Data Center Risk Rankings

On June 18, 2026 Michigan Senate Democrats introduced a seven-bill package to regulate data centers (sponsors include Sens. Kevin Hertel, Erika Geiss, Mallory McMorrow, and Darrin Camilleri). Provisions: permitting fo...

Project Cannoli is a Google hyperscale data center campus proposed near I-94 and Haggerty Road in Van Buren Township (Wayne County), MI, requiring 1 GW of power. Google was confirmed as the company behind it in March ...

An Ohio statewide constitutional-amendment initiative to ban data centers larger than 25 MW is gathering signatures (needs 413,488 valid by July 1, 2026) for the November 2026 ballot. [Validation 2026-06-21: outcome -...

Urbana City Council voted 6-1 to approve a 12-month moratorium on data centers over 10,000 sq ft, halting a proposed 460,000 sq ft Thor Equities facility off Routes 55 and 68 (400 MW, 133 acres). Over 40 citizens spok...

On June 18, 2026, a Pennsylvania House committee unanimously advanced HB 2496 (Rep. Paul Friel, D-Chester), which would authorize municipalities to impose a pause of up to 180 days on data center application reviews v...

NEW preemptive regulation. On June 17 the Franklin Park Borough Council adopted Ordinance No. 697-2026 establishing a data center overlay district in the borough zoning map even though no application is pending. The r...

Virginia's Democratic-controlled legislature missed a critical budget deadline as lawmakers remain deadlocked over data center tax exemptions. The sales tax exemption cost the Commonwealth $1.6 billion in forgone reve...

On April 22, 2026, the Stafford County Planning Commission held public hearings on two proposed data center projects. The Potomac Creek Campus (Metts LLC, Joseph Metts; 99.3 acres on Eskimo Hill Road) was deferred una...

As reported May 27, 2026, Lee County commissioners are weighing extending their data center moratorium (currently expiring in July) through the end of 2026 and creating a dedicated data-center zoning district to preve...

Coweta County's moratorium on data center applications expired December 17, 2025, and the Board adopted a data center ordinance on December 16. On April 10-11, 2026, Coweta County commissioners voted 3-2 to rezone 829...

San Angelo City Council voted 7-0 to advance new land-use regulations requiring data centers in light/heavy manufacturing zones to obtain a conditional use permit (rather than being by-right). Includes 200-ft resident...

Meta expanded its El Paso data center investment from $1.5B to $10B (1GW capacity, 1,000 acres). Construction began November 2025 with completion targeted February 2029. El Paso Electric filed with the PUC to build a ...

On Thursday June 18, 2026 the La Crosse County (Wisconsin) Board of Supervisors approved an 18-month moratorium on new data center decisions and development by a 26-2 vote (two members absent; Ken Schlimgen and Jeff F...

Announced June 16, 2026, Winnebago County (Wisconsin) Executive Gordon Hintz introduced a proposed 12-month data center moratorium that would initially cover four towns (Nekimi, Neenah, Omro, Algoma). It will be taken...

EPA proposed redefining 'Begin Actual Construction' under the Clean Air Act New Source Review program to let data centers, gas plants, and factories start building non-emitting components (concrete pads, utility infra...

The House Energy & Commerce Committee scheduled an Energy Subcommittee markup (chaired by Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio) for Wednesday June 25, 2026 on a suite of electricity/data-center/grid bills — the first time House Rep...

Citizens Action Coalition and 27 public-interest organizations pushed Madison County to adopt a data center moratorium at the May 12 Plan Commission meeting, part of a statewide local-moratorium campaign. Outcome not ...

Boone County Area Plan Commission unanimously forwarded a favorable recommendation to the County Commissioners for a one-year moratorium on data centers in unincorporated areas. Meta's $10B Lebanon campus is incorpora...

Knox County drafted regulation ordinance capping height at 65 ft, 300-ft residential setbacks, noise limits (67/57 dBA), prohibiting connection to public electric/water, requires closed-loop energy (solar/wind/nuclear...

