The data center fight in Woodburn, Oregon
As of September 27, 2026, Woodburn, Oregon has a data center moratorium under consideration (action taken Jul 31, 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
City filed 45-day notice with Oregon DLCD signaling intent to consider temporary pause on data center development; statutory review period before council can adopt moratorium
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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.
Recent news
5 stories tracked since 2026-09-15 across 5 outlets. 5× Local officials are moving to pause or block the project. Most recent: “Woodburn puts data center development on 120-day moratorium” (Woodburn Independent, 2026-09-19).
- Woodburn puts data center development on 120-day moratorium
- Woodburn becomes latest Oregon city to set a moratorium for data centers
- Woodburn council passes moratorium on new data centers
- Woodburn pauses new data center projects for 120 days
- Why Woodburn voted to enact a moratorium on data centers in city
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 5 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 Oregon.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Oregon briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Nearby in Oregon
- Oregon (statewide) (17 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
- Salem (17 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
- Hillsboro (26 mi) — Enactedexpires soon — 2026-11-24
- Clackamas County (31 mi) — Proposedterm not documented
- Oregon (state land) (141 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-07-01
- Oregon (enterprise zone tax) (147 mi) — Enactedno fixed end — runs until a condition is met
All 7 tracked actions in Oregon 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.