The Oakland City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend its data center moratorium until next October. The 10-month-and-15-day extension is designed to give city staff enough time to research and develop new regulations and development standards for any future requests to build data centers in Oakland. In October, the City Council passed an “urgency ordinance” […]
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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
