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The unanimous August 24 vote followed a grassroots push from the Carlton County Land Stewards, who worked three separate meetings before the Board scheduled the hearing.
A rural Minnesota county with no zoning standards for data centers is watching a Google campus advance one county over, and its residents asked for a pause before its code got tested by a hyperscaler.
The easy framing is anti-tech NIMBYism or pro-development boosterism, depending on the audience. Neither captures what the ordinance actually does.
Carlton County has bought itself twelve months to write zoning rules for a land use its code never anticipated, and the February 2027 progress report is where the real standards will get set.
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The 3-2 council decision came after the original August meeting was postponed when death threats appeared on social media targeting local officials.
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