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.
City of Tarrant
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Slightly Anti-Data Center Policies
Tarrant has enacted a one-year pause on approvals for data-center business licenses, making new construction or expansion harder; the description does not say existing centers must stop operating.
Rating from Alabama statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for City of Tarrant.
current law · City of TarrantTarrant is reported to have adopted a one-year moratorium related to data center business licensing.Alabama Tarrant data center moratorium (2026)
What this means
This would make building or expanding data centers in Tarrant substantially harder for a year because the city would pause approvals for data center business licenses (the moratorium lasts one year). The source does not say existing data centers would have to stop operating.
Timing
- Ends
- one year
People behind it
- Tarrant city leaders
Passed the one-year moratorium on approving data center business licenses.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
Tarrant imposed a one-year moratorium on approving business licenses for data centers. The moratorium lasts for one year.
Sources
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