Iowa county adopts strict zoning rules for data centers, but residents still worry
by Anika Jane Beamer, Inside Climate News from Ars Technica - All content on (#73YKX)
PALO, Iowa-There are two restaurants in Palo, not counting the chicken wings and pizza sold at the only gas station in town.
All three establishments, including the gas station, stand on the same half-mile stretch of First Street, an artery that divides the marshy floodplain of the Cedar River to the east from hundreds of acres of cornfields on the west.
During historic flooding in 2008, the Cedar River surged 10 feet above its previous record, cresting at 31 feet and wiping out homes and businesses well outside the floodplain.