Community briefings

Data center fights, town by town

A page for every one of the 863 tracked moratoriums and community actions across 49 states — status, sources, where the decision gets made, and what to do next.

Alabama (15)

Alaska (2)

Arizona (3)

Arkansas (9)

California (26)

Colorado (17)

Connecticut (5)

  • Groton — Expiredterm ran to 2023-06-21
  • Morris — Enactedexpires 2028-05-20
  • New Haven — Proposedterm not documented
  • Trumbull — Enactedexpires 2028-09-09
  • West Haven — Enactedexpires 2027-06-08

Delaware (4)

Florida (39)

Georgia (46)

Hawaii (1)

Idaho (3)

Illinois (18)

Indiana (23)

Iowa (21)

Kansas (19)

Kentucky (29)

Louisiana (3)

Maine (11)

Maryland (21)

Massachusetts (8)

Michigan (64)

Minnesota (18)

Mississippi (1)

  • Jackson — Enactedexpires 2027-02-12

Missouri (18)

Montana (4)

Nebraska (19)

Nevada (9)

New Hampshire (8)

New Jersey (75)

New Mexico (7)

New York (16)

North Carolina (44)

North Dakota (4)

Ohio (62)

Oklahoma (14)

Oregon (7)

Pennsylvania (19)

Rhode Island (3)

South Carolina (14)

South Dakota (3)

Tennessee (27)

Texas (23)

Utah (8)

Vermont (4)

Virginia (14)

Washington (19)

Wisconsin (35)

Wyoming (1)

  • Cheyenne — Rejectedterm not documented

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News coverage archived by the story tracker for places with no documented moratorium or ban on file yet — automated aggregation, not verified the way the tracker above is.

Alabama (2)

California (2)

Colorado (1)

Georgia (3)

Illinois (2)

Indiana (1)

Kansas (2)

Louisiana (1)

Michigan (1)

Mississippi (1)

Missouri (1)

New Jersey (2)

New York (1)

North Carolina (1)

Ohio (2)

Tennessee (1)

Texas (6)

Virginia (4)

West Virginia (2)

Wisconsin (5)

As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing

Illustrative rather than exhaustive — dozens of localities churn weekly, and this tracks the ones we have read a source for. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to the ordinance, the enacting body's own page, or a datable report of the vote, and were read on that date. Rows marked *unverified* came from bulk compilation and have not been checked against a primary source — the locality, the year, and the status may all be off. Verify one of those with the town clerk before citing it as precedent. **Expiry is derived, not asserted.** A row with a documented end date flips to *Expired* on its own once that date passes. A time-limited moratorium whose start date was never documented keeps showing as enacted — that is a known gap, not a claim that it is still in force. Moratoriums are also routinely extended, so an expiry date is the earliest it could have ended, not proof that it did.

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