The data center fight in La Crosse, Wisconsin
La Crosse 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
18-month moratorium approved by Common Council, matching the county's Jun 18 moratorium. Covers facilities >1 PB or >2 MW. Plan commission advanced it Aug 3
Source
read 2026-08-15
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
- La Crosse approves temporary data center moratorium
- La Crosse Common Council approves 18-month moratorium on data center development
- La Crosse Common Council approves 18-month moratorium on data center development
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 Wisconsin.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Wisconsin briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Elsewhere in Wisconsin
- Manitowoc County — Enactedexpires 2027-10-29
- La Crosse County — Enactedexpires 2027-12-18
- Dodge County — Enactedexpires 2028-02-10
- Madison — Enactedexpires 2027-01-13
- Town of Cassville — Enacted
- Manitowoc County — Enacted
- Dane County — Enactedexpires 2027-12-04
- Village of Wrightstown — Enactedexpires 2027-06-16
- Superior — Enactedexpires 2027-06-17
- Wisconsin — Proposed
- Bellevue — Enactedexpires 2027-08-13
- Chippewa County — Enactedexpires 2027-08-12
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.