What is the difference between a data center moratorium and a ban?

A moratorium is a temporary suspension of a specified step (accepting applications, issuing approvals, construction) that ends on a date or a condition, like New York's hold on certain state environmental permit applications. A ban is a prohibition with no verified automatic end, usually written into zoning or a charter, like North Berwick, Maine's prohibition on data centers of at least 25,000 square feet. Between them sit size caps (only facilities above a threshold are prohibited), zoning limits (allowed in some districts, not others, as in Kootenai County, Idaho), voter-approval requirements (Grove City, Ohio and Janesville, Wisconsin), incentive pauses (Arizona and Illinois stopped new tax-relief applications, not construction) and agency pauses (Texas's grid and permit directives). Thresholds cannot be compared across rows: greater than 25 MW is not at least 25 MW, Seattle's 20 MVA is not 20 MW, and some towns measure square feet or gallons of water per day instead.

Data Center Moratorium Tracker: State-by-State Map and Status

Q: Which governors have promised a data center pause?

As of November 6, 2026, eight governors or governors-elect who won on November 3 have said they want a pause or moratorium of some kind: Michigan, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Maine, New Hampshire, Georgia, Ohio (conditional) and Texas. None of these pledges is in force. Terms start between January 1 and January 19, 2027, and each pledge still needs an order, a budget or a bill. Results are unofficial until certified.

Q: Who decides whether a data center gets built?

Mostly towns and states, not Washington. Towns and counties control zoning and land use, governors and state agencies control state permits and in some states grid approvals, state lawmakers write the lasting rules and tax breaks, and utility commissions set who pays for grid upgrades. Congress has moratorium bills in committee and nothing enacted as of November 6, 2026.

Q: Which companies warn about data center moratoriums in SEC filings?

As of November 6, 2026, we found moratorium, pause or local opposition language in 2026 filings from 17 of the 42 listed companies we screened, and six name a specific government action. Microsoft's October 28 quarterly report cites 'community opposition, state and local moratoriums, and hyper-local dissent'. Riot Platforms, Cipher Digital, TeraWulf, CleanSpark, CoreWeave and American Electric Power cite actions in Texas or New York. A disclosed risk is not proof that a project has stopped.

Q: Is there a data center moratorium in Texas?

Not a statewide construction ban, as of November 6, 2026. Texas has agency-level pauses ordered by Governor Abbott: an August 3 directive requires ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission to verify data center projects advancing through interconnection, with noncompliant projects denied connection; a September 14 directive tells the Water Development Board to enforce water-use reporting; and a September 21 letter directs the Commission on Environmental Quality to pause issuance of data-center permits until ERCOT's review is complete. ERCOT intends to report on or before December 10, 2026; that is a report date, not an automatic end. Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa has pledged a pause on new data center approvals until the Legislature passes protections. It is a pledge, not an order, and whether projects that already hold permits could finish is not settled by anything in her own words on the record. Locally, San Marcos prohibits data centers in every zoning district, Brownsville's pause through February 3, 2027 was reported passed on November 4, and Fort Worth, Lubbock, Denton and San Antonio have proposals but no adopted pause.

Q: Is there a data center moratorium in New York?

Yes, a narrow one. Executive Order 62, signed July 14, 2026, directs the Department of Environmental Conservation to hold its discretionary permit applications for constructing or expanding data centers that consume or can consume at least 50 MW, where the application was pending or filed later and not deemed complete before July 14. It runs until the Department of Public Service issues its final generic environmental impact statement and findings; press summaries say up to one year, but the order sets a condition, not a date. It does not cover applications already deemed complete, local-government permits, or facilities used primarily for manufacturing, research, education or medical care. A separate bill, S10642/A11560, would freeze new DEC permits for data centers of at least 20 MW for one year; it passed both chambers on June 4, 2026 and showed no signing as of November 5.

Q: What is the AI Data Center Moratorium Act?

Two federal bills with that name, neither enacted as of November 6, 2026. S.4214, introduced by Sen. Bernard Sanders on March 25, 2026, and H.R.9442, introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on June 24, 2026, would stop construction or upgrading of defined AI data centers until specified federal safeguards become law. Both sit in committee: S.4214 in Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation; H.R.9442 in House Energy and Commerce and Foreign Affairs. The text says work may not commence or proceed, so there is no blanket exemption for projects already underway. A different bill often mentioned beside them, H.R.9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, is a cost-allocation proposal, not a moratorium; it passed the House 417 to 3 on September 16, and a Senate cloture vote on the motion to proceed failed 57 to 43 on September 30. H.Res.1471, the Data Center Bill of Rights resolution, is nonbinding.

Q: Which cities and towns voted on data centers on November 3, 2026?

45 local measures in 10 states, by our count: Ballotpedia's 41 plus four Maine towns. 31 passed and 14 were rejected. Ohio had 21 measures in 18 jurisdictions; eleven of them were prohibitions (Conneaut, Defiance, Granville, Hubbard, Oregon, Pataskala, Piqua, Sunbury, Trenton, Upper Sandusky and Urbana, several with a greater-than-25 MW threshold). Maine had eight, all approved: North Berwick's permanent zoning ban and seven temporary measures in Peru, Wells, Wiscasset, Eliot, Sabattus, Brownfield and Freedom. Kansas passed prohibitions in El Dorado, Emporia and Ottawa. Alhambra, California and Edgewater, Florida passed bans. Illinois's seven questions were advisory. Janesville, Wisconsin and Grove City, Ohio adopted voter-approval requirements, not bans. 44 of the 45 outcomes went the restrictive way; the one restriction that failed was Harwood, North Dakota's industrial review requirement. 19 of the 45 outcomes were checked against official returns; the rest are reported.

As of November 6, 2026, no US state has a blanket statewide ban on building data centers so far. Three states have a statewide pause in force, and they differ widely. Oregon's is the broadest: the governor directed the state environmental agency on October 9 to pause air and water discharge permits for new or expanded data centers until July 1, 2027, with no size threshold in the letter, on top of a September pause on state land. Texas has agency-level pauses on grid interconnection advancement and on environmental permit issuance while ERCOT audits projects. New York holds one class of state environmental permit application for data centers of 50 MW or more. Everything else at state level is an incentive pause or condition (Arizona, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, New Jersey), a permitting or power-contract condition (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, Alabama), a proposal (the two federal AI Data Center Moratorium Act bills, New York's 20 MW bill, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania), a failed bill (Maine, Georgia, Maryland, Delaware, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina) or a pledge. Eight governors or governors-elect have promised a pause of some kind, with terms starting from January 1, 2027; none of those pledges is in force. The actual moratoriums are local: dozens of county and city pauses, and the 45 local ballot measures of November 3.

Last updated November 6, 2026: first edition. Facts are current to the afternoon of November 6, 2026, Pacific time. The update log is at the end.

This page is a dated reference, not an argument. Every row names the office that acted, what the instrument covers, what it does not, and the primary document behind it. Where the only source is press reporting the row says "reported"; where we could not open the document it says so. It does not take a view on whether any of these policies is good, and it makes no market forecast. The companion piece, Who pays for AI data centers?, reads the financing side from the filings.

What the words mean on this page

Term	Meaning here	Example or limiting case
Moratorium	Temporary suspension of a specified step (applications, approvals, development or construction), ending on a date or a condition.	New York stops certain state environmental permit applications; it does not stop local permits.
Ban	Prohibition with no verified automatic end, usually by zoning or charter, possibly limited by definition or geography.	North Berwick, Maine, at 25,000 square feet and up.
Size cap	Facilities above a threshold are prohibited; smaller ones may still be allowed.	Ottawa, Kansas: more than 25 MW.
Zoning limit	Restriction by district, use, setbacks or approval procedure.	Kootenai County, Idaho prohibits data centers in commercial zones and allows them in industrial zones with a conditional-use permit. Adopting zoning is not a ban.
Voter-approval rule	Covered projects or transactions need an electorate vote.	Grove City, Ohio; Janesville, Wisconsin. Not a prohibition.
Incentive pause	A stop on applications or awards under a named tax or subsidy program.	Arizona and Illinois; construction and permits unaffected.
Grid or permit-agency pause	An executive directive to a utility regulator, grid operator or environmental agency to stop advancing or issuing something.	Texas's ERCOT and TCEQ directives.
Fast-track removal	Loss of expedited treatment; ordinary or conditional review continues.	Pennsylvania.
Tax repeal or narrowing	A statutory benefit removed or reduced for defined transactions.	Minnesota ended its electricity sales-tax exemption in 2025; other exemptions continue.
Advisory ballot	Nonbinding expression of voter preference.	All seven Illinois questions on November 3.
Pledge	Announced intention with no operative instrument.	The Texas governor-elect's campaign statements.

Thresholds cannot be compared across rows. "Greater than 25 MW" (Conneaut, Ohio) excludes a 25 MW site; "at least 25 MW" (Montgomery County, Maryland) includes it. Some rows measure aggregate monthly demand, some peak load, some capacity to consume. Seattle's threshold is 20 MVA, which is not 20 MW. Three Maine towns measure building area in square feet, and five have no size floor; El Dorado, Kansas uses 10 MW or 100,000 gallons of water a day; Dane County, Wisconsin requires both 5,000 servers and 10,000 square feet. A threshold is a definition, not a project size.

Which states have a data center moratorium in force? The state-by-state table

Status is as of November 6, 2026. "In force" means the instrument is operative on its own terms as far as the primary document shows; a blank effective date in the source is reported as such rather than guessed. "None found" means a bounded search of the state's legislative and executive records found no statewide pause or floor-advanced restriction; it is not proof of absence, and introduced-only bills may exist. Local actions are summarized in the second column and detailed in the tables that follow.

