The data center fight in Champaign County, Illinois
As of October 1, 2026, Champaign County, Illinois has a data center moratorium in force (action taken Apr 23, 2026; documented end date 2027-04-23).
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 centers >=10,000 sq ft on unincorporated land. Board reversed committee's 9-month recommendation after hearing from dozens of residents. 100+ attendees. Task force created
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read 2026-08-13
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
- Champaign County residents share concerns about data centers and a shortage of skilled nursing beds
- Champaign County officials say they can’t ban data centers. But residents want tighter restrictions
- Bipartisan group of Champaign County Board members thwart vote on home rule, blocking a plan to ban data centers
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 3 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 Illinois.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Illinois briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Nearby in Illinois
- Macon County (45 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
- Mattoon (46 mi) — Enactedno fixed end — runs until a condition is met
- Bloomington (48 mi) — Enactedexpires soon — 2026-11-26
- Normal (49 mi) — Enactedexpires soon — 2026-11-30
- Logan County (62 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-05-19
- Woodford County (69 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-02-18
- Bourbonnais (72 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-01-31
- Effingham (73 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-06-02
All 18 tracked actions in Illinois 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.