Data-center registry · News and policy actions
What moved this month
Facility proposals and approvals, moratoria, rules on nondisclosure agreements, water rules, polls, and market figures — one calm sentence each, figures exactly as the outlet stated them, every row linking the public source it came from. Items name a state or county where they have one, and those link to the registry page for that place.
34 items · latest September 17, 2026
September 2026
September 17, 2026FacilityPinal County, AZInactive
Pinal County rejects Vermaland's 3,300-acre data center complex
Arizona's Pinal County board of supervisors voted down a scaled-back proposal of 3,300 acres, 11 buildings and a gas-fired power plant, even after concessions.
The Land Desk, republished at Coyote Gulch
September 17, 2026FacilityEl Paso County, COPlanned
Colorado Springs postpones its Project Taurus decision until after the April election
City Council voted 7 to 2 to push its decision on a proposed AI data center off Garden of the Gods Road to April 13, 2027, one week after the municipal election.
Colorado Public Radio
September 16, 2026PolicySt. Joseph County, IN
South Bend mayor bans NDAs for data center projects
The mayor's directive keeps data center negotiations with the city out of nondisclosure agreements.
WNDU
September 16, 2026FacilityLeavenworth County, KSPlanned
Data center proposal draws a crowd to a Leavenworth County meeting
Residents filled a county meeting on a proposed data center; the proposal is at the hearing stage.
KCTV5
September 16, 2026PolicyLane County, OR
Eugene orders its 1,500-plus city employees not to sign data center NDAs
The city's order bars confidentiality agreements with data center developers, so any approach to the city stays on the public record.
Lookout Eugene-Springfield
September 15, 2026WaterOrange County, FL
Orange County, Florida commissioners back a moratorium on large AI data centers
Commissioners backed a temporary moratorium so county staff can study what utility-scale operations mean for water and community welfare; staff figures put one large facility at up to 5 million gallons of water a day.
Central Florida Public Media
September 15, 2026FacilityFranklin County, MOPlanned
Franklin County, Missouri approves data center rezoning and rewrites its setback rule
The county approved rezoning for the Gateway Digital Campus near Villa Ridge and changed setbacks from 1,000 feet from property lines to 1,000 feet from inhabited homes.
First Alert 4
September 14, 2026PolicyMultnomah County, OR
Portland council to vote on banning secret NDAs with data center developers
If it passes, every data center approach to the city goes on the public record, including a rule that staff must alert the council to any facility request of 20 megawatts or more.
KPTV
September 12, 2026FacilityPennington County, SDPlanned
Sequitor Edge announces a 10 MW data center in Rapid City
A 10 MW edge facility announced for Rapid City, South Dakota, as listed on the operator's public facility page.
Baxtel
September 8, 2026WaterColquitt County, GA
Colquitt County, Georgia extends its data center moratorium by 180 days
Commissioners took more time to write zoning rules rather than an outright ban; figures cited in coverage put a mid-sized data center at 300,000 gallons of water daily and a large one at 5 million.
The Moultrie Observer
September 8, 2026FacilityRoss County, OHPlanned
Chillicothe, Ohio councilman refuses a developer NDA as data center details emerge
Councilman Gunner Barnes declined to sign a nondisclosure agreement to tour the Alignment Engine site at the former Pixelle paper plant; about half of council members reported being asked to sign NDAs.
WSYX / cwcolumbus.com
September 6, 2026Market
AI data centers are transforming rural land markets, and fueling a backlash
The unsolicited offer at the farm gate is now a national business story: owners are comparing notes on what their land is worth to a buyer they did not invite.
CNBC
September 5, 2026MarketPennsylvania
The two numbers side by side, about $60,000 an acre offered and about $7,200 an acre accepted, are a public measure of what a data center buyer will pay for 261 acres.
BGR
September 4, 2026WaterTexas
At a September 1 hearing, the Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs chairman said developers have "no business" using evaporative cooling in Texas, and the committee signaled monthly water reporting.
Holland & Knight
September 3, 2026PolicyNorth Dakota
North Dakota Senate rejects a bill to ban government NDAs with data center developers, 32 to 15
Senate Bill 2406 would have penalized companies that enter a nondisclosure agreement with a government agency or official; it failed on the floor 32 to 15.
North Dakota Monitor
September 2, 2026PolicyMultnomah County, OR
Portland committee advances a resolution against NDAs in data center negotiations
The Housing and Permitting Committee voted to recommend that the full council keep data center negotiations public and out of nondisclosure agreements, choosing transparency rules over a moratorium as the starting point.