State	What exists at state level	Status	Covers	Does not cover	Date	Source
Alabama	Act 2026-610 (SB 270): utility regulators review retail power contracts for data centers expecting 150 MW or more. Local: Harpersville adopted a town pause on August 3.	In force: contract review, not a pause (final tariff start not verified)	Public Service Commission review of qualifying contracts under a public-interest standard on service costs	Construction and environmental permits	Oct 1, 2026	Act
Alaska	SB 250, Senate-passed, would require utility contracts and community benefit agreements before qualifying construction.	Proposed; latest disposition unverified (official page returned an error)	Construction prerequisites	Not a moratorium	Senate passage May 16	akleg.gov
Arizona	HB 4168 / SB 1861 tax package. Local: Pima County 120-day pause from September 22 (unincorporated county).	In force: incentive pause	New data-center tax-relief applications to the Commerce Authority	Construction and development permits	Jul 1, 2026 to Jun 30, 2029	azleg.gov
Arkansas	Interim Resolution 2025-008 asks the Legislative Council to encourage a statewide moratorium. Local: Pulaski County's proposal failed July 28; Independence County's five-year pause is reported, not verified.	Proposed, nonbinding; disposition unverified	A request	Not a prohibition	Aug 14, 2026	arkleg.state.ar.us
California	SB 887, signed September 21. Local: Gilroy, Hayward and San Diego pauses; Alhambra voters passed a ban.	In force: law (effective date not verified from the chaptered text)	Removes blanket environmental exemptions for data centers; conditions judicial streamlining	Not a moratorium or ban	Signed Sep 21, 2026	gov.ca.gov
Colorado	Nothing statewide. Local: Boulder County, Denver and Larimer County pauses.	None found			Nov 6	Bounded search
Connecticut	Nothing statewide (an incentive-repeal proposal, SB 245, surfaced with no floor passage verified). Local: New Haven 12-month pause.	None found			Nov 6	Bounded search
Delaware	HB 233, HB 445 and HB 310, signed August 26. SB 353 would have paused large-scale applications and permits through January 31, 2027. Local: Dover's proposed Ordinance 2026-14 is pending.	In force: power and incentive conditions, not a pause. SB 353 failed: June 30 motion to consider failed 6 to 15	Large energy users: approved service agreements, generation requirements before grid connection, limits on specified tax credits	Construction and local land use; facilities operating on August 26 unless their usage rises (HB 233)	Aug 26, 2026	HB 233, HB 445, HB 310, SB 353
District of Columbia	Nothing districtwide.	None found			Nov 6	Bounded search
Florida	SB 484 / Chapter 2026-65. Local: DeSoto, Manatee and North Port pauses; Edgewater voters passed a ban.	In force: law	Water-permit and utility conditions; local land-use authority retained	Not a moratorium or ban	Most provisions Jul 1, 2026	laws.flrules.org
Georgia	HB 1012 (local permits paused to March 1, 2027) and HB 1059 (to December 31, 2028); SB 410 incentive repeal passed the Senate March 6 only. The governor-elect pledged a pause (governors table below).	Failed: session ended without passage. Pause: pledge			2026 session	HB 1012, HB 1059
Hawaii	SR 90 SD1 requests a study. Local: Hawaii County Bill 170 is a reported proposal.	None found (study request)			Nov 6	Bounded search
Idaho	Nothing statewide. Local: Bannock County 180-day pause from July 30; Kootenai County zoning limits.	None found			Nov 6	Bounded search
Illinois	June 5 governor directive to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Local: seven advisory ballot questions on November 3.	In force: incentive pause	Processing of Data Center Investment Program applications and agreements, from July 1	Construction and ordinary permitting; no fixed end stated	Jul 1, 2026	dceo.illinois.gov
Indiana	HEA 1210 section 100. Local: Indianapolis pause reported (official page could not be opened).	In force: law, conditional incentive	Local quarterly payments required to use certain incentive certificates issued after June 30, 2026	Not a moratorium or repeal	Jul 1, 2026	in.gov
Iowa	Nothing statewide. Local: Audubon County application pause, May 5, 2026 to May 1, 2027.	None found			Nov 6	Bounded search
Kansas	Nothing statewide (an introduced drought-related proposal, SB 531; no floor vote verified). Local: Sedgwick County permit pause; El Dorado, Emporia and Ottawa voters passed prohibitions.	None found			Nov 6	Bounded search
Kentucky	Executive Order 2026-494. Local: Lexington-Fayette pause extended to October 31, 2027.	In force: requirements	Developer energy plans, Public Service Commission cost protection, permit denials for adverse impacts, community commitments	Not a blanket pause; local decisions	Aug 6, 2026	Order text (official host returned an error)
Louisiana	Executive Order JML 26-058 and a framework completed October 29 set conditions on state data center incentives. Local: New Orleans one-year pause reported, not verified.	In force: incentive conditions, not a pause	State incentive agreements, including the data center sales and use tax exemption	Construction and environmental permits; utility regulator jurisdiction	Jun 25, 2026; Oct 29, 2026	Order
Maine	LD 307 statewide permitting moratorium (20 MW and up). LD 713 incentive exclusions enacted separately. Local: eight towns voted November 3. The governor-elect pledged a moratorium (governors table below).	Failed: vetoed April 24, veto sustained April 29. New moratorium: pledge			Apr 29, 2026	LD 307, LD 713
Maryland	Executive Order 01.01.2026.16 (September 23) sets conditional state review. HB 120 moratorium bill. SB 116 of 2025 is a study law in force (report due September 1, 2026; sunset June 30, 2027), with no incentive gate. Local: Montgomery County Bill 19-26E; Frederick County order; Carroll County deferral.	In force: conditional review, not a moratorium. HB 120 failed: hearing February 3, no passage	Projects of 25 MW and up that are not aligned or lack a determination: substantive agency review deferred until local approvals and water authorizations are in place	Earlier complete applications and issued approvals; listed institutional, research and state exclusions	Sep 23, 2026	Order, HB 120, SB 116 chapter
Massachusetts	Executive Order 658; June 25 halt on sales and use tax exemption applications.	In force: conditional permitting; incentive pause	State permits for data centers built or expanded after September 8 with peak demand over 25 MW: framework conformance and a stakeholder benefits agreement	Existing facilities, below-threshold projects; not a moratorium	Sep 8, 2026; Jun 25, 2026	EO 658, incentive halt
Michigan	Nothing statewide found. Introduced moratorium packages surfaced in a search; not opened. The governor-elect pledged a moratorium (governors table below).	None found; pledge; proposal lead unverified			Nov 6	Bounded search
Minnesota	2025 First Special Session, chapter 13.	In force: tax change	Electricity for qualified data centers is taxable from July 1, 2025	Equipment and software exemptions continue; not a pause	Jul 1, 2025	revenue.state.mn.us
Mississippi	Nothing statewide. Local: Jackson six-month pause reported, not verified.	None found			Nov 6	Bounded search
Missouri	Nothing statewide (local pauses and a proposed House pause surfaced). Local: Jackson County Ordinance 6074, signed June 25.	None found			Nov 6	Bounded search
Montana	Nothing statewide. Local: Missoula County one-year interim zoning pause from July 9.	None found			Nov 6	Bounded search
Nebraska	Executive Order 26-17 and the governor's July 21 announcement.	In force: incentive review; announced halt	Review of ImagiNE and Nebraska Advantage incentives; the release says data-center ImagiNE applications will not be approved	Construction. The signed order contains no categorical halt; the announcement is broader than the order	Jul 20, 2026	EO 26-17
Nevada	Executive Order 2026-005. Local: Reno pause on new conditional-use permits to August 31, 2027; Boulder City voters rejected a zone permission; a federal appeals board stayed one land approval near Boulder City.	In force: incentive conditions	New and pending abatements need at least 4.6% combined sales and use tax and a Community Support Commitment	Prior Board-approved applications; construction and permits	Sep 17, 2026	gov.nv.gov
New Hampshire	HB 1265 one-year construction moratorium. The governor said September 2 she would propose a multi-year moratorium in the next budget (reported).	Failed: Inexpedient to Legislate, March 11. Budget moratorium: pledge			Mar 11, 2026	gc.nh.gov
New Jersey	P.L. 2026 c.32 (Data Center Fair Share Act) and P.L. 2026 c.77 (End Data Center Tax Credits Act). Local: Downe Township advisory question rejected.	In force: laws	Utility cost-allocation standards and curtailment rules (BPU proceeding under way); NextNJ-AI credit cap cut to $250 million and new applications closed	Not a construction or permit moratorium; the $250 million already awarded is unaffected	Jul 7 and Aug 27, 2026	BPU notice, NJEDA
New Mexico	Nothing enacted. A September 18 campaign release backs a moratorium on new large-scale projects. Local: Santa Fe County 18-month pause announced July 2, at a 1 MW threshold.	Pledge			Sep 18, 2026	Campaign release
New York	Executive Order 62. Bill S10642/A11560 (20 MW, one year) passed both chambers June 4 and shows no signing.	In force: environmental permit pause. Bill: proposed	DEC discretionary applications for data centers of at least 50 MW, pending or later filed and not complete before July 14	Applications already deemed complete; local permits; manufacturing, research, education and medical facilities	Jul 14, 2026, until the final generic environmental impact statement	EO 62, A11560
North Carolina	H1189 would pause state and local siting approvals from August 1, 2026 to August 1, 2028. Local: Charlotte pause to October 18, 2027; Orange County one-year pause from April 21.	Proposed: in House Rules since May 5			May 5, 2026	ncleg.gov
North Dakota	Nothing statewide. Local: Harwood voters rejected an added review requirement.	None found			Nov 6	Bounded search
Ohio	May 27 governor directive to the Tax Credit Authority. The governor-elect pledged a conditional moratorium (governors table below). Local: 21 ballot measures on November 3.	In force: incentive pause (continuation to November 6 not independently verified)	New data-center tax exemption requests after the June 1 meeting, while a joint legislative committee studies	Construction; existing exemptions	After Jun 1, 2026	Governor bulletin
Oklahoma	SB 1488 would have stopped building data centers until November 1, 2029. Local: Oklahoma City pause, April 21 to December 31, 2026.	Failed: no vote in the 2026 session			2026 session	oklegislature.gov
Oregon	October 9 governor directive to the Department of Environmental Quality; September 8 governor directive to state agencies; HB 4084 enterprise-zone exemption pause from June 5. Local: Hillsboro 120-day pause from July 27.	In force: environmental permit pause; state-property pause; incentive pause	Processing and issuing air and water discharge permits (NPDES, WPCF, ACDP, Title V) for new or expanded data centers, no size threshold named, plus municipal wastewater permit changes to take data center discharge; unapproved data-center easements, rights-of-way, leases, land-use permits and sales of state property; new standard enterprise-zone exemptions	Renewals of a data center's own existing permits are not addressed; projects already holding every needed permit; approved authorizations; long-term rural enterprise-zone and strategic investment exemptions	Oct 9, 2026 to Jul 1, 2027; Sep 8, 2026 to Jul 1, 2027; Jun 5, 2026	Letter to DEQ, Directive, temporary rule
Pennsylvania	Executive Order 2026-05. SB 1345 would let municipalities pause applications (re-referred to Rules September 30).	In force: conditional review and fast-track removal. Bill: proposed	Department of Environmental Protection applications filed after August 18 for projects over 25 MW: local approvals before issuance, whole-project review for applicants without a GRID consent agreement; all data centers removed from the Permit Fast Track	Earlier-filed applications; projects of 25 MW or less; not a moratorium	Aug 18, 2026	EO 2026-05, SB 1345
Rhode Island	Nothing statewide (local bans and incentive bills surfaced).	None found			Nov 6	Bounded search
South Carolina	H 5286 and H 5526 approval moratorium bills. Local: Spartanburg County 12-month pause from September 21.	Failed: no passage in the 2026 session			2026 session	H 5286, H 5526
South Dakota	SB 135 / Chapter 190.	In force: law, conditions	Data centers of 10 MW or more: separate electric-service terms, pre-operation water determinations, reporting; local authority preserved	Below 10 MW; not a moratorium	Signed Mar 24, 2026	sdlegislature.gov
Tennessee	Nothing statewide. Local: Nashville-Davidson pause to December 1, 2026.	None found			Nov 6	Bounded search
Texas	August 3 audit directive to the Public Utility Commission and ERCOT; September 14 Water Development Board directive; September 21 Commission on Environmental Quality permit pause. Governor Abbott's September 21 request to repeal data-center tax incentives and the governor-elect's approvals pause are pledges. Local: San Marcos zoning ban; Brownsville pause (final passage reported); Fort Worth, Lubbock, Denton and San Antonio proposals; Hill County's pause rescinded June 4.	In force: agency pauses	Verification before projects advance through ERCOT interconnection, with noncompliant projects denied connection; issuance of data-center permits by TCEQ until ERCOT's review is complete; other agencies told not to advance approvals	Operating data centers; no universal exemption for already-permitted projects established; no revocation of existing permits established	Aug 3 and Sep 21, 2026; ERCOT report intended by Dec 10	Audit, TCEQ letter
Utah	Executive Order 2026-03 framework. Local: Logan temporary land-use regulation from July 1.	In force: framework	Agencies adopt a water, air, wildlife, ratepayer and transparency framework	Not a freeze; no statewide zoning	May 29, 2026	le.utah.gov
Vermont	H.727 (certificate and utility-agreement conditions, not a moratorium): override failed 83 to 52 on May 29. The separate moratorium bill, S.205, did not advance past committee in the sources searched.	Failed			May 29, 2026	House journal
Virginia	HB 1515 (continued to 2027), SB 843 (prefiled October 9; reported to bar local approvals and state permits from July 1, 2027 to July 1, 2030) and SB 850 (reported prefiled; bill text not opened). Local: Loudoun County proposal to delay final votes, next discussion November 17.	Proposed; latest official histories partly inaccessible			2027 session	HB 1515, SB 843, SB 850
Washington	ESSB 6231 / Chapter 266. Local: Seattle, Spokane and Snohomish County pauses.	In force: tax narrowing	Removes the replacement-equipment exemption; preference limited to new construction	Not a siting or construction moratorium	Jun 11 and Jul 1, 2026	leg.wa.gov
West Virginia	Nothing statewide (a development-policy announcement does not establish one).	None found			Nov 6	Bounded search
Wisconsin	AB 840 (utility and water conditions, not a moratorium) passed the Assembly January 20 and failed to concur March 23. Local: Dane County 18-month hyperscale zoning pause; Janesville voter-approval rule. The governor-elect called for a pause (governors table below).	Failed. Pause: pledge			Mar 23, 2026	docs.legis.wisconsin.gov
Wyoming	Executive Order 2026-03 framework.	In force: framework	Coordinates agencies on ratepayer, water, grid and community principles	No pause	Jun 3, 2026	Governor bulletin

