Trump's home county hits pause on data centers over environment and electric bill concerns

Palm Beach County — home to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago — passed a one-year moratoriam on the planning and construction of data centers as commissioners seek to conduct a thorough review of data centers’ impacts on the environment, noise pollution, and electric bills.The moratorium, passed on Thursday, comes just weeks after Trump said that communities that reject data centers would "end up being backwards and poor." Among the wealthiest counties in the country, P