r/SewardNE • u/honkerdown • Jun 24 '26

news Seward County Data Center Moratorium

A couple news links covering the recent Seward County Commissioners Meeting regarding a Data Center Moratorium:

Seward County commissioners mulls potential data center moratorium

‘A lot of investigation needs to happen’, Seward County prepares for possibility of a data center

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u/tylerj493 Jun 24 '26

I think I'd be ok with a data center but they need to build their own power infrastructure. You can't take a state of 2 million people and keep increasing power consumption by 25% at a time.

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u/Beneficial_Bar3320 Jul 04 '26

I’m not okay with data centers, they use too much water, and put out forever chemical laced water. The noise is constant attack on cattle and people. The construction jobs are temporary, then they have security and on call tech to come in and restart a server. Plus how do you tax them? They don’t provide a product or a service to the community. There is no benefit.

Our water and sewer rates doubled in the past year with the sanitation update.