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.
Town of Raynham
Mixed Data Center Policies
Massachusetts requires covered data-center projects above 25 megawatts to meet community-benefit and environmental safeguards for permits, while qualifying large projects can receive conditional tax breaks. Grid initiatives may support reliability, but their benefits are indirect; applications for the tax incentive are currently paused.
Rating and summary from Massachusetts statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Town of Raynham.
pending · Town of RaynhamSeeks to restrict data center construction and operations in Raynham, but the bylaw is still being drafted.Massachusetts Raynham Data Center Restrictions and Regulations Proposal (2026)
People behind it
- Pamela Menconi
Raynham Planning Board member who raised the data center bylaw and volunteered to spearhead it.
- Selectman DiAndre
Identified as one of the officials expected to author most of the proposed data center bylaw article.
- Coney
Identified as one of the officials expected to author most of the proposed data center bylaw article.
Sources
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