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Newsroom: data center story leads

What is coming up and what just changed, rebuilt from the Census every time it updates: hearings, pauses, lawsuits and decisions, figures you can quote with their method, and a local angle for every state. Every item links to its source. Free to use with credit.

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Hearings and votes in the next 30 days

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New moratorium actions

31 actions in the last 60 days.

  1. City of Charlotte NC
    Extended · 11 months. Halts approval of new data center permits; existing permits are unaffected. The council voted unanimously on October 26, 2026 to extend the 150-day pause adopted June 8, 2026, which was due to end November 5, 2026. WFAE
  2. City of Hayward CA
    Adopted · up to two years. Moratorium on new data center proposals in the city. Local News Matters
  3. City of Memphis TN
    Adopted · 135 days. Pause on new data centers while the council drafts land-use standards; a separate year-long proposal failed on a 6-6 tie. FOX13 Memphis
  4. City of Cleveland OH
    Extended · about 3 months. Freezes zoning permits and occupancy certificates for new standalone data centers and expansions of existing ones; operating facilities can stay open. Ends January 29, 2027, or earlier if council enacts permanent rules. Vote count not reported in the cited article. Baxtel (citing ideastream)
  5. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government KY
    Extended · about 12 months. County-wide hold on data center permits, development plans and rezonings. Adopted June 9, 2026 with an initial end date of October 31, 2026; the Urban County Council voted 11-0 on October 8, 2026 to extend it. Second readings on removing data processing centers as a principal use in several zones were set for October 22, 2026. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government
  6. City of Indio CA
    Extended. Second and final extension allowed under state law; the pause on applications to build, convert or expand data centers (including AI computing and crypto-mining sites) now runs to October 16, 2027 while the city drafts permanent rules. NBC Palm Springs
  7. City and County of San Francisco CA
    Adopted · 45 days. Citywide pause on new data centers, effective immediately. Reporting says it can be extended up to 22 months if the Planning Department's study finds significant impacts, or lead to permanent controls. The San Francisco Standard
  8. City of Raleigh NC
    Adopted · 6 months. Council voted 7-1 for a six-month pause: no new data center site application can be approved and no construction can begin while the city develops standards for larger data centers. Spectrum News 1

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Lawsuits filed

6 cases filed in the last 120 days.

  1. One Hundred Miles, Inc. et al. v. Effingham County Industrial Development Authority and Octans GA
    A conservation group and five residents, represented by SELC, allege the IDA violated Georgia's Open Meetings and Open Records Acts in approving the OpenAI affiliate's tax abatement and land deal, and seek to void those agreements. Project Camellia WTOC
  2. Residents’ challenge to Effingham County Ordinance 2026-352
    Three residents ask the court to throw out the zoning ordinance and stop the county from using it unless the required zoning procedures are followed; the suit does not ask the court to stop Project Camellia. Project Camellia Effingham Herald
  3. Perry Township residents v. Perry Township Board of Trustees et al.
    Residents allege the township's amended noise ordinance and a tax-exemption consent resolution were adopted in violation of the Ohio Revised Code and the Open Meetings Act; Panattoni, the Stark County commissioners, the City of Canton and the Perry Local Schools board are also named. Perry Township Data Center Ideastream Public Media
  4. DCB Nashville, LLC v. The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, No. 3:26-cv-01143
    The DC BLOX entity alleges Metro's data center moratorium and related ordinances violate due process, equal protection and vested property rights and constitute a regulatory taking, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief and damages. DC BLOX Nashville Data Center U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (via WKRN)
  5. Tonawanda Seneca Nation et al. v. Genesee County IDA and Town of Alabama officials
    Plaintiffs argue the 2012 incentive zoning agreement between the Town of Alabama and the IDA underpinning the STAMP industrial park violates state law. Stream Data Centers STAMP Campus Investigative Post
  6. NV Energy v. Tract
    NV Energy sued to keep a dispute over power delivery and infrastructure costs for the South Valley and Peru Ridge campuses before the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada rather than in the private arbitration Tract is seeking. Fleet Data Centers TRIC campuses (South Valley and Peru Ridge) CBS News

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Decisions and milestones

28 dated vote, approval, permit, deal or construction steps in the last 45 days.

