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Commissioners are choosing the strictest available instrument, one that would require a future board vote to unwind rather than expiring on its own.
Volusia can either accept the tax base a hyperscale data center brings or the grid, water, and ratepayer risk it imposes — and county commissioners are signaling they would rather forfeit the first than absorb the second.
The easy frames are 'anti-tech NIMBY' and 'ratepayers under attack.' Both skip the specific authority Florida's SB 484 handed to counties in May 2026 and the legal precedent set by Hill County's collapsed Texas ban.
A permanent county ordinance is a different instrument than a six-month moratorium, and Volusia is moving from the second toward the first while the state's political incentives point the same way.
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