Proposed, failed and pledged, at a glance

In force, statewide, and about construction or permits: Oregon (state air and water permits for new or expanded data centers, and state-property authorizations), Texas (ERCOT interconnection advancement and TCEQ permit issuance, during the audit), New York (EO 62, state environmental permits at 50 MW and up). Conditions, not a pause: Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, Alabama.
In force, statewide, incentives only: Arizona, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio (continuation unverified), Nebraska (announcement broader than the order), Nevada (conditions, not a pause), Oregon, New Jersey. Tax changes with no pause: Minnesota, Washington, Indiana, Maine's LD 713.
Proposed, not law: federal S.4214 and H.R.9442; New York's 20 MW bill (passed both chambers, not signed); Virginia HB 1515, SB 843 and SB 850; North Carolina H1189; Pennsylvania SB 1345; Alaska SB 250 (not a moratorium); Arkansas's interim resolution; Michigan's introduced packages (surfaced in a search, not opened); locally, Dover, Fort Worth, Lubbock, Denton, San Antonio, Loudoun County and Hawaii County.
Failed: Maine LD 307 (veto sustained), Georgia HB 1012 and HB 1059, Maryland HB 120, Delaware SB 353, New Hampshire HB 1265, Oklahoma SB 1488, South Carolina H 5286 and H 5526, Vermont's S.205 (did not advance) and H.727 (override failed; not a moratorium bill), Wisconsin AB 840 (not a moratorium bill), Pulaski County, Arkansas; and the 14 rejected ballot measures listed below.
Pledged: the Texas governor-elect's pause on new approvals; Governor Abbott's request that the Legislature repeal data-center tax incentives; the New Hampshire governor's proposed budget moratorium (reported); the New Mexico campaign release of September 18.

Local moratoriums and bans in force, outside the ballot

Adopted county and city instruments with a primary document we opened, unless marked reported. Dates are adoption dates where the legal effective date was not separately established; end dates marked "about" are calculated from the stated term. This is a sample of significant jurisdictions, not a census of every municipality; a wider list follows it.

