Proposed Memphis data center regulations start to show up in writing

By , Daily Memphian Updated: November 11, 2026 6:41 AM CT | Published: November 10, 2026 7:15 PM CT

The City Council has paused a raft of similar and competing proposals for the regulation of data centers as it moves deeper into drafting those regulations and land-use requirements.

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Memphis City Council data centers Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development Philip Spinosa Michalyn Easter-Thomas

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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.


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