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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 several county-cluster research dossiers into the canonical store, covering a dozen or more Massachusetts counties and the BESS-related ordinance records behind them. 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.
Assigned from the source document; an objection naming two technologies is counted under the one it leads with.
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