The data center fight in Flagler County, Florida
Flagler 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.
Status today
1-year, unanimous on second reading. Unincorporated county only — municipalities including Palm Coast are unaffected. Amended to drop the 'large-scale' qualifier, so it covers all data center types
Source
read 2026-08-04
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Where the decision gets made
Board of County Commissioners — Land use, rezonings and the county budget across five districts. Flagler enacted a one-year data center moratorium (through Aug 2027).
Meets: 1st Monday 9:00 a.m. and 3rd Monday 5:00 p.m.
Where: Government Services Building #2, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, FL 32110
Public comment: Meetings are streamed live; see the board's Rules & Procedures and the meetings page for the public-comment process.
386-313-4001 · website
Read from the official page on 2026-08-07. Meeting details change — confirm before you go.
Who votes on it
| Name | Role | Phone | Recorded stance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leann Pennington | Chair | — | 386-313-4001 | not recorded |
| Kim Carney | Vice Chair | — | 386-313-4001 | not recorded |
| Andy Dance | Commissioner | — | 386-313-4001 | not recorded |
| Gregory Hansen | Commissioner | — | 386-313-4001 | not recorded |
| Pam Richardson | Commissioner | — | 386-313-4001 | not recorded |
From the locality's own roster page; "not recorded" means no public statement is on file, not neutrality.
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 Florida.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Florida briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Elsewhere in Florida
- Lakeland — Enactedexpires 2027-08-03
- Pasco County — Enactedexpires 2027-07-14
- Manatee County — Enacted
- Sarasota County — Enactedexpires 2027-07-08
- Citrus County — Enactedexpires 2027-05-26
- DeSoto County — Enactedexpires 2027-07-29
- Taylor County — Rejected
- Palm Beach County — Enactedexpires 2027-07-31
- Escambia County — Enacted
- Santa Rosa County — Enactedexpires 2027-07-23
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.