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Fort Worth’s city council just voted unanimously to begin the data center moratorium process, but the…
KERA reported that the vote was the first move toward a moratorium, not the final adoption of one.
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Aurora, Colorado just rejected a six-month data center moratorium on a 6-5 tiebreaker…
Aurora's City Council voted 6-5 on Monday night to reject a moratorium on new data center construction, with the mayor casting the tiebreaking vote.
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Plain City, Ohio just paused all new data center development for a full year, joining a…
What Plain City is really doing is exposing a coordination failure.
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Florida’s Amendment 3 would strip $8.78 billion a year from cities and counties…
The exemption would rise to $150,000 of assessed value in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028.
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Ohio’s data center tax break requires only $1.5 million in annual payroll to…
Governor Mike DeWine paused new exemption approvals in May 2026 and confirmed on August 6 that the freeze will hold through the end of his term.
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World Liberty Financial’s largest disclosed investment came from a man under an…
Aqua 1 Foundation registered its website on May 28, 2025.
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Aurora rejected a moratorium, but it did not reject the six-month proposal named in the…
Aurora City Council voted 7-4 on August 10, 2026, to direct staff to develop data-center-specific regulations.
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Aurora rejects data center moratorium, gives staff 35 days to write water and zoning…
The duration of the rejected pause is less clear than initial accounts suggest.
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Tucson approves strict data center zoning in Arizona, requiring council vote for any…
The Tucson City Council voted 6-1 on August 5, 2026, to adopt new regulations for large-scale data centers.
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Tucson council votes 6-1 to bar data centers over 20 MW within half a mile of homes and…
The new ordinance, which takes effect September 4, 2026, does not permit data centers anywhere in the city by right.