Planning staff will present current data-center regulations to the Board of County Commissioners on Oct. 5 and said commissioners could consider a moratorium if county rules are insufficient; board members noted state action could preempt local standards.

More than a dozen public commentators asked Pitt County commissioners to adopt a moratorium on AI/data-center construction and to ban or remove Flock license-plate–reading cameras, citing water use, noise, limited local jobs and Fourth Amendment privacy concerns.