A similar public meeting is slated for October 6.
While draft regulations will be decided by the council, Mayor Linda Gorton told WUKY she sees no room in the city for hyperscale data centers, but she recently visited an existing small scale operation.
"I'm really interested to know what the council's going to do about smaller ones because they hold servers that do things like MyChart, that many hospitals use," she said. "So it is an interesting question."
Still, Gorton has said she wants to see tight controls on centers of any size to ensure ratepayers aren't left on the hook for any extra costs. She said the council will face a number of questions regarding projects that fall below the hyperscale footprint.
"Do we need the small ones? If we do, we can't count on them for revenue or for jobs, and that's kind of a trade off when you're talking about putting things on land," Gorton added.
Gorton's opponent in the mayor's race, Raquel Carter, also supports a full ban on large-scale data centers, saying they will "only worsen the affordability crisis."
The city's moratorium on data center projects ends at the end of October.
Lexington's data center public meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the government center this coming Wednesday.