The data center fight in Palm Springs, California
As of November 12, 2026, Palm Springs, California has a data center moratorium in force (action taken Aug 26, 2026).
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
45-day pause from Aug 26, 2026, unanimous. Council extended it on Sep 30 to the longest term California law allows, two years in total, per NBC Palm Springs. Exact end date not published in the article read.
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read 2026-10-11
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
9 stories tracked since 2026-08-12 across 5 outlets. 9× Local officials are moving to pause or block the project. Most recent: “Palm Springs Extends Data Center Moratorium To 2 Years” (The Riverside Record, 2026-10-05).
- Palm Springs Extends Data Center Moratorium To 2 Years
- Palm Springs City Council Extends Data Center Moratorium
- Palm Springs votes to extend data center moratorium
- Palm Springs City Council approves extending data center moratorium
- Palm Springs extends data center moratorium to 2028
- Palm Springs City Council considers extending data center moratorium
- Palm Springs City Council approves temporary data center moratorium
- Palm Springs joins other valley cities in temporary ban on data centers
- Hear why Palm Springs area locals support a data center ban
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 9 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 California.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- California briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Nearby in California
- Desert Hot Springs (9 mi) — Enactedexpires 2028-06-17
- Indio (20 mi) — Expiredterm ran to 2026-10-16
- Coachella (24 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Lake Elsinore (46 mi) — Enactedfixed term, end date not recorded
- Escondido (58 mi) — Expiredterm ran to 2026-10-12
- Calipatria (77 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Baldwin Park (83 mi) — Enactedfixed term, end date not recorded
- El Monte (87 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-02-02
All 31 tracked actions in California are on the state page.
As of August 2026 (3m ago) · 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.