Knoxville City Council approved a resolution banning the development of data centers for one-year.
In June, Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon sent a letter to the Knoxville-Knox County Planning Committee saying she planned to introduce an ordinance to temporarily ban these data centers.
https://tennesseestar.com/policy/knoxville-bans-data-centers-for-one-year/zschmidt/2026/07/13/
