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The Mount Vernon City Council voted 6-1 on Aug. 12 for a six-month data center moratorium, joining Skagit County, La Conner, Seattle, and Spokane in preemptively pausing permits before any project has been pro…
Mount Vernon paused data center permits before receiving a single application, betting that six months is enough to write rules the city does not yet have, while a dissenting council member warned that demand could move to jurisdictions with fewer protections.
The easy framing is that this is either anti-tech obstruction or a permanent stand against data centers. What the council adopted was a temporary land-use measure with a legally required public hearing within 60 days.
For 180 days, Mount Vernon will stop accepting new data center permit applications while staff examine electricity, water, facility capacity, stormwater, sewer planning, and floodplain risk. The consequential decision will be the permanent ordinance that follows.
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