The data center fight in Jeffersonville, Indiana
Jeffersonville 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 pause, 8-0; does not affect the Meta facility at River Ridge Commerce Center, which operates under federal/state military land-use authority
Source
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
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 1 headline 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 Indiana.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Indiana briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Elsewhere in Indiana
- Merrillville — Enactedexpires 2027-05-31
- Indianapolis — Proposed
- Warrick County — Enactedexpires 2027-02-07
- Boone County — Enactedexpires 2027-06-15
- Grant County — Enactedexpires 2028-03-16
- Fayette County — Enactedexpires 2027-05-18
- Starke County — Enactedexpires 2026-12-31
- Marshall County — Enacted
- Cass County — Enacted
- Dearborn County — Enactedexpires 2027-02-25
- Putnam County — Enactedexpires 2026-11-17
- White County — Enacted
- Pulaski County — Enactedexpires 2027-02-02
- Fulton County — Enactedexpires 2027-03-03
- Miami County — Enacted
- New Albany — Enactedexpires 2027-07-16
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.