Roswell, Georgia just put a 90-day emergency halt on new data center projects while it rewrites the rules.
The city is explicitly targeting zoning, land use, and the environmental and utility load of data centers, which are all pressure points for large AI builds.
This kind of pause is a warning sign for AI operators that local permitting, not just power and GPUs, is becoming a hard constraint.
I read this as a signal that municipalities are getting more aggressive about controlling high-density compute, especially where grid strain and noise are already concerns.
Operators planning GPU-heavy AI deployments in suburban or secondary markets should expect more 60–90 day moratoria like this while cities catch up.
The story is short but worth a look as an example of the local friction that can delay AI data center timelines.
Source: Roswell approves temporary moratorium on new data centers | FOX 5 Atlanta
