The data center fight in Davie County, North Carolina
Davie County 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.
Unverified. This row has not been read against a primary source — treat it as a lead to check with the locality, not a fact to cite at a hearing.
Status today
1-year data center moratorium
Unverified
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
- Davie County passes one-year data center moratorium
- Davie County leaders consider data center moratorium as residents voice opposition - WXII
- Davie County residents express demands for data center moratorium
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 — Zoning, land use and county budget across a five-member board. Residents have asked the board to consider a data-center moratorium; no vote confirmed yet.
Meets: See the county's published agendas & minutes page.
Where: Administrative Office Building, 123 South Main Street, Mocksville, NC 27028
Public comment: See the board's published agenda 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 North Carolina.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- North Carolina briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Elsewhere in North Carolina
- Gates County — Enactedexpires 2026-12-17
- Brevard — Expiredterm ran to 2026-06-23
- Clay County — Enacted
- Canton — Enactedexpires 2027-02-11
- Chatham County — Enactedexpires 2027-02-11
- Kings Mountain — Enactedexpires soon — 2026-08-25
- Boone — Enactedexpires 2027-03-23
- Apex — Enactedexpires 2027-04-27
- Orange County — Enactedexpires 2027-04-21
- Rowan County — Enactedexpires 2027-05-04
- Swain County — Enactedexpires 2027-04-21
- Watauga County — Enactedexpires 2027-04-21
- Madison County — Expiredterm ran to 2024-06-13
- Clyde — Enacted
- Holly Springs — Enactedexpires 2027-06-16
- Charlotte — Proposed
- Durham — Enactedexpires 2027-06-15
- Harnett County — Enactedexpires 2027-05-03
- Cumberland County — Enactedexpires 2026-12-15
- Fayetteville — Rejected
- Greensboro — Proposed
- Farmville — Enactedexpires 2027-08-03
- Waxhaw — Enactedexpires 2027-08-11
- Statesville — Proposed
- Asheville — Enactedexpires 2027-06-17
- Wendell — Enactedexpires 2026-12-31
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.