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.
Erie Township
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Mixed Data Center Policies
Erie Township has enacted a temporary pause on processing data-center applications or issuing approvals, including for existing applications. It lasts up to one year, but ends sooner if the township adopts data-center zoning rules.
Rating from Michigan statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Erie Township.
current law · Erie TownshipTemporarily prohibits Erie Township from reviewing or approving data center applications or allowing new data centers until a data-center zoning amendment takes effect or one year passes, whichever comes first.Erie Township Ordinance No. 132 — Limited Moratorium on the Development of Data Centers
What this means
The ordinance would stop the township from accepting or processing data-center applications, including existing ones, and from issuing related approvals. The pause lasts up to one year, or ends sooner if the township adopts data-center zoning rules, making it a severe but temporary barrier to building or expanding data centers (moratorium period).
Timing
- Ends
- one year from the effective date (2026-03-16), or upon the effective date of an Erie Township Zoning Ordinance amendment addressing and regulating data centers, whichever occurs first
The moratorium applies to the acceptance and processing of data-center applications and expires under either of the stated conditions.
People behind it
- Erie Township Board
Enacted and adopted Ordinance No. 132 imposing the limited moratorium.
- Erie Township Planning Commission
Working on the data center ordinance and responsible for studying the issue and developing proposed amendments.
- Spicer Group
Provided planners assisting the Erie Township Planning Commission in creating the draft data center ordinance.
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- Kimberly Cousino
Erie Township Clerk who signed, certified, and handled publication of the ordinance's notice of adoption.
- Michael Grodi
Erie Township Supervisor who authenticated the ordinance and served as the Township Board's supervisor.
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A moratorium prohibits Erie Township from accepting, reviewing, processing, considering, approving, or otherwise allowing data-center development applications, including existing applications and applications for building permits, land-use permits, special or conditional land uses, site-plan approval, certificates of occupancy, and zoning permits. The prohibition applies for one year from the ordinance’s effective date or until a zoning amendment regulating data centers becomes effective, whichever occurs first.
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