Murray KY data center regulations (2026)

City of Murray, Ky. (Calloway County) — REVISED ORDINANCE REGULATING DATA CENTERS, second reading passed UNANIMOUSLY by the City Council at a Thursday meeting, with Mayor BOB ROGERS calling on City Clerk KIM MILES to recite the reading. PROCEDURAL HISTORY, which is the substance here: the ordinance was REVISED FOLLOWING A STUDY GROUP REVIEW, and the study group process followed a MURRAY PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING IN JUNE 2026 that drew a 'huge crowd'. More than a dozen city residents spoke at the council meeting itself, a smaller turnout than the June hearing. THE SEQUENCE IS THE DELIBERATIVE VARIANT of a pattern this dataset usually records as confrontation: proposal \u2192 large hostile hearing \u2192 STUDY GROUP \u2192 revision \u2192 unanimous adoption of the revised text. Compare the adversarial variants: Joplin MO data center regulations (2026) (council publicly refused to approve rules it considered too weak, then adopted a version with setbacks DOUBLED from 300 to 600 feet and a 45 dB limit, 5-4); Portage IN Technology Campus district data center rules (2026) (noise cap cut from 65 to 55 dB and height from 75 to 65 feet BY FLOOR AMENDMENT); Canton OH data center zoning chapter (2026) (adopted 8-3 over unanimous public opposition). Murray routed the disagreement through a study group instead and emerged with unanimity \u2014 which is a different governance outcome from the same inputs, and the kind of contrast that is only visible across a dataset of this size. Kentucky is also where mi-east-lansing's strategy of learning from other communities' feedback would find the most material. KENTUCKY COHORT, among the densest here: Woodford County KY permanent data center ban (2026) (the state's first permanent county ban), Two-year moratorium on data center construction and operation (adopted…, Rowan County KY two-year data center moratorium (2026), Mercer County KY one-year data center moratorium (2026), Logan County KY 12-month data center moratorium (2026), Nicholasville KY six-month data center moratorium (2026), London KY two-year data center moratorium (2026-16), Winchester KY one-year data center moratorium (2026), Louisville Metro six-month data center moratorium (O-135-26), Moratorium on data center permits, development plans and zone changes and Kentucky Beshear data center executive order (2026). THE ORDINANCE'S SUBSTANTIVE REQUIREMENTS ARE NOT REPORTED and are the material gap.