Data center policy is shifting at every level: Virginia’s Sen. Russet Perry proposed a three-year statewide moratorium, Rutherford County, Tennessee and Guilford County, North Carolina weighed pauses, Millington adopted one, and Mason County, Kentucky approved a $15 billion Meta campus. READ MORE.

Pauses and pushback are reshaping data center policy: Oregon’s governor froze pollution permits for new facilities until July, Milwaukee approved a one-year moratorium, Fort Wayne rejected one, and Lowndes County, Alabama approved agreements for Cloverleaf’s Project Red Clay.

Moratoriums and bans keep spreading: Dover became Delaware’s first city to pause data centers for 18 months, Elizabeth City, North Carolina approved a similar pause, Lexington, Kentucky capped facility size and energy use, and Pataskala, Ohio voters will decide a charter ban Nov. 3. READ MORE.