Jurisdiction	Instrument	Covers	Does not cover	Start	End	Source
Harpersville, AL	Ordinance 2026-08-03-03	Town data-center development	Exemptions not established	Adopted Aug 3, 2026	Feb 3, 2027	Town
Pima County, AZ	Resolution 2026-56	New development in the unincorporated county during a zoning review	Incorporated cities	Sep 22, 2026	About Jan 20, 2027	County
Gilroy, CA	Urgency moratorium, extended October 19	Future applications citywide	An approved project under construction	Sep 14, 2026	Sep 3, 2027	City, October 19 minutes
Hayward, CA	Interim urgency moratorium	Consideration and approval of new data centers	Existing facilities not identified as stopped	Oct 20, 2026	About Dec 4, 2026	City
San Diego, CA	Ordinance O-22152	Applications, permits and entitlements for establishing, expanding or intensifying data-center use citywide	Accessory server rooms, public safety and essential telecom, qualifying maintenance, vested rights	Oct 27, 2026	About Dec 11, 2026	Ordinance
Boulder County, CO	Temporary moratorium	Planning applications in the unincorporated county	Municipalities	Jun 2, 2026	About Dec 2, 2026	County
Denver, CO	Ordinance 26-0431	Certain permit and site-plan applications where a data center is the primary use	Exceptions and end not read in the register	Signed May 20, 2026	Not verified	Register
Larimer County, CO	Resolution, extended July 13	New land-use applications in the unincorporated county	Incorporated cities and towns	Jan 27, 2026	Feb 25, 2027	County
New Haven, CT	OR-2026-0035	Municipal land-use and building authorizations for new, converted or redeveloped data centers	Quantum and life-sciences research uses; existing facilities	Approved Sep 22, 2026; start date unclear (the ordinance names both adoption and publication)	12 months from the legal effective date	Register
DeSoto County, FL	Ordinance 2026-016	One-year pause on development applications in the unincorporated county	One approved and two pending rezonings named in the ordinance	Adopted Jul 28, 2026	One year from the effective date	Register
Manatee County, FL	Ordinance 26-42	Twelve-month pause on new data-center building, site-plan, rezoning and related applications in the unincorporated county	Municipalities; vested exceptions not established	Adopted Oct 8, 2026	Twelve months	County
North Port, FL	Ordinance 2026-25	New and pending development approvals for construction, expansion or intensification; eighteen months	A July 20 pending application exempt from processing only; hardship and hurricane exceptions	Passed Sep 22, 2026	Eighteen months from the effective date	Register
Audubon County, IA	Resolution 2026-27	Construction applications for commercial data centers, including crypto mining	Existing operations	May 5, 2026	May 1, 2027, or earlier on a permanent ordinance	Minutes
Bannock County, ID	Emergency Ordinance 2026-02	Receipt, processing and approval of applications in the county's jurisdiction	Permits already issued and related applications	Jul 30, 2026	About Jan 26, 2027	Ordinance
Kootenai County, ID	Ordinance 620 (zoning)	Prohibits data centers in the commercial zone	Industrial zones, with a conditional-use permit	Publication date not verified	None	Ordinance
Sedgwick County, KS	Interim development control, extended	Conditional-use and building permits involving data centers under county control	Wichita city limits not automatically included	Jan 14, 2026	Dec 24, 2026 (latest extension)	Process page
Lexington-Fayette, KY	Moratorium extension, approved 11 to 0	Data-center permits, development plans and zone changes	Existing operations not detailed	Oct 8, 2026	Oct 31, 2027	Council page
Frederick County, MD	County Executive order	Acceptance and processing of new Critical Digital Infrastructure and substation applications	Existing approved campuses not addressed	Jul 1, 2026	Dec 31, 2026	County
Montgomery County, MD	Bill 19-26E / Chapter 24 of 2026	Building and grading permits for data centers with aggregate monthly electricity demand of at least 25 MW, including pending conditional uses	Manufacturing, research, medical and higher-education facilities; permits already issued	Aug 10, 2026	Feb 10, 2028	Signed bill
Carroll County, MD	Deferral extended November 5 (adopted unanimously)	Acceptance and processing of data processing center plans	A construction stop or revocation of issued approvals is not established	Feb 19, 2026	Feb 19, 2028	Minutes
Jackson County, MO	Ordinance 6074	180-day pause on rezoning, conditional-use, site-plan and building-permit applications for data centers and battery storage	Operations	Signed and effective Jun 25, 2026	About Dec 22, 2026 (180 days, our calculation)	Signed ordinance
Missoula County, MT	Interim zoning moratorium	New or expanded data centers outside the city of Missoula	The city	Jul 9, 2026	About Jul 9, 2027	County
Charlotte, NC	October 26 extension	Acceptance, processing and approval of new data-storage facility applications in the city and its extraterritorial jurisdiction	Properties exempt under state law	Oct 26, 2026	Oct 18, 2027	Register
Guilford County, NC	18-month moratorium, unanimous (reported; final text not read)	New data centers in the county's planning jurisdiction	Incorporated cities; exemptions not verified	Nov 5, 2026 (reported)	18 months; exact date not verified	WXII, WXLV
Orange County, NC	Large-scale data-center moratorium ordinance, 6 to 0	One-year land-use pause on large-scale operations including AI, crypto mining and data processing	Threshold and vested exceptions not established by the release	Apr 21, 2026	One year	County
Santa Fe County, NM	18-month moratorium	Data-center development at a 1 MW threshold	Doña Ana County and its project; vested exceptions not verified	Announced Jul 2, 2026	18 months from the operative date	County
Reno, NV	Moratorium resolution	New conditional-use permit applications for data centers	Approved permits	Jun 1, 2026	Aug 31, 2027, or earlier on new regulations	City
Oklahoma City, OK	April 21 pause, amended May 19	New applications, rezonings and permits for construction or expansion	Two pending rezonings; further May 19 exemptions reported, amended text not located	Apr 21, 2026	Dec 31, 2026, or earlier on a zoning amendment	City
Hillsboro, OR	Resolution 2932	New land-use applications for new or expanded data-center or battery-storage primary uses	Earlier applications and approvals; telecom transmission	Jul 27, 2026	About Nov 24, 2026	Resolution
Spartanburg County, SC	Ordinance O-26-26	Certain new data-center applications, twelve months	Threshold and exceptions not established	Sep 21, 2026	Twelve months	Presentation
Nashville-Davidson, TN	BL2026-1448 as amended	Zoning, building and grading permits for data centers	Server rooms under 500 square feet accessory to a principal use	Approved Jul 24, 2026; effective on publication	Dec 1, 2026 (Amendment 1 moved it from Nov 1)	Register
Brownsville, TX	Ordinance 2026-1826 (final passage reported)	Acceptance, processing and approval of applications in the city and its extraterritorial jurisdiction	Final exemptions not verified; the agenda draft lists valid-permit and completed-application exceptions	Nov 5, 2026	Feb 3, 2027	City notice; final vote per reporting
San Marcos, TX	Ordinance 2026-08 (zoning ban, 4 to 3)	Data centers prohibited in every city zoning district	Vested exceptions and legal commencement not established	Adopted Jun 16, 2026	None	Council recap
Logan, UT	Ordinance 26-12	Temporary land-use regulation prohibiting data centers and data-center power plants	Exceptions and sunset not read	Published Jul 1, 2026	Not verified	Notice
Seattle, WA	Ordinance 127447	New establishment, expansion or change of use for data centers above 20 MVA, all zones	Existing facilities may expand by up to 20 MVA; below-threshold facilities	Jun 11, 2026	About Jun 11, 2027	Register
Snohomish County, WA	Emergency Ordinance 26-026	Filing, acceptance, processing and approval of data-center applications in the unincorporated county	Municipalities	Adopted Jun 24, 2026	Not verified	Register
Spokane, WA	Ordinance C36887	Building-permit applications for new data centers citywide	The separate county	Jun 22, 2026	About Jun 22, 2027	City
Dane County, WI	Substitute 1 to 2026 RES-039	County zoning for hyperscale centers of at least 5,000 servers and at least 10,000 square feet, in towns under county zoning	Smaller centers; cities and villages with their own zoning	Adopted Jun 4, signed Jun 8, 2026	18 months	County

Reported, not verified from a primary document, and left out of the table above: Independence County, Arkansas (five-year pause reported August 11), New Orleans (one-year pause reported October 15), Jackson, Mississippi (six-month pause reported July 14) and Indianapolis (permitting pause reported approved August 19; the city page could not be opened). Not active: Hill County, Texas adopted a pause on May 12 and rescinded it on June 4, replacing it with a developer checklist. Not adopted: Fort Worth's August 11 resolution only started a process, with its first public hearing set for November 10; Lubbock's September 22 resolution did the same, with consideration set for November 10; Denton's hearings and San Antonio's August 25 council discussion have produced no adopted pause we could verify.

More local holds, by state

This is the wider list behind the table above: 72 more county, city and township measures in 12 states where we read a primary record and the stated term is still running. It is well short of a full census. SemiAnalysis's public write-up counts over 300 enacted local moratoriums and bans, including 45 in Michigan and 40 in Ohio; we have not reconciled our list to that count, and local terms lapse or change often, so check the linked record before relying on a row.

