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.
McDonough 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 McDonough County.
Specific to McDonough County only.
failed · County measureDoes not impose a data center moratorium; the county board rejected the proposed one-year pause.McDonough County Data Center Moratorium Resolution (2026)
What this means
If enacted, the proposed one-year data center moratorium would cause a substantial delay to covered projects; the minutes do not say exactly which activities it would pause, and do not indicate it would shut down operating centers. The board amended the proposal to a one-year moratorium, but the amended resolution failed.
Timing
The proposed data center moratorium was amended from two years to one year, but the amended resolution failed on the final vote. Therefore, no operative moratorium was adopted and no expiration applies.
People behind it
- Ken Durkin
Moved in committee and at the County Board to approve the Data Center Moratorium Resolution.
- Clayton Cook
Seconded the committee motion to approve the Data Center Moratorium Resolution and move it to the full board.
- Joe Erlandson
Seconded the County Board motion to approve the Data Center Moratorium Resolution.
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- Dana Walker
Moved the amendment reducing the proposed moratorium from two years to one year.
- Riley Kirby
Seconded the amendment reducing the proposed moratorium from two years to one year.
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A proposed moratorium would have temporarily barred data centers for one year; the original proposal called for two years, but the amended resolution failed at the full Board.
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