The data center fight in St. Joseph, Minnesota
As of September 27, 2026, St. Joseph, Minnesota has a data center moratorium in force.
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
Mayor Adam Scepaniak enacted 1-year moratorium on data centers in May 2026. City's industrial park is in a wetland area. City plans to research data centers and examine other communities' approaches during pause.
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read 2026-09-11
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 Minnesota.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Minnesota briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Nearby in Minnesota
- Waite Park (5 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-05-04
- Wright County (32 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-05-19
- Elk River (41 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-08-03
- Minnetrista (52 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-08-03
- Carver (65 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-04-06
- Minneapolis (65 mi) — Enactedexpires soon — 2026-11-21
- Eagan (77 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-02-17
- Washington County (78 mi) — Enactedfixed term, end date not recorded
All 18 tracked actions in Minnesota 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.