Jurisdiction	What it is	Does not cover	Ends	Source
Cherokee County, GA	180-day extension of a moratorium on new data center applications in the unincorporated county	Data centers already under development	About Feb 2027	Record
Clayton County, GA	Extended moratorium on applications to establish or expand data centers in the unincorporated county	No blanket shutdown of existing operations established	Dec 31, 2026	Record
DeKalb County, GA	Extended moratorium on applications and permits for new or expanded data centers in the unincorporated county	Existing lawful data center operations	Mar 30, 2027	Record
Dougherty County, GA	Extended moratorium on new data center applications in the unincorporated county	No blanket construction shutdown	Feb 27, 2027, or earlier on board action or new zoning rules	Record
Putnam County, GA	Moratorium on land-development permits for data centers, battery energy storage and solar systems, extended October 21	Not a shutdown of all construction; vested exceptions not stated	Nov 17, 2026	Record
Fulton County, IL	Six-month extension of a moratorium on data center and commercial crypto-mining development applications	Not stated	Unresolved (six-month extension)	Record
Lake County, IL	Moratorium on applications for new data centers in the unincorporated county	Incorporated municipalities	May 11, 2027, or earlier when data center regulations are adopted	Record
Mattoon, IL	Moratorium on new data center developments larger than 21,780 square feet in the city and its 1.5-mile zoning jurisdiction	Existing businesses may continue operating	Unresolved (annual renewal required)	Record
Martin County, IN	Moratorium on placement and construction of data centers, battery storage, utility-scale solar and commercial wind in the unincorporated county	Incorporated areas	Jul 15, 2027	Record
Merrillville, IN	One-year moratorium on approvals of new data center projects	No stop of approved or underway construction established; full exceptions unresolved	May 31, 2027	Record
Prince George's County, MD	Moratorium on subdivision and site-plan applications, including qualified data center uses	Not a blanket ban on existing operations	Jul 7, 2028, or earlier if comprehensive legislation ends it	Record
Armada Township (Macomb County), MI	Extension of a moratorium on data center construction and permitting	Not stated	Unresolved (180 more days)	Record
Big Rapids Charter Township (Mecosta County), MI	Temporary moratorium ordinance on permitting and construction of data centers	Not stated	About Feb 2027, or earlier when township regulations take effect	Record
Blair Township (Grand Traverse County), MI	Moratorium on applications and approvals for new or expanded data centers	Internal server rooms and principal-use IT and switching facilities	Oct 17, 2027, or earlier on new zoning rules	Record
Chesaning Township (Saginaw County), MI	Moratorium on siting, construction and permits for data centers	Acquired rights and pending proceedings	May 18, 2027 (earlier repeal possible)	Record
Delhi Charter Township (Ingham County), MI	Moratorium on accepting, processing and approving data center development applications	No separate utility or incentive hold established	About Apr 2027	Record
Eagle Township (Clinton County), MI	Moratorium on permits, licenses and approvals for data centers	Not stated	Feb 17, 2027	Record
Erie Township (Monroe County), MI	Moratorium on accepting and processing new and existing data center applications and permits	Electric service shutoff and incentive suspension	Feb 17 or Mar 16, 2027 (the source gives conflicting effective dates), or earlier on a zoning amendment	Record
Freedom Township (Washtenaw County), MI	Moratorium on commercial data center zoning applications	Utility denial and incentive withdrawal are not ordered	About Mar 18, 2027, or earlier if replacement regulations are adopted	Record
Garfield Charter Township (Grand Traverse County), MI	Moratorium on applications, permits and approvals for data centers and crypto mining	Not stated	Aug 25, 2027, or earlier on board action	Record
Hayes Township (Charlevoix County), MI	Extension of a moratorium on data center applications	Not stated	About Feb or Mar 2027	Record
Joyfield Township (Benzie County), MI	Moratorium on applications, permits and approvals for data centers and cryptocurrency mining facilities	Not stated	Oct 7, 2027, or earlier on board action	Record
Lyndon Township (Washtenaw County), MI	Moratorium on permits, licenses and approvals for data centers	Not stated	May 27, 2027, or earlier when township regulations take effect	Record
Manchester Township (Washtenaw County), MI	Moratorium on permitting, construction and installation of data centers	Power access and tax-incentive decisions	About Oct 22, 2027, or earlier when township regulations take effect	Record
Marengo Township (Calhoun County), MI	Moratorium on permitting, approval and construction of data centers	Not stated	About Mar 6, 2027, or earlier when township regulations take effect	Record
Mason Township (Cass County), MI	Moratorium on accepting and processing data center applications	Not stated	Jun 8, 2027, or earlier on new regulations	Record
Niles Charter Township (Berrien County), MI	Moratorium on accepting and processing data center applications	No blanket operating shutdown or revocation of issued permits stated	About Oct 2027, or earlier on a zoning amendment	Record
Parma Township (Jackson County), MI	Moratorium on permitting, approval and construction of data centers	Not stated	Unresolved (one-year term)	Record
Portage, MI	Moratorium on accepting and processing data center applications, with a separate hold on battery energy storage	Not a universal shutdown of operations	Dec 31, 2026, or earlier when city regulations take effect	Record
Richland Township (Kalamazoo County), MI	Moratorium on accepting, processing and considering data center applications	No automatic closure of existing facilities established	Sep 20, 2027	Record
Richmond Township (Osceola County), MI	Moratorium on building-permit and zoning-approval applications for data centers	Internal server rooms and equipment serving only on-site operations; telecommunications switching facilities	About May 2027, or earlier on a data center zoning amendment	Record
Waterford Charter Township (Oakland County), MI	Extension of a moratorium on site-plan and business-registration applications for new data centers	Acquired rights	About Apr 1, 2027	Record
Watersmeet Township (Gogebic County), MI	Temporary moratorium ordinance on permitting and construction of data centers	Not stated	About Sep 2027	Record
Watertown Charter Township (Clinton County), MI	Moratorium on accepting and processing data center applications, including crypto and AI	Prior approvals are not revoked	May 18, 2027	Record
Wheeler Township (Gratiot County), MI	Moratorium on permitting, approval and construction of data centers	Not stated	Unresolved (one-year term)	Record
Independence, MO	180-day moratorium on new data processing, hosting and battery storage applications, permits and licenses	Previously submitted, authorized or approved projects; the Nebius project	About early Jan 2027	Record
Davie County, NC	Moratorium on permits and rezoning applications for data centers in the county zoning jurisdiction	Exemptions preserved under G.S. 160D-107(c)	Jul 5, 2027	Record
Durham County, NC	Nine-month moratorium on new data centers and expansions beyond 100,000 total square feet	Smaller facilities	About May 2027	Record
Farmville, NC	Moratorium on development approvals for data center, crypto-mining and related projects in the town and its extraterritorial jurisdiction	Not a universal halt to construction	About Aug 2027	Record
Hillsborough, NC	One-year moratorium on data center development under the town's land-use authority	Not stated	About Jun 2027	Record
Raleigh, NC	Six-month moratorium on data center development applications, including major data center special use permits	No universal ban on operating facilities	Apr 6, 2027	Record
Statesville, NC	Moratorium on new telecommunications and data center applications in the city and its extraterritorial jurisdiction	Not stated	Mar 13, 2027	Record
Athens Township (Athens County), OH	Moratorium on zoning approvals for new or expanded data centers in the zoned part of the township	Unzoned township territory; not countywide	About Aug 2027	Record
Avon Lake, OH	Moratorium on data center development review and on zoning, building and occupancy permits	Incidental data centers that primarily support an on-site permitted use	Jun 22, 2027	Record
Bellefontaine, OH	Moratorium on establishing or developing data centers within city limits	Not stated	About Oct 2027	Record
Buckeye Lake, OH	Moratorium on applications and permits for building or operating data centers within village limits	No express closure of existing operations	About Jul 27, 2027	Record
Clayton (Montgomery County), OH	Moratorium on zoning, conditional-use and building applications for data processing centers, including AI and cryptocurrency	Prior permits and current pending applications are protected	Jul 16, 2027, unless council revokes it earlier	Record
Cleveland, OH	Extension of a moratorium on permit review and issuance for data centers	Not stated	Jan 29, 2027, or earlier on new data center regulations	Record
Fairfield Township (Butler County), OH	Moratorium on zoning certificates and building permits for industrial-scale data centers	Existing lawful operations	Unresolved (six months from effectiveness)	Record
Grove City, OH	Moratorium on development and approvals for high-density computing facilities	Not stated	About Jun 1, 2027	Record
Hudson, OH	Six-month moratorium on new applications and permits for defined data centers	Not stated	About Jan 2027	Record
Jackson Township (Franklin County), OH	One-year moratorium on new data center development in the unincorporated township	Land annexed into a municipality	About May 2027	Record
Kent, OH	Moratorium on applications and permits for proposed data centers	No shutdown of existing operations established	Apr 15, 2027 at the latest	Record
Mayfield Village, OH	Moratorium on rezoning, conditional-use and building approvals and permits for data center uses	No blanket shutdown of existing operations established	About Jun 2027	Record
Miami Township (Greene County), OH	Moratorium on new data centers; a replacement adopted Oct 19 starts Nov 19 and bars zoning permits, conditional-use permits and site-plan approvals	Not stated	About Nov 19, 2028 for the replacement; signed final term not read	Record
Miamisburg, OH	Nine-month moratorium on data center development within the city	Not stated	About Jun 2027	Record
Middleburg Heights, OH	Moratorium on new data center applications, permits, licenses, variances and zoning applications	No shutdown of existing operations established	About Jun 23, 2027	Record
Monclova Township (Lucas County), OH	Moratorium on township action facilitating data processing centers, including applications and land-use approvals	Not an instruction to close existing operations	Feb 17, 2027	Record
North Royalton, OH	Moratorium on zoning, occupancy, conditional-use and building approvals for new data centers in all zoning districts	No explicit shutdown of existing operations	About Jul 21, 2027	Record
Ravenna, OH	One-year moratorium on approval of new data centers within the city	An existing Bitcoin operation	About Apr 20, 2027	Record
Richfield Township (Lucas County), OH	Moratorium on new data center and related-use applications, zoning certificates and discretionary proceedings	Existing final approvals and complete pre-effective applications; ordinary maintenance without expansion; governmental emergency facilities; qualifying utility work	About Feb 17, 2027	Record
Sunbury, OH	Moratorium on development, construction and zoning changes enabling data centers	Not stated	Jan 31, 2027	Record
Tallmadge, OH	Extension of a moratorium on new data center applications, permits, variances and zoning approvals	Not stated	About Oct 13, 2027, or earlier on new regulations or repeal	Record
Twinsburg, OH	Moratorium on zoning and occupancy permits for data centers as a principal use	Neighboring municipalities and townships that use city wastewater	About Apr 2027 at the latest	Record
Williamsburg Township (Clermont County), OH	Extension of a moratorium on zoning-certificate applications for data centers	The incorporated Village of Williamsburg	Jan 25, 2027	Record
Yellow Springs, OH	Moratorium on zoning permits for new data centers above 2 MW of aggregate monthly demand or peak load, and for expansions that create load above 2 MW	Auxiliary data centers meeting four specified conditions; applications and permits before effectiveness; expansions at or below 2 MW	May 18, 2027	Record
Gregg Township (Centre County), PA	Moratorium on new municipal data center applications, including zoning, building, subdivision and land-development	Complete applications filed before adoption can continue processing	About Jan 5, 2027, or earlier on repeal or a zoning amendment	Record
Gregg Township (Union County), PA	Suspension of applications for commercial data and technological centers	Not stated	About Feb 16, 2027	Record
Cross Plains, TN	Two-year moratorium on approval, construction and siting of new data centers and crypto mines in the city	Lawful existing operations with all final approvals and permits before the effective date	Jun 18, 2028	Record
Chesapeake, VA	Eight-month pause on City Council hearings for data center applications	Application intake and construction	About Mar 21, 2027	Record
Front Royal, VA	Moratorium on accepting data center land-use applications, extended 60 days on September 28	Not a universal construction ban	About Dec 3, 2026	Record
Iowa County, WI	Moratorium on data center and battery storage development in the unincorporated county	Incorporated jurisdictions	Up to Mar 17, 2027 (maximum initial term)	Record

Which cities and towns voted on data centers on November 3, 2026?

45 local measures in 10 states, by our count: the 41 in Ballotpedia's November table plus four Maine towns (Eliot, Brownfield, Freedom and Sabattus) found in Maine reporting. 31 passed, including two nonbinding Illinois questions; 14 were rejected. In directional terms 44 of 45 outcomes favored restriction or rejected a pro-development question, counting two general township zoning adoptions; the one restriction that failed was Harwood, North Dakota's added industrial review. That does not mean voters enacted 44 bans. The passed measures include permanent prohibitions, size-threshold prohibitions, temporary moratoriums, two voter-approval requirements, two general zoning adoptions, a financial-guarantee rule and advisory questions. 19 of the 45 outcomes were checked against a readable official return or an official post-election notice; the other 26 rest on Ballotpedia's reporting, and several official returns are themselves marked unofficial. 45 is the number identified, not a guarantee that no other local ballot existed.

