You are being heard!

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports today that Kentucky State Legislators are backpedaling, and may seek to repeal all or some of the sales tax incentives they enacted over the last two years to attract new hyperscale data centers.    Combined with the passage of Louisville Metro Council's 180-day data center moratorium last week, it's been a good couple of weeks for all of us who have expressed our opinions on this issue.   Your voices are being heard!

But we're not done..... Not by a longshot.   We now have roughly six months to ensure the Louisville Metro Council  enacts a new data center ordinance that provides the meaningful protections we all want.   And the current draft of the Louisville ordinance falls far short of that.   A number of Louisville environmental and community groups have called on Metro Council to scrap the current language and to start over using a model ordinance drafted by attorneys at the  Kentucky Resources Council (KRC) as a guide.  Here's a link to the KRC model ordinance:     https://kyrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/KRC-Model-Data-Center-Zoning-Ordinance-Version-1.4.pdf

If you'd like to read an analysis of how the current Louisville ordinance falls short of the KRC model, please visit this page:    https://kyrc.org/louisville-releases-revised-data-center-rules-public-input-still-needed/

If you'd like to get involved, please contact your Metro Council person and tell them you think it's best if Louisville discards its current draft language and uses the KRC model ordinance as a guide in developing rules that provide meaningful protections for Louisville citizens.     Keep talking about this.   It works!