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Who is objecting, where, and on what grounds — read from public meetings, filings and local reporting.
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. The instrument has changed: these are pre-emptive pauses, written before anyone knocks on the door.
Field Note · 21 July 2026
SitePath merged five county-cluster research dossiers into the canonical store, covering 14 Massachusetts counties and 26 BESS-related ordinance records. Two things stand out for siting professionals.
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 · 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.
One objection on record is not one person. Where a town has a strong local paper, more of what residents say gets written down — so read the map as where objection is documented, not where it is felt.
Public meeting comment, petitions, filings and local reporting, each with a source link.
| State | Objections on record |
|---|---|
| Virginia | 223 |
| Indiana | 210 |
| Iowa | 199 |
| Texas | 185 |
| Georgia | 158 |
| Ohio | 157 |
| North Carolina | 156 |
| Kansas | 155 |
| Illinois | 137 |
| New York | 135 |
| Pennsylvania | 112 |
| Colorado | 102 |
| California | 98 |
| Missouri | 91 |
| Wisconsin | 84 |
| Maryland | 74 |
| Minnesota | 70 |
| Kentucky | 61 |
| Arkansas | 59 |
| Washington | 59 |
| South Carolina | 56 |
| Tennessee | 56 |
| Michigan | 50 |
| Arizona | 49 |
| Alabama | 42 |
| Idaho | 41 |
| Maine | 35 |
| Oklahoma | 35 |
| New Mexico | 34 |
| West Virginia | 29 |
| Montana | 28 |
| Nevada | 28 |
| Florida | 26 |
| Nebraska | 26 |
| Utah | 26 |
| Wyoming | 26 |
| Louisiana | 25 |
| Massachusetts | 23 |
| North Dakota | 22 |
| New Jersey | 18 |
| Mississippi | 13 |
| Oregon | 11 |
| South Dakota | 10 |
| Vermont | 7 |
| Connecticut | 5 |
| Delaware | 4 |
| New Hampshire | 2 |
| Rhode Island | 2 |
Assigned from the source document; an objection naming two technologies is counted under the one it leads with.
| Category | Value |
|---|---|
| Data centers | 1,410 on record |
| Utility-scale solar | 781 on record |
| Wind | 517 on record |
| Battery storage | 323 on record |
| General energy | 159 on record |
| Transmission | 64 on record |
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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