Mariposa County has no data-center-specific zoning. A data center is an industrial use, belonging in the M-1 or M-2 manufacturing-industrial districts under Title 17. The entire county is unincorporated, so county zoning governs every parcel — there are no incorporated cities.
This Sierra-foothills county at Yosemite's gateway has no data centers and no ordinance naming them. Under Title 17, a server or computing facility is treated as an industrial use and must locate in the M-1 Light Manufacturing and Industrial Zone (Chapter 17.100) or M-2 Heavy Manufacturing and Industrial Zone (Chapter 17.104). Development in either district requires an adopted Commercial-Industrial-Manufacturing Plan under Chapter 17.84 — a discretionary site-plan approval by the Planning Commission — and utility-scale power, substation, and cooling infrastructure would also route the project through conditional-use-permit review under Chapter 17.112. Any discretionary approval triggers CEQA environmental review. Very little land here is zoned M-1 or M-2, so a real proposal would likely need a rezoning first.
Building a data center on land not zoned M-1 or M-2, or without required plan approval and permits, violates Title 17. The county can deny permits, issue stop-work orders, and pursue code enforcement until the parcel is rezoned or permitted.
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