At the September 1 regular meeting for Milford Township's Board of Supervisors, officials held a public hearing on additions to its preexisting data center ordinance to further cover some pertinent topics that the supervisors felt were important. The adjustments to the ordinance include considerations for high-density computing systems, data centers, and data center accessory uses and structures in Planned Industrial districts.

            While there have not yet been any applications for a data center in Milford Township, the supervisors are interested in comprehensively covering all the concerns associated with data centers should any developer seek to construct one in Milford Township; hence, these amendments to update the requirements.

            There was no voting on the amendments, but Chairman Christian Haberle proposed three items on behalf of the supervisors: general language clarification, the requirement of a closed-loop cooling system, and the creation of three different tiers of data centers based on size in order to differentiate between them.

            In addition to the supervisor's proposed changes, many public comments have been received by Milford Township, and all of these comments have been considered by the supervisors. More public comments were ...