As San Antonio prepares to add more guardrails for where data centers can go in the Alamo City, the question now is how exactly the regulations will work.

At a Wednesday council meeting, staff briefed council members on two options, which boiled down to having a defined set of restrictions or making each data center project get council approval on a case-by-case basis.

Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones also tossed in a third option of her own that would also require council approval for new data centers, as well as requirements like replacing double the greenspace eliminated during construction.