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The council is asking for a pause anyway, which signals either that the existing framework isn't sized for the current wave of applications or that the council doesn't trust it to hold.
Those figures describe the projected cost of the exemption program as a whole, not the amount Amazon itself is expected to save.
Lida Xing, a palaeontologist at the China University of Geosciences in Beijing, looked closer and saw feathers.
The permit, USR26-0019, is the first data center approval to go through the county's new Use by Special Review process for data centers.
The fuller reporting record comes from the Kentucky Lantern.
The pause covers a jurisdiction that has not yet received a single data center application.
On September 11, the Chatham County Board of Commissioners approved a 155-day moratorium covering unincorporated parts of the county.
Savannah City Council voted unanimously on August 27 to impose a 155-day moratorium on large-scale data centers within city limits.
The order does not stop private data center development.
Governor Mike DeWine paused new data center tax agreements in May 2026, and said in August the freeze will remain until he leaves office.
