Moratorium tracker

Data center moratoriums in Wisconsin

4 moratorium actions in 4 jurisdictions in Wisconsin, newest first: 3 adopted, extended or announced, 1 pending. Each entry links to its source.

Is there a data center moratorium in Wisconsin?

No statewide pause for Wisconsin is in the tracker; the actions on this page are local. Locally, 3 jurisdictions adopted, extended or announced a pause: Village of Wrightstown, Dane County and Manitowoc County.

Statuses are as of each source’s date; check with the jurisdiction before relying on one.

Moratorium actions: 4
Jurisdictions: 4
Adopted, extended or announced: 3
Rejected, lifted or set aside: 0

Every tracked Wisconsin moratorium

Jurisdiction	Action	Length	What the source says
Town of Beloit Wisconsin · town	Vote to draft a pause Aug 17, 2026	12 months	Supervisors voted 4-0 on a resolution starting the process for a 12-month moratorium; a public hearing and an ordinance were still to come. Beloit Daily News Project Cornmaze Source excerpt “calling for a 12-month moratorium on data center projects”
Village of Wrightstown Wisconsin · village	Adopted Jul 2026	one year	Moratorium on data center projects in the village. NBC 26 Source excerpt “The Village of Wrightstown passed a one-year moratorium on data center projects Tuesday night”
Dane County Wisconsin · county	Adopted Jun 2026	— until Dec 2027	Pause until December 2027 on hyperscale data center applications for zoning permits. Isthmus Source excerpt “The Dane County Board unanimously approved a data center moratorium Thursday, pausing zoning permit applications for hyperscale data centers until December 2027.”
Manitowoc County Wisconsin · county	Adopted Apr 2026	18 months	Moratorium on data center permitting. WPR Source excerpt “the Manitowoc County Board unanimously approved an 18-month moratorium on data center permitting Tuesday night.”

Dates are the date of the vote or order where the source gives one; otherwise the entry shows when it was reported. Lengths, end dates and scope appear only where the cited source states them. Expand any row for a verbatim excerpt from its source.

Tracked projects in these jurisdictions

Project	Status	Jurisdiction and action
Cloverleaf, Village of Wrightstown Wrightstown, Brown County, WI	Rumored	Village of Wrightstown: adopted Jul 2026
Project Cornmaze Beloit, Rock County, WI	Proposed	Town of Beloit: vote to draft a pause Aug 17, 2026
QTS DeForest Data Center Campus DeForest, Dane County, WI	Cancelled	Dane County: adopted Jun 2026

Matched by county, city or the project a source names. Being inside a jurisdiction with a moratorium does not mean a project is covered; many pauses exempt applications already filed or approved, and a county pause usually leaves incorporated towns free to decide. Some entries above note an exemption their source reports; check each entry’s source for others.

Moratorium actions in Wisconsin project records

Date	Action	Project
Aug 17, 2026	Town of Beloit board votes 4-0 on a resolution calling for a 12-month data center moratorium; a public hearing and an ordinance are still required Beloit Daily News	Project Cornmaze Beloit, Rock County, WI
Aug 10, 2026	Plan Commission holds a major public hearing on the PNK proposal and votes 6-0 to begin drafting a 12-month data center moratorium that would not apply to this project WAOW	PNK Group Wisconsin Rapids Data Center Wisconsin Rapids, Wood County, WI
Jul 31, 2026	Town of Beloit supervisors reject the cost reimbursement agreement with Panattoni and begin the process toward a 12-month data center moratorium, two days after the Town of Turtle took similar steps Beloit Daily News	Project Cornmaze Beloit, Rock County, WI

Permanent rules in Wisconsin

Wausau: Wausau data center zoning ordinanceadopted · Jul 14, 2026

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Wisconsin data center moratoriums: common questions

Is there a data center moratorium in Wisconsin?

How many Wisconsin communities have paused data centers?

The tracker records 3 local governments in Wisconsin that adopted, extended or announced a data center pause. The tracker lists actions confirmed in a published notice or news report, so it is a floor rather than a complete census.

How long do data center moratoriums in Wisconsin last?

Where the source states a length, Wisconsin pauses run from one year (Village of Wrightstown) to 18 months (Manitowoc County). 1 other action has no stated fixed length or runs until a set date or condition.

Which tracked data center projects are in Wisconsin jurisdictions with a moratorium?

Cloverleaf, Village of Wrightstown and QTS DeForest Data Center Campus. Sitting inside a jurisdiction with a moratorium does not mean a project is covered: many pauses exempt applications already filed or approved, and a county pause usually leaves incorporated towns free to decide. Project Cornmaze is in a jurisdiction that declined to adopt one.

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Last updated Nov 7, 2026. Figures may change as records are updated — include the date you retrieved them.

APA	`Data Center Census. (2026). Data center moratoriums in Wisconsin. Retrieved from https://datacentercensus.com/moratoriums/wisconsin`
MLA	`“Data center moratoriums in Wisconsin.” Data Center Census, Nov 7, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/moratoriums/wisconsin.`
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