The City of Palm Springs has no data-center ordinance and no "data center" use category. Data centers site in the M-1 Service/Manufacturing, M-2 Manufacturing, and M-1-P Research-and-Development Park zones by Planning Commission similar-use determination or by conditional use permit for unlisted industrial uses.
Palm Springs Zoning Code Chapter 92 does not name "data center" as a use. A server facility locates in the City's industrial zones - M-1 Service/Manufacturing (Sec. 92.17.01), M-2 Manufacturing, and the M-1-P Planned Research and Development Park. Because the use is unlisted, the Planning Commission may approve it as a "similar use" by resolution under Sec. 94.01.00, or it proceeds as an unlisted manufacturing/service use requiring a conditional use permit under Sec. 92.17.01(D)(14). That permit is discretionary, triggering CEQA review and a public hearing. Unlike neighboring valley cities, Palm Springs has adopted no data-center moratorium and no dedicated ordinance.
Building or operating a data center outside an industrial zone, or without the required conditional use permit or Planning Commission approval, is a Zoning Code violation enforced by Code Compliance through stop-work orders, penalties, and abatement.
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