TALLAHASSEE, Florida — The state Senate on Thursday passed legislation regulating data centers and sent it to the House, where that chamber’s version advanced from its final committee hearing.
Details: The Senate amended the bill Thursday to require economic development agencies to disclose proposed data centers while the company behind them is kept confidential for 12 months.
Senators had raised concerns that under a related Senate bill, public officials would not have been allowed to tell residents when a data center was being planned nearby.
“That has to be known, the data center is coming to the jurisdiction,” state Sen. Bryan Avila (R-Hialeah Gardens), the bill sponsor, said on the Senate floor. “The exact location or footprint, that is something that is not [disclosed].”