Warren County (TN) scheduled a June 22, 2026 vote on a temporary data center ban/moratorium covering its entire jurisdiction, following the City of McMinnville's (in Warren County) unanimous June 9 final passage of an...

The Cumberland County (NC) Board of Commissioners voted 6-0 (one absent) on April 20, 2026 to schedule a public hearing on May 18 at 6:45 p.m. on a proposed data center moratorium. Commissioners also voted 6-0 to dire...

North Carolina SB 730 cleared the House Energy Committee — would require closed-loop water cooling and prohibit foreign ownership of data centers. Reflects the 'China-as-scapegoat' framing appearing in several state b...

The Warren Township (Somerset County, NJ) Committee approved the first reading (May 18, 2026) of an ordinance — introduced by Committeeman Daniel Croson — that would prohibit data centers as a permitted use in all zon...

Bernards Township (Basking Ridge) is advancing Ordinance No. 2599, which would remove 'data processing centers' as a permitted use in the township's E1-E5 office zones and prohibit data centers township-wide unless ot...

Governor J.B. Pritzker announced a two-year suspension of state tax incentives for new data centers, effective July 1, 2026. The freeze applies to the state's data center tax exemption program. Still requires Illinois...

Illinois: The POWER Act (SB 4016/HB 5513), sponsored by Rep. Robyn Gabel (Evanston) and Sen. Ram Villivalam, establishes comprehensive statewide standards for data center development including clean energy procurement...

On June 2, 2026, after 1+ hour of public comment and 296 emailed comments, the Imperial County Board of Supervisors declined to adopt staff-drafted 'Data Center Development Guidelines' (21 safeguards including elimina...

Amazon Web Services received approval on July 3, 2025 for a 218,000 sq ft, 49 MW data center requiring 25 emergency generators on a 56-acre site in Gilroy, California. Two Change.org petitions were created — one to st...

Tucson, Arizona is advancing a Unified Development Code (UDC) amendment to regulate data centers. The proposed amendment requires a minimum 400 ft setback from residential uses, mandates a developer-hosted neighborhoo...

On June 15, 2026 Gov. Katie Hobbs signed Arizona's ~$18B FY budget, which includes a three-year moratorium on NEW data center sales/use tax exemptions. Existing data centers keep their exemptions (5-10 year terms) and...

EPA proposed redefining 'Begin Actual Construction' under the Clean Air Act New Source Review program to let data centers, gas plants, and factories start building non-emitting components (concrete pads, utility infra...

The House Energy & Commerce Committee scheduled an Energy Subcommittee markup (chaired by Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio) for Wednesday June 25, 2026 on a suite of electricity/data-center/grid bills — the first time House Rep...

On April 22, 2026, the YCUA Board of Commissioners approved a 12-month moratorium on delivery or commitment of water and sewer services to hyperscale and mid-size data centers, AI computing facilities, and high-perfor...

In City of Ypsilanti, Michigan, Ypsilanti City Council held a public hearing on March 3 to consider both a 60-day emergency moratorium and a separate 365-day resolution on data center zoning permits, Amid regional con...

Via SpaceX's IPO filing (May 20), xAI disclosed plans to buy $2.8B more turbines over 3 years — including a $2B order for the same kind of mobile gas turbines it is being sued over by the NAACP/SELC/Earthjustice. Back...

An xAI engineer told The Daily Memphian that the $80M Colossus Water Recycle Plant — a centerpiece of xAI's community-protection commitments — was 'indefinitely paused.' Elon Musk confirmed via social media that the c...

Virginia's Democratic-controlled legislature missed a critical budget deadline as lawmakers remain deadlocked over data center tax exemptions. The sales tax exemption cost the Commonwealth $1.6 billion in forgone reve...

QTS petitioned the Virginia Supreme Court to overturn the Court of Appeals ruling (March 31, 2026) that voided rezoning approvals for the 2,139-acre, 22M sq ft PW Digital Gateway near Manassas Battlefield. Compass Dat...