KATU
September 2, 2026FacilityPlatte County, WYPlanned
Platte County, Wyoming rezones 5,344 acres of private ranchland for a data center and energy complex
Commissioners voted unanimously to rezone 5,344 acres near Wheatland for applicant Site Layer 4, LLC despite resident concerns about the Ogallala Aquifer, wildlife, and noise.
Cowboy State Daily
September 2, 2026PolicyFresno County, CA
Fresno's mayor comes out against data centers and proposes a full ten-year ban
The mayor backed a ten-year ban on new data centers in the city; the ordinance text and hearing dates follow.
GV Wire
September 1, 2026FacilityBox Elder County, UTPlanned
Utah planned the world's biggest data center. Then came the bipartisan pushback.
The Stratos Project in Box Elder County would take over 20,000 acres of desert brush and farmland abutting the Great Salt Lake, down from an original 40,000 acres.
The Christian Science Monitor
September 1, 2026PolicyTexas
Texas' halt on powering data centers reflects a US reckoning over "ghost demand"
A Reuters review found electricity requests from very large power users, mostly data centers, exceed 700 gigawatts, more than 10 times industry estimates of current U.S. data center power use.
Reuters
September 1, 2026PolicyRowan County, KY
Rowan County, Kentucky passes a two-year data center moratorium before anyone asks
Judge-Executive Harry Clark: "First and foremost, we have not been approached by anyone for a data center." The county has no zoning laws to review such a project.
LEX 18
September 1, 2026FacilityYellowstone County, MTPlanned
Quantica outlines proposed water usage for its Broadview data center in Yellowstone County, Montana
The developer says the 5,000-acre campus will use 20,000 gallons per day at completion and 150,000 gallons per day during peak construction, drawn from the Deep Madison aquifer.
KXLH
September 1, 2026PolicyButler County, OH
Ohio Supreme Court: Trenton's data center ban must go before voters
Residents gathered 336 valid signatures; the council claimed 820 were needed; the correct number was 128. The unanimous court found "clear and convincing evidence that the council disregarded applicable law" and ordered the measure onto the ballot.
The Statehouse News Bureau
September 1, 2026FacilityLaramie County, WYPlanned
$20 billion investment cited, up to 2,000 jobs claimed, on-site natural gas generation, closed-loop cooling, and a pledge to restore more water than it consumes.
Cap City News
September 1, 2026FacilityLuzerne County, PAPlanned
Want an animal shelter? A lazy river? Cash? The deals data centers offer towns
NorthPoint Development proposed $10,000 to every household in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania if allowed to build a data center for Amazon; Lancaster, Pennsylvania's benefit agreement requires $20 million.
NOTUS
September 1, 2026FacilityEffingham County, GAPlanned
How much water will Effingham's OpenAI data center need? A lot, but not on site
The proposed site sits in the southern half of Effingham County, a state-designated "red zone" where new withdrawals from the Floridan aquifer are off limits.
The Current
September 1, 2026WaterCalifornia
California's AB 2469 passes: no local approval of data centers without disclosed water-use plans
AB 2469 passed Monday: no local approval of new or expanded data centers without disclosed water-use plans and developer-paid water infrastructure; the governor rejected a similar bill last year.
Hanford Sentinel / HSJ Chronicle
September 1, 2026PolicyArizona
Arizona's Attorney General calls for a statewide data center moratorium
The Attorney General asked the governor and Legislature to pause data center approvals statewide, citing rising energy bills and cuts to Arizona's Colorado River supply.
Rose Law Group Reporter
September 1, 2026WaterKing George County, VA
Amazon changes course on water use for its King George County, Virginia campus
Amazon is withdrawing a permit renewal that would have allowed withdrawals of up to 6.4 million gallons annually from the Potomac aquifer for its King George County campus.
News From The States
August 2026
August 31, 2026FacilityBarber County, KSPlanned
Barber County, Kansas approves its agreement for a Google data center near Sharon
The county commission approved the development agreement for a Google data center near Sharon.
KWCH
August 31, 2026Survey
Annenberg survey: 61% of Americans oppose a new data center in their community
The survey found 61% of Americans oppose building a new data center in their community, including 54% of Republicans, as an industry campaign to defend data centers gets under way.
Axios
August 30, 2026WaterOakland County, MI
Wixom, Michigan writes well water out of data center development entirely
The city's data center restrictions bar developments from drawing on well water.
The Detroit News
August 28, 2026Market
CBRE: record data center construction fails to ease capacity constraints
CBRE's North America data center trends report for the first half of 2026 records construction at a high while vacancy stays tight.
Data Center Frontier, citing CBRE
March 2025
March 31, 2025Survey
Data Center Watch: $64 billion of projects blocked or delayed amid local opposition
The report covers May 2024 to March 2025 and tallies projects blocked or delayed by local opposition at $64 billion.
Data Center Watch
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