By Alex Edwards | Colorado Politics
The Colorado Springs Planning Commission rejected appeals Thursday night against a proposed artificial-intelligence data center off Garden of the Gods Road.
The vote of the commission was 6-2, but residents who filed the appeals will have 10 days to challenge that decision.
While allowing Project Taurus to proceed, the commissioners set four conditions on the company, Raeden. These include:
- Requiring Raeden to report utility use data for the first 10 years of operation.
- Limiting utility use to a specified level of 50 megawatts, with the condition that if Raeden wants to exceed that, it must return to the commission for further approval.
- Raeden must furnish a corrected “single sheet” to the existing building plan.
- The company must modify its sound-monitoring plan to include “dB(C) monitoring in the same fashion as dB(A) monitoring and reporting.”
The vote came shortly before midnight after a session that began at 9 a.m. Thursday morning.
Known as Project Taurus, the data center has sparked significant community interest. More than 100 people signed up to speak in opposition to the data center while only 13 signed up to speak in support of it. Much of the opposition centered on environmental and noise concerns and power and water use.
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