The data center fight in Cass County, Nebraska
As of September 27, 2026, Cass County, Nebraska has a data center moratorium in force (action taken Aug 11, 2026; documented end date 2027-08-11).
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 moratorium on data center permits, 5-0 vote. Proposed regulations postponed to Sep 22
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read 2026-09-11
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
- Cass County residents raise questions about AI data center growth
- Cass County commissioners pause new data centers for year amid neighbor concerns
- Cass County residents push back on proposed data center amid water, farmland concerns
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
Board of Commissioners — County-level land use, 5-member board. Residents are pushing back on a proposed data center over water and farmland concerns.
Meets: Every other Tuesday, 8:00 a.m.
Where: Cass County Courthouse, Room 101, Plattsmouth, NE 68048
Public comment: See the board's published agenda for the public-comment process for a specific meeting.
402-296-9304 · website
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 Nebraska.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Nebraska briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Nearby in Nebraska
- Nehawka (11 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Otoe County (24 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-05-20
- Lancaster County (30 mi) — Withdrawnterm not documented
- Johnson County (36 mi) — Enactedterm not documented
- Seward County (50 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-06-30
- Gage County (53 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-04-05
- Butler County (56 mi) — Enactedfixed term, end date not recorded
- Hall County (123 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
All 19 tracked actions in Nebraska 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.