Tensions ran high in Palm Beach County on Wednesday as commissioners met for a zoning hearing on the controversial “ Project Tango ” — a proposed 200-acre hyperscale AI data-center complex planned near Loxahatchee and Wellington, in the western part of the county.

After hours of emotional public comment from more than 50 residents worried about nonstop low-frequency hums, heavy water consumption and long-term environmental impacts, commissioners ultimately hit the brakes.

The commissioners voted unanimously, 7-0, to postpone the data center application until the April 23, 2026, zoning meeting and to give time for more impact studies, despite high demand from the community to terminate the project altogether.

The project, which was originally approved in 2016 as a regular data-center —

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