On April 23, 2026, the Wisconsin DNR's public comment period on air permits for 45 backup diesel generators at Vantage Data Centers' Port Washington Lighthouse project (Stargate, with Oracle and OpenAI as end users) d...

On April 7, 2026, Port Washington voters passed the nation's first anti-data center referendum with 66% of the vote (2,710 yes / 1,371 no, 50%+ turnout). Future Tax Incremental Districts (TIDs) with projected base val...

Prescott Balch, an explicitly anti-data-center candidate, was elected Village of Caledonia trustee on April 7, 2026, cementing anti-data-center representation on the village board after Microsoft canceled its 244-acre...

A Wisconsin PSC virtual public hearing on the proposed Very Large Customer tariff drew dozens of Wisconsin residents who decried potential effects on electricity rates. The vast majority of speakers during the 3+ hour...

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller (R, statewide elected) called for a temporary statewide moratorium on data centers plus independent grid/water studies and subsidy transparency: 'let's just take a pause... We...

Gov. Greg Abbott on June 10, 2026 released six data center legislative priorities for the 2027 session and issued immediate directives to state agencies. Priorities: new facilities must add generation to the grid; dat...

A 2.3M sq ft NTT Global Data Centers campus in southeast Mesa passed its first Planning & Zoning review. A City Council vote was set for June 8.

Takanock LLC (DigitalBridge-backed) Project Baccara: The Maricopa County Planning & Zoning Commission unanimously approved a military Special Use Permit on April 9, 2026 for the 2 million sq ft data center campus with...

On June 2, 2026, after 1+ hour of public comment and 296 emailed comments, the Imperial County Board of Supervisors declined to adopt staff-drafted 'Data Center Development Guidelines' (21 safeguards including elimina...

The Calexico City Council was scheduled to consider a proposed data center moratorium at its June 3, 2026 meeting (alongside a public-safety budgeting mandate). No specific data center project in Calexico was identifi...

Moosic Borough (Lackawanna County) is finalizing one of the county's most comprehensive data center ordinances, with a Borough Council public hearing targeted for its June 8, 2026 meeting. The ordinance strictly defin...

Olyphant Borough Council on April 14, 2026 rejected a proposed data center zoning amendment after residents argued the regulations were too lax (covering setbacks, noise, water usage, environmental impact). Immediatel...

Residents organized ('Block DC Blox') against a proposed $2B DC BLOX campus at a former Ford brownfield (305 Fintail Dr): 3 buildings, ~420,000 sq ft, up to 78 MW, 56 backup generators, ~35 jobs. Because DC BLOX sough...

In mid-May 2026 the Indianapolis City-County Council unanimously passed Proposal No. 158 (sponsor Jesse Brown), a nonbinding resolution urging the Metropolitan Development Commission to pause new data center approvals...

Exeter Borough (Luzerne County) approved a data center zoning amendment allowing them only as a conditional use, with a 500-ft setback and 60-ft height cap.

The Dorrance Township zoning hearing board unanimously denied a challenge (by Brewster Land Company) arguing the township's ordinance unlawfully excluded data centers; an appeal is expected.

The Dane County Board unanimously approved Sub 1 to RES-039 on June 4, 2026, an 18-month moratorium pausing zoning permit applications for hyperscale data centers (defined as 5,000+ servers and 10,000+ sq ft) through ...

Wisconsin SB 1061 would have imposed a moratorium on new data center construction until the state established a data center planning authority, prohibited cost-shifting to residents, eliminated subsidies, mandated pub...

Ohio House passed HB 646 on March 18, 2026, creating a 13-member Data Center Study Commission to examine impacts on environment, electrical grid, consumer utility rates, farmland, local economy, noise, and light pollu...

On June 1, 2026, Grove City passed a 12-month (1-year) moratorium on data center development, amended to create a task force to study impacts and develop regulations during the pause.