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.
Breckinridge County
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Pro-Data Center Policies
Breckinridge County has enacted a moratorium that puts covered AI data center projects on hold, hindering construction or expansion; its duration and full scope are unclear. The description calls it proposed, conflicting with its enacted status.
Rating from Kentucky statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Breckinridge County.
Specific to Breckinridge County only.
current law · County measureTemporarily prohibits approvals for new AI data centers in Breckinridge while the local government reviews how to regulate them.Breckinridge County Ordinance 2025-1117A — AI Data Center Moratorium
What this means
The proposed AI data center moratorium would put covered projects on hold, making it much harder to build or expand data centers while the pause is in effect. The document title identifies a moratorium, but the available source text does not show its duration or full scope.
Timing
- Ends
- 180 days after adoption
The moratorium is temporary and expires 180 days after adoption, unless extended by the Fiscal Court.
People behind it
- Breckinridge County Fiscal Court
Proposed, introduced, and enacted the AI data-center moratorium ordinance.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
Imposes a moratorium on AI and data-center development, creating a temporary barrier to obtaining approval for covered data-center projects.
Benefits & exceptionsHide benefits & exceptions4
The moratorium is temporary, so it does not permanently prevent data centers from being built, expanded, or operated after the moratorium period ends.
Data centers and related uses that were lawfully established before the ordinance may continue operating during the moratorium.
The ordinance preserves projects with vested rights or approvals obtained before the moratorium, allowing those projects to proceed under the applicable prior approvals.
Routine maintenance and repairs to existing data-center facilities are not prohibited by the moratorium.
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