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 Huntingburg
Mixed Data Center Policies
Indiana offers qualifying data centers sales-tax breaks and possible local property-tax exemptions, while utility-related requirements may add costs or delay projects. State energy planning could support reliable power, but no new projects or direct incentives are guaranteed.
Rating and summary from Indiana statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for City of Huntingburg.
pending · City of HuntingburgProposes to define data centers, identify where they may be located, require special-use approval, pause approvals for six months, and set development standards.Indiana Huntingburg Chapter 153 data center and BESS moratorium amendment (2026)
What this means
The proposal would pause consideration of data center approvals for six months, and make them require special-use approval in allowed districts (six-month moratorium). It would also add development standards, whose details are not provided, so the full long-term effect is unclear.
Timing
- Ends
- after six (6) months
The proposed moratorium on consideration of approval of Data Centers and BESS is established for a six-month period. The source does not specify the date from which the six months is measured. The notice does not state any extension condition.
People behind it
- Advisory Plan Commission of the City of Huntingburg
Proposed the amendments to Chapter 153 and is responsible for conducting the public hearings and considering the measure.
- Paul Lake
Planning Director who signed and issued the public-hearing notice and serves as the point of contact for the proposed amendments.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements4
A six-month moratorium would prevent the Commission from considering approval of data centers, delaying approval applications during that period. six (6) months
Data centers would be permitted only in the zoning districts designated by the amendment, limiting where they may be built. Provide the zoning districts in which “Data Centers” ... are permitted uses
Even in districts where data centers are permitted, they would require approval as a Special Use Exception, creating an additional discretionary approval requirement. Make “Data Centers” ... Special Use Exceptions
Data center developments would be subject to newly adopted development standards, creating additional requirements for their construction or operation; the notice does not specify those standards. Adopt Development Standards for “Data Centers” ... developments
Benefits & exceptionsHide benefits & exceptions2
Data centers would be identified as permitted uses in specified zoning districts, allowing them to be developed in those districts subject to the applicable requirements.
Data centers would be eligible for Special Use Exceptions in zoning districts where they are permitted, providing an approval pathway for development in those districts.
Sources
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