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The Data Center Divide

Macoupin 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 Macoupin County.

Specific to Macoupin County only.

pending · County measure
Pauses (then reopens) consideration of a nonbinding resolution opposing data centers; it does not prohibit or regulate data center development.Macoupin County Board Resolution Opposing Data Center Siting (2026)

What this means

The county’s resolution expresses opposition but does not impose rules on data center construction or operation; county counsel said the county lacks authority to restrict development. The 12-month pause applied only to considering the resolution, not to data center projects, so it creates no meaningful development barrier or benefit. The county cannot restrict where businesses may locate

Timing

Ends
12 months after adoption

The moratorium applies to consideration of the resolution opposing data centers, not to discussion of the data-center issue generally. The board later resumed broader discussions; no other provisions are identified.

People behind it

  • Recommended the ordinance placing the Medora ambulance special-service-area advisory referendum on the ballot and developed the special-service-area commission resolution.

  • Recommended the Motor Fuel Tax Fund appropriation increase and other finance-related resolutions.

  • Reviewed and recommended the contracted grant-writer program for local governments and referred the data-center issue for further evaluation.

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  • Proposed the 12-month moratorium on the data-center opposition resolution and referral to the Economic Development Committee.

  • Co-proposed or seconded measures concerning the data-center moratorium, bridge projects, the State's Attorney appellate program, the intern grant paperwork, and other resolutions.

  • Proposed or seconded resolutions concerning elected-official salary adjustments, the jail-lock project, the county-property sale, the ADA-compliance contract, the grant-writer program, and other measures.

  • Proposed or seconded the elected-official salary resolution, the Blooming Grove Road Bridge resolution, and the Medora ambulance referendum ordinance.

  • Proposed or seconded resolutions concerning the courthouse fund transfer, jail-lock project, bridge projects, and the State's Attorney appellate program.

  • Proposed or seconded the courthouse fund-transfer resolution, the Medora ambulance referendum ordinance, and the municipal waste-management plan.

  • Co-proposed amendments to the Blooming Grove Road Bridge resolution and the North Road Bridge resolution.

  • Co-proposed adoption of the amended Blooming Grove Road Bridge resolution and participated in advancing the grant-writer proposal.

  • Proposed or seconded the county-property sale resolution, the ADA-compliance contract, and the grant-writer program.

  • Proposed the ordinance authorizing the Illinois separation advisory referendum and seconded the special-service-area commission resolution.

  • Seconded the ordinance authorizing the Illinois separation advisory referendum.

  • Proposed or seconded the transfer of funds for AFSCME back pay and the special-service-area commission resolution.

  • Seconded the agreement language and recruitment of grant writers for the local-government energy-grant program.

Sources

Specific to Macoupin County only.

failed · County measure
Confirms that Macoupin County cannot regulate or pause data center development without specific state authorization.Macoupin County Economic Development Committee Minutes — Data Center Discussion (May 20, 2026)

What this means

The minutes describe a discussion, not a proposed data-center rule: county counsel said Macoupin County lacks authority to regulate or impose a moratorium (“cannot restrict where businesses may locate”). So this measure adds no meaningful restrictions, costs, or benefits for data centers.

People behind it

  • Moved to approve the ordinance authorizing the advisory referendum on the Illinois separation question.

  • Seconded the motion to approve the ordinance authorizing the advisory referendum on the Illinois separation question.

Sources

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