Marysville initiates 6-month moratorium on data centers

EVERETT — The Marysville City Council unanimously passed a temporary pause on data centers Monday.

The 6-month moratorium prevents all construction of buildings or facilities in which the principal use is the management or transmission of digital data. Incidental computer servers or digital processing equipment as part of a business with a different primary use is excluded from the ban.

The temporary pause gives the council time to create permanent regulations so “all of our citizens and all of our developers know what they can and cannot do,” council member Kelly Richards said during the meeting.

“We’re not saying ‘no’ to data centers,” he said. “We’re just trying to figure out what we are actually willing to accept and what our environment can accept.”

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