The data center fight in LeRay, New York
As of September 27, 2026, LeRay, New York has a data center moratorium in force (action taken 2026-08-01; documented end date 2027-08-01).
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
Town board approved one-year moratorium on data centers after public hearing. Prompted by a broker marketing hundreds of acres for a data center near Watertown/Fort Drum.
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read 2026-09-06
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
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Where the decision gets made
Town Board — Zoning and land use. A real-estate broker has been marketing hundreds of acres in the town for a data center; the board agreed to widen a proposed moratorium to 12 months after resident pushback, with a public hearing and vote set for Aug 13, 2026 — confirm the outcome before citing a status.
Meets: 2nd Thursday of the month (except Nov.), 4:00 p.m.
Where: Municipal Office Building, 8650 LeRay Street, Evans Mills, NY 13637
Public comment: See the town'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 New York.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- New York briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Nearby in New York
- St. Lawrence County (48 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
- Canton (48 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-05-31
- Potsdam (58 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
- Lysander (Onondaga Co.) (68 mi) — Enactedexpires soon — 2026-11-06
- Mohawk (Montgomery Co.) (104 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-02-13
- Perth (Fulton Co.) (106 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-06-04
- Newfield (Tompkins Co.) (124 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-07-09
- New York (statewide) (141 mi) — Enactedno fixed end — runs until a condition is met
All 16 tracked actions in New York are on the state page.
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.