The data center fight in Bellevue, Wisconsin
As of October 1, 2026, Bellevue, Wisconsin has a data center moratorium in force (action taken Aug 12, 2026; documented end date 2027-08-12).
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
12-month ban on data center development, 5-0. Board may extend it a further six months
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read 2026-08-23
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
7 stories tracked since 2026-08-13 across 6 outlets. 7× Local officials are moving to pause or block the project. Most recent: “Bellevue Village Board passes data center moratorium” (Green Bay Press Times, 2026-08-24).
- Bellevue Village Board passes data center moratorium
- Bellevue Village Board passes data center moratorium
- Bellevue approves one-year ban on data center development
- Bellevue approves one-year ban on data center development
- Bellevue Board approves year-long ban on data center development
- Bellevue approves data center moratorium
- Village of Bellevue bans data center development for 12 months
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 7 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 Wisconsin.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Wisconsin briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Nearby in Wisconsin
- Ashwaubenon (8 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-06-02
- Village of Wrightstown (14 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-06-16
- Manitowoc County (27 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-10-29
- Village of Greenville (32 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-06-08
- Door County (40 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-05-26
- Winnebago County (44 mi) — Enactedterm not documented
- Shawano County (48 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-06-24
- Sheboygan (49 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-07-23
All 35 tracked actions in Wisconsin 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.