Alpine County has no data-center-specific zoning. A data center is an industrial use and belongs in the IND Industrial Zone under Title 18, Chapter 18.48. The county has no incorporated cities, so county zoning governs every parcel — the entire county is unincorporated.
California's least-populous county, roughly 1,200 residents in the high Sierra around Markleeville, has no data centers and no ordinance naming them. Under Title 18, Chapter 18.48, a server or computing facility is treated as an industrial use and must locate in the IND Industrial Zone, which permits manufacturing and warehousing. A large data center's utility-scale power, substation, and generator infrastructure would route the project through discretionary use-permit review under Section 18.48.030, and any discretionary approval triggers CEQA environmental review. Almost no land in the county is zoned IND, so a real proposal would first need a rezoning. There are no cities here — Chapter 18.48 applies countywide.
Building a data center on land not zoned IND, or without a required use permit, is a zoning violation. The county can deny building permits, issue stop-work orders, and pursue code enforcement until the parcel is rezoned or permitted.
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