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The Data Center Divide

McPherson County

Strongly Anti-Data Center Policies

McPherson County’s enacted resolution bans data centers on county land outside city limits, preventing new development in those areas; it does not describe a countywide ban inside cities.

current law · Unincorporated areas
Prohibits data centers in unincorporated McPherson County.McPherson County Resolution 2026-21

What this means

The measure would ban data centers on all county land outside city limits, making new development there impossible. Other zoning requirements are secondary to this outright ban.

People behind it

  • Moved the broader zoning-rules rewrite that included the ban.

  • Seconded the motion for the broader zoning-rules rewrite that included the ban.

  • Voted to recommend the ban to the county commission.

Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
  • - Reported outright prohibition: “ban data centers and large battery-storage installations from all county land outside city limits”. - Reported anti-evasion safeguard in the broader zoning rewrite: builders of “any new or expanded industrial or warehouse building over 10,000 square feet” must disclose electricity demand and backup-generator, fuel-tank and cooling-equipment details. The report explicitly connects enforcement to “guarding against data centers arriving under another name”. These are reported terms, not independently verified quotations from the adopted resolution. General industrial hearing rules and unrelated zoning amendments are not treated here as separate data-center-specific requirements.

Benefits & exceptionsHide benefits & exceptions1
  • None identified in the attached reporting. No verified exemption, grandfathering right, incentive, or approval pathway can be established without the adopted text.

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