Beltline Energy partner Ryan Sanders, seated in the center, listens during the public comment portion of an aldermanic meeting at Pacific City Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. Beltline Energy presented information about a data center they’d like to build on land just south of Pacific. Residents packed the room, and were overwhelmingly against the data center.
David Carson, Post-Dispatch
Jennifer-Ryan Barker holds up a sign expressing her opposition to a proposed data center being discussed during a special meeting of the Pacific Board of Aldermen at Pacific City Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. Also pictured is Keith Ketcherside, seated to the right with a beard, whose property abuts Crooked Creek Farm, the suggested site for a 500-acre data center near Pacific.
David Carson, Post-Dispatch
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Planning Director Don Roe said Mayor Cara Spencer’s office had no expectation that ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´â€™ planning commission would re-vote on data center rules.
Editorial: Secrecy and behind-the-scenes political pressure around data center public policy decisions is a sure-fire way to lose whatever pub…
Beltline Energy partner Ryan Sanders, seated in the center, listens during the public comment portion of an aldermanic meeting at Pacific City Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. Beltline Energy presented information about a data center they’d like to build on land just south of Pacific. Residents packed the room, and were overwhelmingly against the data center.
Jennifer-Ryan Barker holds up a sign expressing her opposition to a proposed data center being discussed during a special meeting of the Pacific Board of Aldermen at Pacific City Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. Also pictured is Keith Ketcherside, seated to the right with a beard, whose property abuts Crooked Creek Farm, the suggested site for a 500-acre data center near Pacific.
