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.
Village of Mundelein
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 Village of Mundelein.
repealed · Village of MundeleinClarifies that data centers are not classified as offices, manufacturing, storage, utility, or other listed uses under Mundelein’s zoning definitions.Village of Mundelein, Illinois Ordinance O-26-07-62 (2026) — Data Centers, Battery Energy Storage Systems, Mechanical Equipment Text Amendments
What this means
The amendment says data centers cannot be classified as several other uses, including offices and manufacturing, which may limit zoning routes for building or expanding them (“Office” does not include data centers). It does not ban data centers or add operating requirements, so the practical effect appears minor; the sources do not show which zoning districts allow data centers as a separate use.
People behind it
- Amanda Orenchuk
Director of Community Development who prepared and recommended the corrected text-amendment ordinance.
- Trustee Tony Ugaste
Moved adoption of the original data centers, battery energy storage systems, and mechanical equipment text-amendment ordinance.
- Trustee Daniel Juarez
Seconded adoption of the original text-amendment ordinance.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements2
Data centers are expressly excluded from several existing zoning-use classifications, including contractor storage yards, heavy retail/rental/service, general and light manufacturing, mini-warehouses, offices, outdoor storage yards, research-and-development facilities, private utilities, and wireless telecommunications facilities. A data center therefore cannot qualify for zoning treatment under those classifications. The amended definitions state that these uses are not data centers.
Data centers are excluded from the definition of mechanical equipment, which covers accessory utility, building, operational, environmental-control, emergency, energy-generation, and energy-storage equipment. The ordinance instead treats a data center as a principal land use, preventing it from being classified merely as mechanical equipment or benefiting from regulations applicable to that accessory equipment. Mechanical equipment does not include facilities constituting a principal land use, including a data center.
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