Escambia Commission Bans Data Centers; Barry Says No Projects Ever Under Consideration In District 5The county commission voted unanimously Thursday night to ban data centers in the unincorporated areas of Escambia County. “Data center facilities are not identified as a permitted or conditional principal use in any zoning district,” the resolution states. The ordinance to be considered by the board on August 6 is expected to strengthen the data center ban, and clear up an ambiguity. Commissioners are expected to tweak ordinance language to ban data centers smaller than 50 megawatts, which is the state’s threshold for a “large-scale data center.” Commissioners were unified in their position against data centers in Escambia County.