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.
Broward County
Mixed Data Center Policies
Florida’s rules require large data centers to cover their utility-service costs, and water permits may involve added planning and hearings that delay projects; utility service can be denied to some facilities. Qualifying large centers can receive sales-tax breaks, while separate access controls apply to the state’s own data center.
Rating and summary from Florida statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Broward County.
Specific to Broward County only.
pending · Unincorporated areasDirects the County Attorney to draft an ordinance temporarily halting development of large-scale data centers in unincorporated Broward County for one year.Broward County Motion 26-1386 (2026)
What this means
If enacted, this would pause development of large-scale data centers for one year in unincorporated Broward County, making new construction and likely expansion substantially harder during that period (one-year moratorium on development). It does not expressly ban operating existing centers, and it would not apply outside the unincorporated county.
Timing
- Ends
- one year
The measure directs the County Attorney’s Office to draft an ordinance establishing a temporary, one-year moratorium on developing large-scale data centers in unincorporated Broward County. The sources do not specify the moratorium’s start date or an explicit calendar expiration date.
People behind it
- Lamar P. Fisher
County Commissioner who proposed and sponsored the motion directing preparation of the one-year moratorium ordinance.
- County Attorney’s Office
Office directed by the motion to draft the proposed ordinance establishing the temporary moratorium.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
Directs the County Attorney’s Office to draft an ordinance establishing a temporary, one-year moratorium on developing large-scale data centers, as defined in Section 373.203(4), Florida Statutes, within unincorporated Broward County.
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