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 Pinellas Park
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Strongly Anti-Data Center Policies
Pinellas Park has an enacted ordinance that the rationale describes as a proposed temporary moratorium, blocking city approvals for data centers and large-load facilities; its duration is unspecified, so it is not described as a permanent ban.
Rating from Pinellas County as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for City of Pinellas Park.
current law · City of Pinellas ParkProposes temporarily halting city approvals for new, expanded, or intensified data centers and large-load facilities in Pinellas Park.Pinellas Park Ordinance 2026-22 (2026)
What this means
The proposed temporary moratorium would block city permits and other approvals for building, expanding, or intensifying data centers and large-load facilities (moratorium on city approvals). That would make development substantially harder while it is in effect; the sources do not say how long it would last, so it is not treated as a permanent ban.
Timing
The measure establishes a temporary moratorium on specified approvals for data centers and related facilities, but the provided sources do not state its duration or expiration condition.
People behind it
- City of Pinellas Park
Identified as the municipality proposing Ordinance No. 2026-22.
- Community Development
Requested the measure.
- City Council
Legislative committee responsible for considering the measure.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
Imposes a temporary moratorium within Pinellas Park on accepting, processing, reviewing, approving, or issuing building permits, rezonings, site plans, conditional-use approvals, variances, comprehensive-plan amendments, or other City approvals for the construction, establishment, expansion, or intensification of data centers, data-center facilities, large-scale data centers, and large-load customer facilities.
Sources
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