UPDATE--DATE CHANGE Councilman Brian Kazy Announces Three Upcoming Public Hearings on Data Centers
Sep 17, 2026
UPDATE--THE DATE FOR THE GUNNING REC CENTER PUBLIC MEETING HAS CHANGED TO WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7
CLEVELAND, OHIO—Today, September 16, 2026, Cleveland City Councilman Brian Kazy announced three upcoming public hearings about data centers and their potential impact on Cleveland. Councilman Kazy chairs the City Council’s Utilities Committee and also chairs the Data Center Working Group, formed after City Council enacted a three-month moratorium on issuing permits for data centers earlier this year.
The dates, times, and locations of the three hearings are:
Thursday, September 24
6:00-8:00 pm
Collinwood Rec Center
16300 Lakeshore Blvd.
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
5:00-8:00 pm
Cleveland City Hall
601 Lakeside Avenue
Tuesday, October 6
Wednesday, October 7
6:00-8:00 pm
Gunning Rec Center
16700 Puritas Avenue
Attendees may begin signing up to speak at the Collinwood and Gunning Rec Center events at 5:30 pm before the meetings. The public hearing at Cleveland City Hall will hear speakers on a rolling basis. At the rec center hearings, a brief update about data centers will precede the public comments.
“We were charged with compiling information that will help Cleveland City Council make informed decisions about data centers,” Councilman Kazy said. “We’ve worked with data center experts, compiled research, and visited data centers. Knowing what residents think about data centers is a critical part of what we need to understand.”
The Data Center Working Group includes data center experts, public utility representatives, policy staff, business and nonprofit leaders, residents, and activists. Councilman Kazy also emphasized the importance of Bibb Administration staff participating in the group.
“Data centers are here to stay and deciding how the city will handle them is too important for political gamesmanship,” Kazy said. “We have to do this together, and refusing to get ahead of one another will lead to a better solution.”
Kazy described, in general terms, the Administration’s task as figuring out how to manage data centers through zoning and other administrative means. City Council’s job is to figure out—with the Administration’s input—what the city should do about data centers and why.
“This work can’t be done separately,” Kazy said. “We can’t know how to implement data center policies without knowing what they are. And deciding what we want to do and why is pointless if we haven’t figured out how to implement those policies.”
The city’s three-month data center moratorium is scheduled to end on October 20, 2026. However, City Council can extend it if needed.