AURORA, Ill. (WLS) -- Aurora's City Council is holding a special meeting Thursday. City leaders are discussing a temporary moratorium on both new data centers and warehouses.

They were meant to be a boom for the town's bank account, but they've become a drain on certain resources.

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After concerns about noise, traffic and environmental issues, there could be a moratorium on data centers in the the city of Aurora.

"We were told years ago they would be great ," Aurora resident Lori Evans said.

It happened Thursday afternoon at a special meeting, which was sandwiched between the Aurora City Council's finance committee meeting and the regularly scheduled city council meeting Thursday night.

The town's alderpeople took a vote to enact

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