Field Note · 9 October 2026
On October 6 a central Illinois city council voted 5-0 to stop accepting any application for a data center or a battery energy storage system until October 2027. The definition of 'battery use' is wider than the headline suggests.
County-level records only. A township or city moratorium inside an otherwise permissive county does not shade the state — Michigan alone has dozens — so read this as a floor, not a census.
County ordinance and resolution records, read 11 October 2026. Territories are outside the projection.
Market Trend · 26 September 2026
In one September week, three towns in three states wrote data centers out of every zoning district, permanently. None of them had a project in front of them. The one town that did, in upstate New York, voted against pausing anything.
Market Trend · 26 September 2026
In one September week a county council refused to pause solar, a county that banned it moved to undo the ban, one state regulator approved 1,137 megawatts and another killed 440 megawatts over price.
Market Trend · 25 September 2026
On July 14 the town of Newcomb banned battery storage nobody had proposed. Nine weeks later, the state signed $3.7 billion in contracts for it. Both happened in New York. Only one tells you where the industry is actually headed.
Field Note · 22 September 2026
Lexington's council spent 14 months writing a solar ordinance with a hard 1% land cap and mandatory agrivoltaics — then watched the mayor veto it anyway.
Market Trend · 18 September 2026
New Hampshire has spent two years watching county boards and township meetings pass data-center moratoria one at a time.
Market Trend · 11 September 2026
In the same week a rural California county voted to stop every data center cold, the state legislature sent Governor Newsom four bills that do the opposite: let the projects come, but make Big Tech, not the ratepayer next door, cover the…
Market Trend · 8 September 2026
On August 26 the White House declared a national emergency over the equipment inside the grid — inverters, transformers, batteries. The rules that define the ban won't exist until December. The manufacturers aren't waiting for them.
Assigned from the source document; an objection naming two technologies is counted under the one it leads with.
County ordinances and board resolutions. Municipal and township action sits below this line and is not counted here.
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