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.
Macon County
Mixed Data Center Policies
Illinois offers tax breaks to data centers that meet investment, hiring, environmental, and labor conditions. Upcoming rules would tighten emissions and limit backup-generator use at certain permitted facilities; an advisory cabinet adds no requirements itself.
Rating and summary from Illinois statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Macon County.
Specific to Macon County only.
pending · County measureProposes a six-month pause on data center development in Macon County, Illinois.Macon County Proposed Temporary Moratorium on Data Center Development
What this means
If enacted, the proposed six-month moratorium would temporarily stop data center development in Macon County, making it a serious but time-limited barrier. The source describes it as proposed, so it is not established as already in effect.
Timing
- Ends
- six (6) months
The source identifies the measure as a proposed temporary moratorium and links to an ordinance establishing a six (6)-month moratorium. The supplied source does not specify the date from which the six-month period runs or any extension conditions.
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Proposes a six-month moratorium on data center development in Macon County.
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