data centers

Minneapolis lines up a moratorium vote, Calipatria weighs an unusually long five-year pause, and Urbana moves to undo the zoning that let data centers in.

Hill County becomes the first Texas county to pause data center construction, while Harford and Seattle weigh their own bans and a Lebanon County developer walks away from a $1.7 billion project.

Charlotte advances a 150-day moratorium; Red Oak approves 830 acres for Compass despite packed opposition; and Jay County sets some of the strictest setback requirements in the country.

Florida signs its first data center regulation into law; Andover Township reverses course after a viral police confrontation; and a North Carolina developer sues over a moratorium it says violated its vested rights.

This week on Data Centers: Seattle announces an emergency moratorium after five proposed data centers would demand 369 megawatts from the city grid. Durham passes a 60-day moratorium. Smithfield, RI bans data centers in every zoning district.

Montgomery County councilmember introduces six-month data center permit freeze; Maricopa County approves $10 billion Project Baccara over public opposition; Colleton County advances moratorium after winter firestorm.

New Hampshire House committee advances bill to strip towns of data center-specific regulation; SpaceX named in $119 billion Grimes County public notice; Bulloch County extends moratorium and begins drafting an outright ban.

Durham passes 60-day data center ban with sights on a longer moratorium; Meta assembles $13 billion in financing for its El Paso campus; Van Wert holds public hearing on a $10 billion Thor Equities data center that's quadrupled in scope.

Seattle councilmembers introduce emergency moratorium after five proposed mega data centers surface; Social Circle, GA clears the way for 450-acre data center complex; moratoriums pile up in Ohio, Minnesota, and Michigan.