# October 12, 2026 St Clair County Advisory Board of Health Workshop


**Body:** SCCountyIT
**Date:** October 11, 2026
**Jurisdiction:** SLED

**Tags:** Information Technology, Construction & Infrastructure, Digital Infrastructure, Physical Infrastructure


The St. Clair County Advisory Board of Health held a special workshop on October 12, 2026, focused on potential public-health and land-use impacts of hyperscale data centers. The county medical director and guest industrial hygienist discussed zoning considerations including facility scale and location, power sources and backup generators, noise, water use and discharge, stormwater, battery and fuel storage, emergency planning, and decommissioning. The guest recommended that municipalities consider updated noise standards, appropriate industrial classifications, design-stage controls, and decommissioning requirements. These were recommendations and discussion points, not adopted policy decisions.

No procurement activity, contract awards, vendor selections, spending decisions, or budget allocations were identified. The board’s next steps were to make workshop materials available in the November agenda packet and place discussion of further board action—potentially technical assistance for local zoning boards—on its October 21 agenda. The only motion recorded was to adjourn; no motion on data-center regulation was reported as passed.

**Source:** SCCountyIT