The Data Center Divide
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City of Ormond Beach
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Strongly Anti-Data Center Policies
Ormond Beach has enacted an 18-month pause on applications and approvals for new data centers and expansions, including small facilities. It does not expressly restrict existing centers from operating.
Rating from Volusia County as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for City of Ormond Beach.
current law · City of Ormond BeachPauses for 18 months the City of Ormond Beach’s acceptance or approval of applications for data centers, large-scale data centers, and other large-load utility users.Ormond Beach 18-Month Data Center Moratorium (2026)
What this means
The measure would pause applications and approvals for new data centers and expansions, including small facilities, for 18 months across Ormond Beach (applications related to data centers are temporarily suspended). That is a major temporary barrier to building, though the ordinance does not expressly stop existing data centers from operating.
Timing
- Ends
- eighteen months after the effective date
The moratorium takes effect immediately upon adoption and terminates eighteen months later. The City Commission may extend it for additional periods of up to 90 days per extension if specified findings are made.
People behind it
- Ormond Beach City Commission
Introduced, considered, and adopted Ordinance No. 2026-11 imposing the 18-month data-center moratorium.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements7
Imposes an 18-month moratorium, effective immediately upon adoption, on submitting or accepting applications related to data centers, large-scale data centers, and large-load utility users.
During the moratorium, the City may not consider or issue building permits, site-plan approvals, development orders, development agreements, special-exception or conditional uses, rezonings, comprehensive-plan amendments, or other official approvals for covered facilities.
The moratorium applies to all data center types, including smaller facilities that meet the technical definition of a data center, as well as large-scale data centers and other large-load utility users.
The City must suspend action on pending applications for covered facilities, accept no new applications, and permit no new covered activities or facilities while the moratorium is in effect.
The City must return funds accepted for pending applications, permits, approvals, or business tax receipts covered by the moratorium.
The City Commission may extend the moratorium for additional periods of up to 90 days per extension if it finds that the underlying issues continue, corrective legislative action is progressing, and additional time is reasonably needed.
The restrictions apply throughout the City's corporate and municipal boundaries, including areas later added through annexation.
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