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Marietta, Georgia just approved a second data center in a 5-2 vote despite a six-month moratorium the council passed last month, because the 18-megawatt application was filed before the freeze took effect

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Volusia County, Florida just directed staff to draft a six-month moratorium on AI data centers while Edgewater inside the same county moved a permanent voter ban to the November ballot, splitting one county between a proposed study pause and a possible citizen shutdown

Ohio’s data center sales tax exemption cost the state nearly $1.6 billion last year, and Governor DeWine has now frozen it through the end of his term, leaving the next governor to decide whether taxpayers ever see a return

Fort Worth now requires proof of state grid approval before data centers can file

Douglas County, Colorado just approved a $19 million tax rebate for a Parker data center that will create 16 jobs, meaning county taxpayers are subsidizing each position at more than $1.1 million over the 35-year deal

Fort Worth’s city council just voted unanimously to begin the data center moratorium process, but the city’s timeline puts its possible start on February 16, 2027, and zoning applications filed before then remain outside it

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Aurora, Colorado just rejected a six-month data center moratorium on a 6-5 tiebreaker from the mayor, becoming the only major Front Range city to keep approvals open while nearly every neighbor — Denver, Boulder County, Broomfield, Jefferson County — has already hit pause

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Plain City, Ohio just paused all new data center development for a full year, joining a growing list of small Ohio villages that decided the incentives from Columbus are moving faster than local water and power can absorb

Florida’s Amendment 3 would strip $8.78 billion a year from cities and counties by exempting the first $250,000 of every homesteaded house, and the 32 percent of Floridians who rent get nothing and pay through their landlord’s bill

Ohio’s data center tax break requires only $1.5 million in annual payroll to qualify — roughly fifteen engineers on a multibillion-dollar campus — and the program cost the state $1.6 billion last year, nearly twelve times what officials projected

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