会逐个批准。
条例现送交市长 Jacob Frey 签署，市长此前对逐个审批的要求持保留态度，市议会已安排11月20日再开会处理可能的否决。市政府此前对多数新建数据中心实施的临时禁令将于11月21日到期。
市长 Jacob Frey 支持允许部分数据中心发展、而非全面禁止的监管思路。支持限制的居民则要求更强的保护措施，担心数据中心耗电量大、影响环境和市中心地产前景。
Minneapolis Council Passes Data Center Rules 7-6, Limiting Them to Existing Downtown Buildings as November 21 Moratorium Nears
The Minneapolis City Council in Hennepin County, Minnesota, voted 7-6 on November 12 to pass a new data center ordinance imposing strict limits on new facilities.
Under the approved measure, new data centers may go only into existing buildings in two downtown overlay districts. They cannot be a building's primary use and cannot sit on the first or second floor. Server space is generally capped at 50,000 square feet, rising to 150,000 square feet for larger facilities that join a renewable-energy program and power all of their operations with renewable electricity. Each new project also requires individual council approval.
The ordinance now goes to Mayor Jacob Frey, who has expressed reservations about the project-by-project approval requirement, and the council has scheduled a November 20 meeting to address a possible veto. The city's temporary moratorium on most new data centers expires on November 21.
Mayor Frey supports a regulatory approach that allows some data center development rather than a full ban. Residents backing tighter limits are asking for stronger protections, worried about data centers' heavy power use and their effects on the environment and downtown real estate.
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