The data center fight in Plain City, Ohio
As of October 1, 2026, Plain City, Ohio has a data center moratorium under consideration (action taken Aug 10, 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
Council shelved its draft zoning rules — the village attorney warned the Big Darby Creek setback might not survive a challenge — and scheduled an Aug 10 vote on a 6-month moratorium. No outlet has reported the outcome; do not cite this as enacted
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read 2026-08-23
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
- Plain City Village Council enacts one-year data center development ban
- Plain City Village Council enacts one-year data center development ban
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 2 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 Ohio.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Ohio briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Nearby in Ohio
- Jerome Township (8 mi) — Expiredterm ran to 2026-06-01
- Ohio (ballot measure) (18 mi) — Rejectedterm not documented
- Grove City (19 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-06-01
- Jackson Township (Franklin Co.) (20 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-05-12
- Ohio (tax exemptions) (29 mi) — Enactedno fixed end — runs until a condition is met
- Springfield (31 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-01-14
- Ashville (32 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-01-02
- Scioto Township (33 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-03-06
All 62 tracked actions in Ohio are on the state page.
As of August 2026 (2m 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.