Olive Branch restricts data centers
Olive Branch passed regulations on data centers in its city to avoid a situation like nearby Southaven has with SpaceXAI. The artificial intelligence company’s Southaven facility is pictured above. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
After a summer of tweaks and deliberations, Olive Branch officials codified new language regulating data centers in the suburbs.
The ordinance, which puts restrictions on noise and how close data centers can be home to homes in the area, is effective immediately.
City officials began discussing adding language to the city zoning code to regulate data centers back in June. The idea was pitched as a way to protect Olive Branch from a Memphis- and Southaven-esque situation with SpaceXAI. Like those two cities, Olive Branch previously didn’t have any language restricting data center proposals. They were allowed by right in industrial zones in the city because the old language allowed for storage warehouses, a definition under which one could argue data centers fall.
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Aarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
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