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.
Fayette Township
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Mixed Data Center Policies
Fayette Township has enacted a one-year pause on new data center applications, construction, expansions, and operations. Existing lawful centers may continue, and routine maintenance and repairs are exempt.
Rating from Michigan statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Fayette Township.
current law · Fayette TownshipProhibits Fayette Township from accepting or approving applications to establish, build, expand, or operate data centers for one year, except existing operations and routine maintenance or repairs.Fayette Township Battery Storage/Data Center/Wind Moratorium
What this means
If enacted, the one-year moratorium would stop new data center applications, construction, expansions, and operations, creating a major temporary barrier (applications involving establishment, construction, expansion, or operation). Existing lawful data centers could continue, and routine maintenance or repairs would be exempt, but the short-term development freeze makes the overall effect strongly restrictive.
Timing
- Ends
- one year from the effective date of each ordinance
Ordinances 2026-3, 2026-4, and 2026-5 each impose a moratorium effective upon publication for one year, unless repealed earlier. The Township Board may extend the moratoria by resolution or ordinance; for battery storage, the notice states that additional time must be reasonably necessary to complete the planning and zoning review process.
People behind it
- Fayette Township Board of Trustees
Adopted Ordinances 2026-3, 2026-4, and 2026-5, establishing one-year moratoria on battery energy storage systems, commercial wind energy systems, and data centers.
- Fayette Township Planning Commission
Recommended the proposed township moratoria before their adoption by the Township Board.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements3
The Township shall not accept, process, review, approve, or issue permits for applications involving the establishment, construction, expansion, or operation of a data center.
The data-center moratorium lasts one year from its effective date, unless repealed earlier; the Township Board may extend it by resolution or ordinance.
Existing lawful data-center operations established before the effective date are exempt, as are routine maintenance or repairs that do not increase the existing use’s intensity, capacity, or scale.
Benefits & exceptionsHide benefits & exceptions2
Existing lawful data center operations established before the ordinance’s effective date are exempt from the one-year moratorium and may continue operating.
Routine maintenance and repairs to existing lawful data centers are exempt, provided they do not increase the facility’s intensity, capacity, or scale.
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