The data center fight in Aurora, Colorado
As of October 1, 2026, Aurora, Colorado rejected a data center moratorium (action taken Aug 10, 2026).
Status is derived, not stored — a pause with a documented end date flips to Expired on its own — and the source is right next to the claim.
Status today
Emergency resolution for a 6-month moratorium on data-center construction failed 6-5, Mayor Mike Coffman casting the tiebreaking vote against; council instead passed a resolution to develop data-center standards (water/zoning) within 35 days, without a pause.
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read 2026-08-12
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
13 stories tracked since 2026-02-18 across 12 outlets. 5× A community is pushing back on a nearby data center. 3× Local officials are moving to pause or block the project. Most recent: “Aurora residents gather to share data center concerns” (Denver Gazette, 2026-09-24).
- Aurora residents gather to share data center concerns
- Residents express concerns about data centers at meeting in Aurora
- Residents express concerns about data centers at meeting in Aurora
- Residents express concerns about data centers at meeting in Aurora
- Aurora residents say new data center regulations aren’t enough
- Aurora decides to regulate, but not ban, data centers
- Aurora city council takes first steps toward data center regulations after rejecting construction ban
- Aurora City Council rejects data center moratorium, moves forward with new regulations
- Aurora City Council rejects data center moratorium, approves new rules, water regs
- Aurora City Council rejects six-month data center ban as it pursues new regulations
- Aurora City Council rejects data center moratorium, approves new rules, water regs
- Aurora residents say data center noise is disrupting daily life despite mitigation efforts
+1 more on the story tracker.
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 13 headlines archived.
What to do next
- Questions to ask at the hearing — force specific answers onto the record.
- Estimate the impact — electricity, water, and rate pressure for any facility size in Colorado.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Colorado briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Nearby in Colorado
- Commerce City (8 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
- Denver (9 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-05-21
- Thornton (12 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
- Arvada (15 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
- Broomfield (19 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-12-02
- Lochbuie (22 mi) — Enactedexpires 2031-07-21
- Jefferson County (24 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-03-19
- Longmont (34 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
All 17 tracked actions in Colorado are on the state page.
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.
Part of the U.S. data center moratorium tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0.