Oregon paused data center permits statewide, while Dover, Milwaukee, Elizabeth City and Lexington approved or extended moratoriums. Fort Wayne’s moratorium failed 4-4, and Google’s Van Buren Township site plan cleared 5-1.

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.