State	Measures	Passed / rejected	What voters considered
Ohio	21	15 / 6	Eleven prohibitions; Grove City voter-approval rule; Perry financial guarantees for incentivized hyperscale projects; Monroe and Sprigg township zoning; four Wilmington parcel rezonings (rejected); Ashville negotiating framework (rejected); Monroeville advisory question (rejected)
Maine	8	8 / 0	North Berwick permanent prohibition; seven temporary measures
Illinois	7	2 / 5	All advisory: Bloomington and Morgan County in favor of restrictions; Chouteau, Granite City, Joliet, Nameoki and Venice townships rejected questions asking officials to permit data centers
Kansas	3	3 / 0	El Dorado, Emporia and Ottawa prohibitions, each with its own definition and term
California	1	1 / 0	Alhambra Measure DB, prohibition
Florida	1	1 / 0	Edgewater Amendment 4, prohibition on approving, building, expanding or operating new data centers
New Jersey	1	0 / 1	Downe Township advisory question supporting data centers, rejected
Nevada	1	0 / 1	Boulder City Question 1, permission in the Eldorado Valley area, rejected
North Dakota	1	0 / 1	Harwood added industrial review, rejected
Wisconsin	1	1 / 0	Janesville voter approval for development of the GM/JATCO site over $450 million

The 31 measures that passed

Vote counts are from official returns where we could read one (marked official, some still unofficial) and from Ballotpedia otherwise (marked reported). Scope is from the ballot or ordinance text as described on the official or Ballotpedia page; adopted legal text, commencement and vesting were not fully checked for most rows.

Jurisdiction	What passed	Threshold or term	Result	Evidence
Alhambra, CA	Measure DB: prohibit data centers in the city	None stated	13,314 to 2,889	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Edgewater, FL	Amendment 4: prohibit new data centers from being approved, constructed, expanded or operated	None stated	7,875 to 2,328	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Bloomington, IL	Advisory: impose a moratorium on large-scale data centers	Nonbinding	21,851 to 6,316	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Morgan County, IL	Advisory: restrict construction and operation	Nonbinding	9,413 to 1,250	Reported (Ballotpedia)
El Dorado, KS	Prohibit high-impact data centers and specified battery storage	More than 10 MW peak demand or 100,000 gallons a day; ten years, immediate	2,972 to 1,183 (updated county return; Ballotpedia's earlier 2,966 superseded)	Official (city notice, return)
Emporia, KS	Prohibit construction of high-impact data centers	Per adopted definition, not fully checked	4,346 to 2,891	Official unofficial final (county)
Ottawa, KS	Question 2: prohibit construction of data centers	More than 25 MW	2,882 to 1,129	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Brownfield, ME	Temporary moratorium	Reported 180 days; threshold and clock not obtained	About 78% yes (reported)	Reported (Bangor Daily News / Maine Monitor); town site
Eliot, ME	Question 5: data center moratorium ordinance	Reported 180 days, no size floor; adopted text unreadable	2,965 to 909	Official, moderator-certified (return)
Freedom, ME	Data center moratorium ordinance	Draft prohibits defined development with no size floor; adopted expiry not established	About 70% yes (reported)	Reported; official draft
North Berwick, ME	Question 2: zoning amendment defining and prohibiting data centers	Aggregate Data Center Area of at least 25,000 square feet; permanent	2,114 to 582	Official, certified (return)
Peru, ME	Article 2: temporary moratorium on development and permitting	180 days from passage; no size floor; routine telecom upgrades exempt	578 to 182	Official, town-posted (return)
Sabattus, ME	Temporary moratorium	At least 10,000 square feet or 20 MW; 180 days from final passage; applications from July 28 reached	1,565 to 791	Official, clerk-certified (return)
Wells, ME	Article 5: retroactive moratorium	Aggregate area of at least 100,000 square feet; 180 days from a June 16 applicability date, not from November 3	5,818 to 1,282	Official, clerk-certified (return, final warrant)
Wiscasset, ME	Question 2: data center moratorium	Six months; applications filed on or after November 3; conditional 180-day extensions	1,363 to 712	Official unofficial (return)
Conneaut, OH	Issue 10: prohibit construction	Greater than 25 MW aggregate monthly demand or peak load	2,301 to 1,218	Official unofficial (county)
Defiance, OH	Prohibit construction	Greater than 25 MW	3,823 to 2,083	Official unofficial (county)
Granville, OH	Prohibit construction	None stated	2,015 to 429	Official unofficial (county)
Grove City, OH	Issue 28: voter approval required for certain developments	At least 50 contiguous acres, more than 20 MW, or more than 500,000 gallons a day	11,317 to 9,411	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Hubbard, OH	Prohibit data centers within city limits	None stated	2,622 to 802	Official unofficial (county)
Monroe Township (Adams County), OH	Adopt zoning in unincorporated areas	General zoning, not a data-center ban	148 to 100	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Oregon, OH	Issue 25: prohibit construction	Greater than 25 MW	4,994 to 3,235	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Pataskala, OH	Prohibit large-scale data centers	Greater than 25 MW	5,418 to 1,941	Official unofficial (county)
Perry, OH	Issue 16: financial guarantees from hyperscale developers seeking special tax incentives	Incentivized projects only; not a ban	946 to 140	Official unofficial (county)
Piqua, OH	Charter amendment prohibiting construction of a data center	None stated	4,061 to 2,027	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Sprigg Township (Adams County), OH	Adopt zoning in unincorporated areas	General zoning, not a data-center ban	330 to 297	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Sunbury, OH	Prohibit construction	Greater than 25 MW	2,809 to 763	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Trenton, OH	Issue 17: prohibit large-scale data centers	Greater than 25 MW	3,541 to 903	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Upper Sandusky, OH	Charter amendment prohibiting construction	None stated	1,893 to 568	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Urbana, OH	Prohibit construction within city limits	None stated	2,978 to 877	Official unofficial (county)
Janesville, WI	Voter approval before the city leases, sells, transfers or approves development of the GM/JATCO site	Projects over $450 million; not a ban	16,779 to 9,932	Reported (Ballotpedia)

The 14 measures that were rejected

Thirteen asked voters to permit, allow or uphold something and were turned down; one asked for more review and was turned down.

Jurisdiction	What was rejected	Result	Evidence
Chouteau, Granite City, Nameoki and Venice townships (Madison County), IL	Advisory questions asking officials to permit new data centers	365 to 1,817; 1,959 to 5,703; 602 to 2,117; 311 to 978	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Joliet Township (Will County), IL	Advisory question on approving AI data center construction	3,800 to 14,207	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Downe Township, NJ	Advisory question supporting data centers	62 to 425	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Boulder City, NV	Question 1: allow data centers in the Eldorado Valley Transfer Area	2,100 to 5,060	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Harwood, ND	Added review before approving industrial developments including data centers	105 to 325	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Ashville, OH	Referendum upholding a negotiating term summary with a developer for two data centers	331 to 1,469	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Monroeville, OH	Advisory question on allowing data center development	55 to 394	Reported (Ballotpedia)
Wilmington, OH (four referendums)	Upholding rezonings of four parcels from rural residential to light industrial	About 20% yes on each	Official unofficial (county)

Ohio has 18 jurisdictions, not 21 towns: Wilmington contributes four measures. Two corrections to watch for in other coverage: one Maine report said North Berwick's ban failed; the certified town return says 2,114 to 582 in favor. Wiscasset's official no vote is 712, not the 713 in one report.

Which governors have promised a data center pause?

Eight governors or governors-elect who won on November 3 have said they want a pause or moratorium of some kind, by our count. None of these pledges is in force. Each needs an order, a budget or a bill after the term starts, and election results are unofficial until certified. Candidates who made the same pledge in Alaska and Kansas were in races without a confirmed winner as of November 6. The existing pauses in Oregon and New York are in the state table above and are not counted here, because an existing order is not a promise to extend it.

State	Governor or governor-elect	Term starts	In their words	Instrument named	Source
Michigan	Jocelyn Benson	Jan 1, 2027	"We need to put a moratorium on data centers" (Sep 13)	Not specified; new builds until rules exist	Campaign
New Mexico	Deb Haaland	Jan 1, 2027	"I support a moratorium on data centers" (Sep 18)	Day-one executive order, per reporting	Campaign
Wisconsin	David Crowley	Jan 4, 2027	"I think there should be a pause" (Oct 20)	Not specified; tied to an environmental review	Fox 47, reported
Maine	Hannah Pingree	Jan 6, 2027	"I believe there should be a moratorium on AI data centers." (Oct 27)	Not stated on the campaign page	Campaign
New Hampshire	Kelly Ayotte	Jan 6, 2027	"we should have a moratorium on data centers" (Oct 19)	A 2027 budget proposal, which needs lawmakers	NHPR
Georgia	Keisha Lance Bottoms	Jan 11, 2027	"we need to pause on new construction of data centers" (Aug 31)	Executive order, per CBS on November 6	Campaign
Ohio	Amy Acton	Jan 11, 2027	"support a conditional moratorium on data centers" (Jul 27)	Conditional; order or bill not specified	Campaign
Texas	Gina Hinojosa	Jan 19, 2027	"We need an immediate moratorium on data centers" (campaign page)	Emergency executive order, plus legislation	Campaign

Term start dates are the constitutional or reported dates, not confirmed ceremonies. Whether any of these would reach projects that already hold permits is unsettled: the campaign texts we read name no general exemption. One Georgia outlet's analysis says that state's pause could not unwind approved projects, and the Texas section below covers the sharpest public dispute. General executive power does not establish authority to suspend every permit, override a utility commission or cancel vested rights, so read each pledge alongside what that state's governor can do alone.

Who decides whether a data center gets built?

Mostly towns and states, not Washington. Which level matters depends on the step a project needs next.

Towns and counties control zoning and local land use, which is why most actual moratoriums are local. A local pause stops at the town line.
Governors and state agencies control state permits and, in some states, grid approvals and state land. Oregon and Texas acted this way, through letters and directives to agencies rather than new laws.
State lawmakers write the lasting rules and the tax breaks. Several pledges run only until a law passes, which ties them to 2027 sessions.
Utility commissions set who pays for grid upgrades and review large power contracts, as in Delaware and Alabama.
Congress has moratorium bills in committee and nothing enacted. The next Congress begins January 3, 2027.

Is there a data center moratorium in Texas?

Not a statewide construction ban. What is in force is a set of executive directives from Governor Abbott to state agencies, each with its own scope. The record we read does not show any of them revoking existing permits or ordering operating data centers to stop.

