The data center fight in Coachella, California
Coachella has an active data center moratorium on this tracker. 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
45-day moratorium on new data-center applications, adopted unanimously alongside terminating the city's agreement with Stronghold Power over a 400+-acre, six-data-center campus; extended Jul 9, 2026 as the council moves toward a permanent ban. Treat any specific expiry as unconfirmed — the council was actively extending it as of this writing.
Source
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
8 stories tracked since 2026-05-28 across 4 outlets. 8× Local officials are moving to pause or block the project. Most recent: “Coachella City Council Approves Ordinance Banning Data Centers” (The Riverside Record, 2026-08-13).
- Coachella City Council Approves Ordinance Banning Data Centers
- Coachella inches toward ban on data centers with final vote expected at the end of the month
- Coachella residents gather in support of a ban on data centers
- Coachella decides to ban data centers permanently
- Coachella Approves Data Center Moratorium, Ends Stronghold Power Agreement
- Coachella City Council Floats Moratorium on Data Centers as Community Opposition Grows
- Coachella considers moratorium on data centers as community pushes back against proposed tech campus
- Coachella council to vote on data center moratorium amid public outcry
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 8 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 California.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- California briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Elsewhere in California
- Imperial County — Enactedexpires 2027-06-16
- Desert Hot Springs — Enactedexpires 2028-06-17
- Monterey Park — Enacted
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.