The data center fight in Salix, Iowa
Salix has a proposed 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
1-year moratorium on data centers, formal vote scheduled Aug 12, 2026. Council voted 3-2 (Jul 8) to advance the concept after 100+ residents debated a MidAmerican Energy data center on ~900 acres of annexed farmland.
Source
read 2026-08-12
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
- Salix city council to consider data center moratorium
- Salix City Council postponing meeting due to threats
- Salix city council to consider data center moratorium
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 3 headlines archived.
Where the decision gets made
City Council — Zoning and land use (Mayor + 5 council members). MidAmerican Energy proposed a data center on ~900 acres of farmland annexed in Apr 2026. Council voted 3-2 (Jul 8, 2026) to advance a 1-year moratorium concept; formal moratorium vote scheduled Aug 12, 2026.
Meets: 2nd Wednesday of the month, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Council Chambers behind City Hall, 317 Tipton Street, Salix, IA 51052
Public comment: Public hearings held for zoning/annexation matters. Contact the Clerk for details.
salixiowa@gmail.com · 712-946-5645 · website
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 Iowa.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Iowa briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Elsewhere in Iowa
- Dubuque County — Enactedexpires 2027-05-26
- Linn County — Enactedexpires 2028-01-01
- Clinton — Rejected
- Marshalltown — Proposed
- Johnson County — Enactedexpires 2026-11-08
- Linn County — Enactedexpires 2028-01-01
- Dubuque County — Enactedexpires 2027-05-26
- Woodbury County — Enactedexpires 2027-06-23
- Plymouth County — Enactedexpires 2027-06-16
- Sioux County — Enactedexpires 2027-06-16
- Ida County — Enacted
- Madison County — Enactedexpires 2027-07-22
- Shelby County — Enactedexpires 2027-07-01
- Clarke County — Enacted
- Jefferson County — Enacted
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.