  1. Amazon Web Services data center campus, Madison and St. Clair townships OH Proposed
    Trenton voters pass Issue 17, barring data centers over 25 MW in city limits, with about 80% (unofficial results, not yet certified); WVXU says it blocks plans for Trenton to annex land for a 1,000 MW Amazon data center WVXU
  2. Project Mila OH Under construction
    Trenton voters pass Issue 17, a charter amendment barring data centers over 25 MW, with about 80% of the vote (unofficial Butler County Board of Elections results, not yet certified). WVXU says it puts the 250 MW Prologis facility into question; Prologis told WCPO the result does not affect its project, and whether the project has vested rights is unsettled. Work so far is site work WVXU
  3. Salem Township Innovation Campus PA Under construction
    Amazon posts a news item on its Salem Township campaign page linking a one-page summary of a $22 million Community Benefits Agreement Amazon
  4. Project Cannoli MI Approved
    Michigan Attorney General petitions the Commission for rehearing of the contract approval, arguing the 20-year cost accounting could leave other customers subsidizing the data center in some years Michigan Public
  5. Project Thunderbird OK Proposed
    At a special meeting the City Commission approves all three rezoning requests and the plan amendment, 6-1; emergency clauses did not pass. Two areas move from agricultural to heavy industrial and a third partly to industrial, covering two of the four potential campuses City of Enid
  6. Project Camellia GA Proposed
    Effingham County commissioners vote unanimously to contract Charles Abbott Associates for Phase 1 plan review, inspection and permitting services; the chairman recuses because he works for Georgia Power Savannah Business Journal
  7. Google Hermantown Data Center MN Proposed
    Hermantown Planning & Zoning Commission votes to recommend approval of Google's special use permit request to the City Council; no Council vote was shown on the page City of Hermantown
  8. PNK Group Wisconsin Rapids Data Center WI Denied
    Common Council rejects the conditional use permit after the planning committee recommended denial for missing information WLUK Fox 11 (WSAW report)
  9. Google Hermantown Data Center MN Proposed
    Google says it will no longer seek tax abatement for the Hermantown project, per the city project page City of Hermantown
  10. Kenwood Commons NY Proposed
    Residents and invited experts hold a public forum on the proposal's effect on electric bills and the grid; no government vote is scheduled in the coverage WRGB CBS6 Albany

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Figures you can quote

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187

Tracked projects

The Data Center Census tracks 187 major U.S. data center projects in 36 states, each with a sourced record. (Data Center Census, as of Nov 7, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/projects)

Projects with a researched, sourced record. Not a count of every data center in the country. Method and list

143.98 GW

Capacity in the pipeline

Tracked U.S. data center projects that are proposed, approved, under construction or operating publish 143.98 GW of planned capacity; running flat out for a year, that is the electricity of 116.9 million U.S. homes. (Data Center Census, as of Nov 7, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/if-it-all-gets-built)

Sum of published capacity for 94 active projects; homes at the EIA average of 10,791 kWh a year. A ceiling, not a forecast. Method and list

48

Under construction

48 tracked data center projects are under construction in the U.S., with 72.76 GW of published capacity. (Data Center Census, as of Nov 7, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/projects)

Projects whose sources show site work or building has begun. Capacity is the full planned figure. Method and list

127

Moratorium actions

Local and state governments have taken 127 recorded actions on data center moratoriums in 28 states, including 117 adoptions, extensions and statewide orders. (Data Center Census, as of Nov 7, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/moratoriums)

Every pause, extension, rejection and reversal confirmed in a notice or news report. A floor, not a census. Method and list

38

Court cases

The Census records 38 court cases over tracked data center projects, 30 of them pending. (Data Center Census, as of Nov 7, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/lawsuits)

Cases confirmed against a filing or news report. Status is as of each source’s date. Method and list

47

AI data centers

The Census counts 47 active AI data center projects in 21 states as of Nov 7, 2026: 10 operating, 19 under construction, 4 approved and 14 proposed. Another 5 were paused, cancelled or denied. (Data Center Census, as of Nov 7, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/ai-data-centers)

Projects whose developer or named tenant is an AI company or whose sources describe AI use, each with its evidence. Method and list

0

Hearings in 30 days

0 public hearings, votes or court dates on tracked data center projects are scheduled in the next 30 days. (Data Center Census, as of Nov 7, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/hearings)

Dates on the record from agendas, notices and reports. Agendas change; confirm with the body holding the meeting. Method and list

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