The Ascension Zoning Commission will weigh new data center rules today

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Ascension Parish is moving to establish where data centers can be built—and who must bear the costs and community impacts of bringing the power-intensive facilities online. Proposed regulations would limit data centers and similar high-impact developments to industrially zoned property while imposing requirements governing their size, location, water use, noise, emergency response and supporting utility

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