Climate Change

“All right, Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order calling for a temporary pause on new data centers. You know, Christian, a lot of this is going to take counsel action. The mayor and council, not always seeing eye to eye, but do you think just given the wave of pushbacks we've seen against data centers that, you know, from residents, from constituents, that might help get them all, you know, singing out of the same hymn book. Yeah, I mean, this is a big deal. I mean, when you go to the suburbs and you see that these residents have been fighting against these data centers, a lot of my colleagues have been covering this over the past several.”

Johnson signed an executive order to pause new data centers.

“There's been such a push against them that it seems the political wins are definitely changing in favor of pausing them or turning, at least making sure we're regulating them in a way that is safe for the neighborhoods around them before allowing future ones to go forward. And so that's exactly what Mayor Brandon Johnson has been proposing. He's called on city council to enact a pause, a moratorium on development of data centers until the city works out a permanent regulation scheme. And he's also put a few other kind of stopgap temporary regulations in place.”

Johnson called for a moratorium on data center development.

“Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is using his executive order pen to tighten rules on data centers. My colleague Mariah Wolfel reports the order is meant to be a placeholder as the City Council debates more permanent oversight and regulations on data centers. It states Chicago's current laws are outdated and don't account for the significant terrain on resources like water and electricity that data centers pose. The order directs the city's planning commissioner to conduct closer reviews of new data centers.”

The order is a placeholder for more permanent regulations.

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Policy for co-management of state-owned lands with tribes.

“Republican candidates right now who are taking this opportunity to point to Governor Gretchen Whitmer's very strong support of data centers in the state and the fact that she was at the groundbreaking for the Celine Township. mega data center that has so many people up in arms and she was throwing a shovel into the ground and and smiling and posing with members of big tech yeah and and and sort of the pushing it through quickly”

Gretchen Whitmer's support for data centers criticized by Republicans.