The data center fight in Nassau County, Florida
As of September 27, 2026, Nassau County, Florida has a data center moratorium in force (action taken 2026-06-08; documented end date 2027-06-08).
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
Board of County Commissioners adopted Ordinance 2026-044, a 12-month moratorium on acceptance, review, or approval of applications for development permits, rezoning, or site plans for data centers, data processing, data mining, or cryptocurrency mining; county established a Fact-Finding Committee on Data Center Development; prompted by NextNRG's 1,600-acre lease option near Jacksonville International Airport
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read 2026-09-07
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
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.
Nearby in Florida
- Clay County (44 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-06-23
- St. Johns County (53 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
- Putnam County (69 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-09-08
- Flagler County (84 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-08-03
- Madison County (98 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-07-22
- Marion County (101 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
- Levy County (110 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-09-30
- Taylor County (113 mi) — Rejectedterm not documented
All 39 tracked actions in Florida 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.