The data center fight in Caddo Parish, Louisiana
As of September 27, 2026, Caddo Parish, Louisiana rejected a data center moratorium (action taken 2026-09-01).
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
Commissioners voted 6-4 (2 absent) against referring a proposed moratorium (Resolution 53) to the Planning & Zoning Commission. The moratorium would have paused data center construction in commercially/industrially zoned unincorporated areas.
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read 2026-09-06
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
The project on the table
AWS Caddo Parish — In review
Operator: Amazon · Owner: Amazon
$12B multi-site data center investment in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
Next: An application is in the record. Ask the planning office for the next hearing date and request formal notice.
Latest in the record
- 2026-08-18 — At a Caddo Parish Commission work session, commissioners clashed over data center oversight resolutions; an attempt to fast-track failed 8-3 and commissioners voted 11-0 to refer both measures to committee. Parish attorney warned the proposed moratorium cannot legally be enacted by resolution. · source
- 2026-08-18 — AWS announced a third data center campus for Shreveport/Resilient Technology Park, a $6 billion addition bringing total NW Louisiana investment to $18 billion; adds 210 direct jobs (up to 750 across all campuses) plus up to $400M in public water infrastructure. · source
- 2026-08-18 — Shreveport civic and business leaders characterized the additional $6 billion Amazon investment as a milestone for the region. · source
- 2026-08-17 — Commissioner John-Paul Young introduced Resolution 53 proposing a two-year moratorium on new data center developments, expansions, and tax incentive agreements in unincorporated Caddo Parish; would not affect the AWS campus already under construction. · source
- 2026-08-12 — Reporting detailed a proposal to freeze new data center tax breaks in Caddo Parish while officials study long-term fiscal and infrastructure effects. · source
- 2026-07-30 — Amazon and STACK held informational briefings for Bossier and Shreveport officials including public safety representatives. · source
Full dated timeline on the project tracker.
Recent news
- Caddo Parish commissioners to revisit proposed data center moratorium
- Caddo Parish commissioner seeks moratorium on data center tax incentives
- Caddo Parish residents raise water, wildlife concerns over proposed data center
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 3 headlines archived.
Where the decision gets made
Parish Commission — Zoning and land use across 12 single-member districts. Residents have raised water and wildlife concerns over a proposed data center.
Meets: Regular session the Thursday after the 1st and 3rd Tuesday; work session the preceding Monday.
Where: Caddo Parish, Shreveport, LA
Public comment: See the commission's published agendas for the public-comment process for a specific meeting.
Read from the official page on 2026-08-12. Meeting details change — confirm before you go.
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 Louisiana.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Louisiana briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Nearby in Louisiana
- St. Charles Parish (275 mi) — Rejectedterm not documented
- New Orleans (288 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-01-28
All 3 tracked actions in Louisiana are on the state page.
As of August 2026 · 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.