The data center fight in West Seneca, New York
As of October 25, 2026, West Seneca, New York has a data center moratorium in force (action taken Oct 5, 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
Town Board voted 4-0 for a one-year data center moratorium, per Spectrum News (Oct 6, 2026), which says it expires at the end of August 2027. That end date does not match a one-year term from October 2026, so no end date is recorded. Vote dated from 'Monday' in the Oct 6 article, so Oct 5 is inferred. No local law, resolution or minutes read; the instrument is not confirmed.
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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.
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 New York.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- New York briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Nearby in New York
- Tonawanda (Erie Co.) (12 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-08-03
- Newfield (Tompkins Co.) (117 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-07-09
- Lysander (Onondaga Co.) (126 mi) — Enactedexpires soon — 2026-11-06
- LeRay (173 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-08-01
- Canton (218 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-05-31
- St. Lawrence County (218 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
- Mohawk (Montgomery Co.) (222 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-02-13
- Highland (222 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-06-18
All 17 tracked actions in New York 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.