# Santa Cruz County supes defeat proposal to give voters final say over data centers

> Source: <https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/09/16/santa-cruz-county-ai-data-centers/>
> Published: 2026-09-16 15:00:00+00:00

Data centers in unincorporated Santa Cruz County? Just don’t ask the voters. That was the majority decision Tuesday by the county Board of Supervisors, which voted 3-2 to beat back a proposal to let voters weigh in on any artificial intelligence data centers that could be built in the future. While there are not currently […]

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