The Data Center Divide
A policy snapshot ahead of the 2026 midterms. Mapping data center incentives, restrictions, and bans through legislation, regulations, and executive actions across all 50 states and 1,462 local jurisdictions.
Morgan County
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Slightly Anti-Data Center Policies
Morgan County has enacted a one-year pause on required permits and site-plan approvals for new or expanded data centers in unincorporated residential areas.
Rating from Alabama statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Morgan County.
Specific to Morgan County only.
current law · Unincorporated residential areas and developments; incorporated municipalities are excluded.Establishes an immediate, one-year moratorium on the acceptance, processing, or approval of permits, site plans, subdivisions, and amendments for new or expanded data centers, bitcoin-mining facilities, and similar high-impact facilities in unincorporated residential areas.Morgan County Commission Resolution 26-302 (2026)
What this means
If enacted, the measure would stop required permit and site-plan approvals for new data centers and expansions in unincorporated residential areas for one year. That would substantially delay development, but it is limited to those areas and does not impose a countywide ban on operating existing centers.
Timing
- Ends
- one year from the effective date of this Resolution
The moratorium becomes effective immediately and expires one year later, unless extended or repealed before then.
People behind it
- Greg Abercrombie
Morgan County commissioner who offered and moved for adoption of Resolution 26-302 establishing the data center moratorium.
- Jeff Clark
Morgan County commissioner who seconded the motion to adopt Resolution 26-302.
- Morgan County Commission
County governing body that adopted and enacted Resolution 26-302 and undertook to study appropriate regulations.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements2
A moratorium immediately prohibits the acceptance, processing, or approval of required permits, site-development plans, subdivisions, and site-development-plan amendments in unincorporated residential areas when their material purpose is to develop a new data center, bitcoin-mining facility, or similar facility, or to expand an existing data-center use, including increasing its gross floor area.
The moratorium applies for one year from the resolution’s effective date, unless the County Commission extends or repeals it earlier.
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