Date	Action	Established scope and limits
August 3, 2026	Directive to the Public Utility Commission and ERCOT; ERCOT market notice M-A080326-01	Verify data center projects advancing through ERCOT's interconnection process, with noncompliant projects denied connection. ERCOT delayed its August 7 Batch Zero classification milestone. Not evidence that any operating data center stopped.
September 14, 2026	Directive to the Texas Water Development Board	Enforce water-use reporting, coordinate with the audit, and notify TCEQ of possible permit disqualification for noncompliance. Progress update was due October 14. Not a construction pause.
September 21, 2026	Signed letter to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality	Pause issuance of all permits related to data center projects until ERCOT's review is complete; other agencies told not to advance regulatory approvals until the information is in. Progress update was due October 19. Same day, the governor said he would ask the Legislature to repeal data-center tax incentives: a request, not a repeal.
October 12 / December 10, 2026	ERCOT Data Center Impact request for information	Responses were due October 12 from developers of at least 25 MW pursuing interconnection; ERCOT intends a report on or before December 10. These are information and report dates, not expiry dates.
October 19, 2026	TCEQ response to the governor	The agency says it paused issuance and is screening pending applications and claimed authorizations. An agency's own report, not an audit of every permit, and it states no general safe harbor for permitted or under-construction projects.
October 28, 2026	TCEQ permitting-system notice	Portal changes and staff review controls for data-center applications, with system work anticipated in mid-November. Evidence the September directive is being implemented, not that it has ended.

Two things the record does not establish, because the directives do not say them: a universal exemption for every previously permitted project, and a statewide revocation of existing permits. The ERCOT mechanism reaches projects seeking interconnection; a self-supplied or off-grid project is not thereby outside TCEQ's permit pause. The October 14 and October 19 compliance reports were not located.

The governor-elect's statements, in her words and by date. Gina Hinojosa, elected governor on November 3, has not issued anything; she takes office on January 19, 2027, per Texas Tribune reporting. What she has said, with the evidence behind each line:

Date	What was said	Evidence
Campaign policy page (undated, read November 5)	Calls for an immediate pause on new data centers and a special session for legal protections and incentive repeal	Primary campaign text, not an order
September 1, 2026 campaign release	Calls for a moratorium on "all data center builds" until the Legislature acts	Primary campaign wording
October 22, 2026 video, reported November 4	A pledge covering "all data center approvals" until the Legislature passes protections	Original video auto-captions read November 6; also reported by the Texas Tribune
November 1, 2026 television interview	The reporter writes that the pause concerns new permits and would not stop projects already under construction	Reported paraphrase, not a transcript or a direct quote
November 5, 2026 CNN interview	"We need to stop what we're doing with data centers until we have those protections"	CNN transcript and Reuters syndication; no statement on permitted projects
November 5, 2026 press conference	No data center statement on permitted projects found	Captions checked November 6

Whether projects that already hold permits can finish is therefore not settled by anything on the record in her own words as of November 6. The one narrower line comes from a reporter's paraphrase about projects under construction, which says nothing about permitted projects that have not started, later expansions, or projects that need another permit. We attempted to retrieve captions from the November 1 interview video and could not; the claim stays unverified here until a transcript or a direct statement exists.

What a governor can do alone. The reviewed record shows executive direction of agencies within their legal duties, audit and enforcement coordination, appointments through the applicable process, legislative recommendations and the power to call a special session. It does not show an unrestricted power to cancel vested approvals or to repeal statutory tax exemptions: Article I, section 28 of the Texas Constitution reserves the suspension of laws to the Legislature, and Article IV covers special sessions, recommendations and the veto. That is a description of the documents, not a legal opinion on any future order.

Texas, locally. San Marcos amended its development code on June 16 to prohibit data centers in every zoning district (the amendment passed 4 to 3). Brownsville's council was reported to have given final passage on November 4 to a pause on applications in the city and its extraterritorial jurisdiction from November 5 to February 3, 2027; the official notice we opened predates the final vote. Fort Worth's first public hearing is November 10 and its tentative adoption date is February 16, 2027. Lubbock's consideration is also set for November 10. Denton and San Antonio have hearings and a council discussion on record, and no adopted pause we could verify. Hill County's May 12 pause was rescinded June 4.

Is there a data center moratorium in New York?

Yes, and it is narrower than the headlines. Executive Order 62, signed July 14, 2026, directs the Department of Environmental Conservation to hold in abeyance its discretionary permit applications for the construction or expansion of data centers that consume or can consume at least 50 MW, where the application was pending or filed later and was not deemed complete before July 14. It runs until the Department of Public Service completes a final generic environmental impact statement and associated findings. Press summaries say up to one year; the order sets a condition, not a date. Outside the order: applications DEC deemed complete before July 14, every local-government permit, and facilities used primarily for manufacturing, research, education or medical care. It is not an across-the-board construction stop.

The Legislature's bill is a different instrument with a different threshold. S10642/A11560, the Responsible Data Center Development Act, would freeze new DEC permits for data centers with peak demand of at least 20 MW for one year after its effective date, while exempting modifications and renewals of prior permits and large data centers that began construction on or before the effective date. The substitute A11560 passed both chambers on June 4, 2026. The Senate's bill page showed no delivery to the governor, signing or veto as of November 5. Keep the two apart: 50 MW is the order, 20 MW is the bill; the order is in force, the bill is not.

Is there a data center moratorium in Oregon?

Yes, and it is the broadest statewide pause in force, although it is a pause on permits, not a ban. On October 9, 2026, Governor Kotek directed the Department of Environmental Quality to use its existing authority to pause processing and issuing air and water discharge permits for new or expanded data centers until July 1, 2027. The letter names four permit types (NPDES, WPCF, ACDP and Title V) and also covers municipal applications to renew or modify wastewater plant permits to take data center discharge. It names no size threshold.

The letter leaves some things open. It does not address renewals of a data center's own existing permits. Ballard Spahr's October 20 client alert reads pending applications as frozen, and says projects that already hold every permit they need should not be directly affected, while later phases, permit modifications or municipal wastewater approvals can still be caught. That is a law firm's reading, not an agency ruling.

This sits on top of the September 8 directive pausing state-property authorizations, on the same timeline, and the HB 4084 enterprise-zone pause. The letter says the pause gives time to review recommendations from the governor's Data Center Advisory Committee ahead of the 2027 legislative session. OPB reports that Amazon, which has more than a dozen hyperscale data centers in Morrow and Umatilla counties, said it was disappointed.

What is the AI Data Center Moratorium Act? The federal bills

No federal moratorium exists. Targeted searches of White House, Department of Energy, EPA and FERC records found no nationwide agency pause; the federal executive order on data centers from July 2025, EO 14318, is about accelerating permitting. Five instruments are in Congress, read from GovInfo because Congress.gov returned access errors during our run.

Bill and sponsor	Latest verified action as of November 6	What it would do
S.4214, Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, Sen. Bernard Sanders	Introduced March 25, 2026; referred to Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation. No later action in the status record (updated September 8).	Stop construction or upgrading of defined AI data centers until specified federal safeguards become law. The text says work may not commence or proceed, so there is no blanket exemption for projects underway.
H.R.9442, Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez	Introduced June 24, 2026; referred to House Energy and Commerce and Foreign Affairs. Status record updated October 16.	The House version of the same moratorium. The March joint announcement is not this bill's introduction date.
H.R.9340, Ratepayer Protection Act, Rep. Gabe Evans	Passed the House 417 to 3 on September 16; Senate cloture on the motion to proceed failed 57 to 43 on September 30 and the motion was withdrawn. Status record updated October 31.	A cost-allocation proposal for large loads, not a moratorium. One failed cloture vote does not itself end a bill.
H.Res.1471, Data Center Bill of Rights, Rep. Ro Khanna	Submitted August 3, 2026; referred to Energy and Commerce and Judiciary. Status record updated September 15.	A nonbinding resolution calling for local autonomy and listed rights, including statewide pauses. A resolution does not impose a national pause.
S.5653, Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act	Introduced text read on GovInfo. The Senate's published schedule lists a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to H.R.2347 at about 5:30 PM Eastern on November 9, which reporting describes as the vehicle for this permitting package. That vote is procedural, not final passage.	A permitting and ratepayer bill, not a moratorium. Section 2107 covers electric loads of 20 MW or more: incremental service costs and financial assurances, for interconnections after enactment.

One project-specific federal action exists and is sometimes misread as a Nevada or federal pause: on September 1, 2026 the Interior Board of Land Appeals stayed a Bureau of Land Management right-of-way approval for the Townsite Solar 2 data center proposal near Boulder City, Nevada, pending appeal. Its later disposition was not verified.

What could data center moratoriums mean for the AI build-out?

Three things can be said from attributed sources; none is a forecast.

How much is being built. Wood Mackenzie's October 28, 2026 release counts nearly 80 GW of US data center capacity under construction, a disclosed pipeline of over 430 GW across mixed development stages, and over 60 GW of planned Texas projects under scrutiny after the September permit pause. "Under scrutiny" is the publisher's phrase; it is not 60 GW cancelled or physically stopped. JLL's August 11 midyear release counts 66 GW under construction in North America, and puts Texas at 26 GW and Virginia at 13 GW of existing plus under-construction capacity, which cannot be relabeled as construction only. CBRE's first-half 2026 figure of 7,481 MW under construction covers eight primary wholesale markets, a narrower universe. The three do not add: coverage, geography and definitions differ.

How much is being built in the states named on this page. No defensible total of capacity actually halted exists, and this page does not invent one: a state can contain capacity outside a local ordinance, below its threshold, already vested, or needing a permit the pause does not touch. The closest construction context is Cushman & Wakefield's first-half 2026 market map (published September 14), which reports megawatts under construction by the publisher's market names. Metro and cross-state markets are not state totals, and the figures are not to be summed.

