HENRIETTA, N.Y. — The Town of Henrietta is holding a public hearing on Wednesday to discuss proposed restrictions on where large-scale data centers can be built.
The meeting starts at 6 p.m. at Henrietta Town Hall. The town board will discuss proposed zoning restrictions on data centers, which are increasingly being built to keep up with the massive amount of computing power that AI chatbots need. The meeting comes amid a one-year statewide pause on large data center construction that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed.
As News10NBC has covered, data centers have raised criticism because they require large amounts of energy to power thousands of computer servers, and large amounts of water to keep the computers cool. Henrietta Town Supervisor Stephen Schultz has said he’s not against data centers, but wants them to be built sustainably.
“We want to be proactive, not reactive. We are not against data centers as a rule — we are against the problems they create,” Schultz said in an email. “What our proposed law does is allow large-scale data centers only in areas where they can be supported and that they are built in a more sustainable way and/or that improves the infrastructure such that they leave the Town in a better situation after they are built as compared to before they were built.”
Schultz said data centers could provide some benefits to the town, such as providing taxes. Since most data centers have values between $100 million and $5 billion, that could be enough to drop every Henrietta resident’s taxes by 1.5% or more. News10NBC is working to learn how other local towns are planning to respond to large data centers.
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