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.
Lyon County
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Pro-Data Center Policies
Lyon County has enacted a two-year pause on constructing, developing, or operating data centers of any size and data storage facilities, blocking new projects and expansions countywide during that period.
Rating from Kentucky statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Lyon County.
Specific to Lyon County only.
current law · County measureProhibits construction, development, and operation of data centers of any size and all data storage facilities in Lyon County for two years.Lyon County Fiscal Court Data Center Moratorium Ordinance (2026)
What this means
The measure would pause construction, development, and operation of data centers of any size, and data storage facilities, throughout Lyon County for two years (“for a period of two years”). That would block new projects and expansions during the pause, making development substantially harder.
Timing
- Ends
- two years from the effective date of the ordinance
The moratorium applies to the construction, development, and operation of data centers of any size and all data storage facilities in Lyon County. The sources do not state the ordinance's effective date or any extension conditions.
People behind it
- Brock Thomas
Mayor of the City of Princeton who signed and approved the city's budget amendment and property-tax ordinances.
- Laci Harper
City Clerk of Princeton who attested the city's budget amendment and property-tax ordinances.
- City Council of the City of Princeton
Legislative body that passed the city's budget amendment and property-tax ordinances.
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- City of Eddyville
Municipal government that adopted the 2026 property-tax-rate ordinance.
- Lyon County Fiscal Court
County governing body that enacted the two-year moratorium on data centers and data-storage facilities.
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Imposes a two-year moratorium, beginning on the ordinance’s effective date, on the construction, development, and operation of data centers of any size and all data storage facilities within Lyon County.
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