State	Publisher market	Under construction, MW	Coverage limit
Texas	DFW; Austin and San Antonio; West Texas; Houston	1,720; 1,438; 2,461; 41	Four separate markets; the Wood Mackenzie 60 GW figure is planned capacity on a different basis
New York and New Jersey	NYC-NNJ	113	One shared region; not a New York or New Jersey total
Oregon	Portland and Eastern Oregon	729	Publisher region; not a verified state census
Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania	614	State-named market; exhaustiveness unverified
Virginia	Virginia	7,355	State-named market; exhaustiveness unverified
Ohio	Columbus	2,043	Metro only
Arizona	Phoenix	1,597	Metro only
Georgia	Atlanta	1,715	Metro only
Washington	Central Washington; Seattle	160; 7	Two separate publisher labels

For Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont and the other states not listed, no comparable statewide total was verified; the answer there is not established, not zero. Two figures that look like data center construction and are not: ERCOT's August reference to 474 GW of interconnection requests is a queue, about 90% of it data centers, not audited construction; Global Energy Monitor's 378 GW and 189 GW figures concern gas-fired power plant proposals tied to data centers, not data center load.

What two published estimates say. Cleanview's November 4 analysis counts 158.6 GW, about 41% of planned US capacity, in nine states where the governor or governor-elect has promised or already imposed a pause: Texas, Ohio, Georgia, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Michigan, Wisconsin and Maine. That is planned capacity under pledges and pauses, not capacity stopped. SemiAnalysis's September 15 analysis estimated about 2.3 GW genuinely delayed by local moratoriums and New York's order, before Oregon's October 9 letter and the November 3 results. The two measure different things and should not be compared or added.

Who is affected, according to the people arguing about it. CNBC's November 5 reporting put the case that tighter rules may reward companies with capacity already in hand and squeeze builders that depend on debt, quoting JPMorgan's James Sullivan to the effect that existing capacity becomes significantly more valuable under supply constraints. The Information made a similar argument the same day: pauses threaten the capacity renters and chipmakers but could free the largest buyers' cash flow and reduce competition for compute. On the other side, Lisa Abramowicz noted on November 5 that the largest companies had rallied on hopes of spending less and argued it is just as likely they end up spending more to win over communities. These are opinions, reported as such.

The closes of the three sessions after November 3 show the split those arguments describe, without saying which side is right. The builders bounced on November 6 and the split narrowed but held. Whether the moves reflect the pause news, or other things in the same sessions (the October jobs report, or IREN's November 5 quarterly results), is not something a three-day table can show.

Company	Nov 4	Nov 5	Nov 6	Three days
Amazon	+6.12%	-2.19%	-0.35%	+3.43%
Microsoft	+6.68%	-3.58%	-0.99%	+1.85%
Alphabet	+3.18%	-2.20%	+0.78%	+1.70%
Meta	+1.44%	-3.96%	+0.84%	-1.75%
Oracle	-1.95%	-6.93%	+0.82%	-8.00%
Nvidia	-3.17%	-9.26%	+2.78%	-9.70%
CoreWeave	-9.90%	-9.83%	+6.28%	-13.66%
Applied Digital	-6.74%	-14.69%	+9.74%	-12.69%
Nebius	-6.67%	-14.94%	+7.58%	-14.61%
Vertiv	-12.89%	-14.02%	+3.47%	-22.51%
IREN	-11.24%	-16.95%	+20.02%	-11.53%

Daily closes from SentiSense market data for November 4, 5 and 6, 2026; three-day figures compound the three sessions. Past moves describe the past.

No sign-up required. See how the market is reading the AI infrastructure names on the live sentiment page →

Which companies warn about data center moratoriums in SEC filings?

The risk has reached the filings. We screened 2026 filings from 42 listed companies across cloud, data center operators, miners turned AI hosts, equipment makers and utilities, and found language on moratoriums, pauses or local opposition in 17; six of those name a specific government action. The table shows eleven, with the wording checked against the filing text.

Company	Filing	In their words	Note
Microsoft	10-Q, Oct 28	"community opposition, state and local moratoriums, and hyper-local dissent"	Names no jurisdiction.
Applied Digital	10-Q, Oct 7	"A number of states have recently issued moratoriums on future AI data centers"	Names no state.
Equinix	10-Q, Oct 28	"Government limitations or moratoriums placed on data center construction"	General risk, in a given market.
Oracle	10-K, Jun 22	"Government-imposed limits or moratoria on data center construction in a given market"	General risk.
Vertiv	10-K, Feb 13	"community opposition or temporary or permanent local moratoria"	About its customers' siting and construction.
CoreWeave	10-Q, Aug 12	"moratorium on the development of data centers using 50 megawatts of power or more"	Cites New York as an example.
Riot Platforms	10-Q, Nov 4	"could delay or prevent those projects"	Texas actions and future projects. Says existing energized capacity is not subject to the audit.
Cipher Digital	10-Q, Nov 2	"the pause could delay future projects, expansions or modifications"	Texas. Says it does not expect a material near-term impact.
TeraWulf	10-Q, Aug 5	"New York State's temporary moratorium on certain data center permitting"	Says it does not currently expect a material effect on the Cayuga timeline.
CleanSpark	10-Q, Aug 6	"temporary data center and battery energy storage system moratorium imposed by Austin County"	A Texas county, cited with the state audit.
American Electric Power	10-Q, Oct 28	"paused Batch Zero classification and study activity"	Describes ERCOT's pause in Texas.

A disclosed risk is a warning, not proof that any project has stopped, and companies include risk language for many reasons. Several of these filings say the company expects no material near-term effect. This is a selection of filings, not a ranking of exposure.

What to watch, with dates

November 9, 2026: The Senate's scheduled procedural vote on the motion to proceed to H.R.2347, reported as the vehicle for the permitting package in S.5653.
November 10, 2026: Fort Worth's first public hearing on its proposed 90-day pause; Lubbock's council consideration of its proposed pause.
November 17, 2026: Loudoun County, Virginia's next discussion of a proposal to delay final votes on data center and substation applications for up to 12 months.
About November 24, 2026: Hillsboro, Oregon's 120-day pause reaches the end of its stated term.
December 1, 2026: Nashville's pause ends; Oregon's temporary enterprise-zone rule expires (the statutory incentive pause runs longer, to 90 days after the 2027 session adjourns).
Early December 2026: Boulder County, Colorado (about December 2), Hayward (about December 4) and San Diego (about December 11) reach the end of their stated terms unless extended.
December 1, 2026: Denton's anticipated second reading and vote on its proposed pause.
December 10, 2026: ERCOT's intended report date on its data center review, the condition the Texas TCEQ permit pause is tied to. A report is not an automatic lifting.
About December 22, 2026: Jackson County, Missouri's 180-day term ends unless extended.
December 24 and 31, 2026: Sedgwick County, Kansas's latest extension ends; Frederick County, Maryland's order and Oklahoma City's pause reach their stated end dates.
January 2027: Terms start in Michigan and New Mexico (January 1), Wisconsin (January 4), Maine and New Hampshire (January 6), Georgia and Ohio (January 11) and Texas (January 19). The new Congress begins January 3. Texas's regular session runs January 12 to May 31. Nothing in these pledges is operative before an order, a budget or a bill exists.
January and February 2027: Pima County (about January 20), Bannock County (about January 26), Harpersville and Brownsville (February 3), Fort Worth's tentative adoption date (February 16), Larimer County (February 25).
July 1, 2027: Oregon's pauses on state air and water permits and on state-property authorizations reach their stated end date.
The 2027 legislative sessions: Virginia's HB 1515, SB 843 and SB 850; North Carolina's H1189 if it moves from House Rules; Pennsylvania's SB 1345; any Texas bill that follows the governor-elect's pledge or Governor Abbott's incentive-repeal request.
No date: New York's final generic environmental impact statement, which ends EO 62's hold; action on New York's 20 MW bill; the later disposition of the Nevada federal-land stay.
Longer terms: Carroll County, Maryland to February 19, 2028; Montgomery County, Maryland to February 10, 2028; Gilroy to September 3, 2027; Lexington-Fayette to October 31, 2027; Charlotte to October 18, 2027; Reno to August 31, 2027; Arizona's incentive pause to June 30, 2029.

Sources

All documents read November 5 and 6, 2026, Pacific time. Each table row links its own primary document; the list below covers the sources cited in the prose.

New York: Executive Order 62, sections 1 and 6; A11560 bill history.
Texas: August 3 audit directive; ERCOT market notice M-A080326-01; September 14 TWDB directive; September 21 signed TCEQ letter and release; ERCOT Data Center Impact RFI; TCEQ permitting-system notice; Texas Constitution and governor's duties. Governor-elect statements: campaign policy page; September 1 campaign release; Texas Tribune, November 4; KTAB interview report, syndicated; Reuters report of the November 5 CNN interview, syndicated. Local: San Marcos council recap; Brownsville notice and reported final passage; Fort Worth process page; Hill County rescission, reported.
Federal: S.4214 text and status; H.R.9442 text and status; H.R.9340 text, House roll call 312, Senate floor activity, September 30 and status; H.Res.1471 text and status; EO 14318; IBLA stay order.
November 3 ballots: Ballotpedia, data center-related ballot measures, 2026; Bangor Daily News on the Maine towns; Maine Public; official returns as linked in the tables.
Capacity: Wood Mackenzie, October 28, 2026; JLL, August 11, 2026; CBRE, North America Data Center Trends H1 2026; Cushman & Wakefield Americas data center update and its map; Global Energy Monitor.
Who is affected: CNBC, November 5, 2026; The Information, November 5 post; Lisa Abramowicz, November 5 post.
State and local documents not listed above are linked in their table rows.

Update log

November 6, 2026: First edition. Added before publication: Oregon's October 9 permit letter, the governors table, conditional orders and laws in Maryland, Delaware and Alabama, and the November 9 Senate vote. Facts current to the afternoon of November 6, 2026, Pacific time.

Statuses are as the primary documents showed them on November 5 and 6, 2026. Where a row rests on reporting rather than an adopted text it says so. This page describes public records; it is not legal advice, takes no position on any policy, and is not investment advice.