The Direct Message Tension: Aurora residents are worried about the water, electricity and neighborhood impacts of new data centers. Aurora’s City Council voted 6-5 Monday night to reject a proposal that would have paused new data-center applications, with Mayor Mike Coffman casting the tiebreaking vote. Sentinel Colorado reported that the regulations would apply to future developments, not the five data centers already in the development process. Aurora also had nine established data centers at the time of the vote. The photograph shows a nuclear power plant in Hameln, Germany, not an Aurora data center.