Legal and Property Rights Issues with Data Centers

Prof. Roger McEowen serves as the Professor of Agricultural Law and Taxation at Washburn University School of Law, located in Topeka, Kansas.

He has published in his blog an outline of legal and property rights issues associated with data centers, including:

• Negotiating Option Agreements and Purchase Contracts

• Electrical Demand and Utility Regulation

• Water Rights and Natural Resources

• Zoning, Land Use and Community Impacts

• Easements and Eminent Domain

• Tax, Estate Planning and Environmental Liability

Questions Every Landowner Should Ask

Professor McEowen outlines a few of the key questions that every landowner impacted by a data center should ask, including:

• Who is actually buying the property?

• Is this an option or a binding purchase contract?

• What happens if zoning is denied?

• Can I continue farming?

• Who owns the water rights?

• Who pays for environmental cleanup?

• Can the agreement be assigned?

• What happens if the project is abandoned?

Check out his highly informational blog by clicking Read More below.