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Where the buildout is being paused, narrowed or waved through — county by county, from the ordinance record.
Market Trend · 28 August 2026
Provo, East Vincent, Naperville, San Marcos, Rochelle. Every recent data-center refusal we can point to was handed down by a city council or a township — inside counties that look unremarkable from a county-level screen.
Field Note · 28 August 2026
In three days in August, boards in Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Wisconsin adopted or extended data-center moratoria covering 674,579 residents.
Market Trend · 21 August 2026
In eighteen months the instrument went from a township's 180-day pause to a governor freezing an interconnection queue and a bill in both chambers of Congress. Each rung up the ladder is harder to route around than the one below it.
Market Trend · 20 August 2026
Governor Abbott froze roughly 250–300 grid-connection requests representing about 200 GW — more than twice ERCOT's record peak. For the first time the binding constraint on a data center isn't a county board. It's the queue.
Market Trend · 19 August 2026
Ask where data centers get blocked in America and most people still say Northern Virginia. Georgia, Michigan and the Carolinas now hold the overwhelming majority of restricted counties. Virginia holds one.
Field Note · 15 July 2026
On May 19, 2026 the O'Brien County Board of Supervisors adopted Resolution 2026-17, a county-wide moratorium pausing the construction of data centers while the Board develops standards for noise, power, and water impacts.
Field Note · 28 June 2026
A coordinated wave of local data-center restrictions surfaced in SitePath's news layer this cycle. The trigger headline (GovTech, 2026-06-22, in SitePath's news index) was "Data Center Bans Emerge in 4 More New Jersey Communities." The…
Field Note · 27 June 2026
The Woodbury County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to impose a one-year moratorium on data-center development in the unincorporated parts of the county.
Field Note · 25 June 2026
Butler County, Ohio — the Cincinnati–Dayton-corridor county of roughly 390,000 people — has approved a moratorium on data centers (WYSO, 17 June 2026).
Field Note · 22 June 2026
In a single week, three more local governments moved to slam the door on data centers, and Virginia lawmakers — who can't ban them — moved instead to tax them.
Field Note · 19 June 2026
On June 15, 2026 (6–8 PM), roughly 230 residents packed a data-center listening session at the Best Western Battlefield Inn, Manassas (unincorporated Prince William County), hosted by state Sen. L.
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 27 August 2026. Territories are outside the projection.
| State | Counties restricting |
|---|---|
| Georgia | 10 |
| North Carolina | 7 |
| Michigan | 6 |
| Maryland | 3 |
| California | 3 |
| Colorado | 2 |
| Iowa | 2 |
| Wisconsin | 2 |
| Idaho | 1 |
| Indiana | 1 |
| Kentucky | 1 |
| Virginia | 1 |
County ordinances and board resolutions, read 27 August 2026.
| Category | Value |
|---|---|
| Georgia | 10 counties |
| North Carolina | 7 counties |
| Michigan | 6 counties |
| Maryland | 3 counties |
| California | 3 counties |
| Colorado | 2 counties |
| Iowa | 2 counties |
| Wisconsin | 2 counties |
| Idaho | 1 counties |
| Indiana | 1 counties |
What The Scoop is. A weekly read on where energy and data-center projects are getting waved through, slowed down, or stopped cold — written from the ordinances, board votes, dockets and filings themselves. Every figure traces to a primary document. If a value cannot be verified against one, it does not run.
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