The Data Center Divide
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Monitor Charter Township
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Mixed Data Center Policies
Monitor Charter Township’s enacted ordinance imposes a one-year pause on data center applications, reviews, and approvals, delaying new projects and expansions; it does not say existing centers must stop operating.
Rating from Michigan statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Monitor Charter Township.
current law · Charter Township of MonitorProposes to halt data-center applications, reviews, approvals, and construction in Monitor Township for one year.Monitor Charter Township Ordinance 67-U — Data Center Moratorium (2026)
What this means
If enacted, the one-year moratorium would stop data center applications, reviews, and approvals, making it much harder to start or expand a project during that time (prohibit application, review, and approval). It is temporary and does not state that existing data centers must stop operating, but the delay is a major barrier to new development.
Timing
- Ends
- one year
The moratorium prohibits data-center applications, review, and approval for a period of one year, unless modified or repealed. The ordinance also states that it becomes effective 30 days after adoption and publication; no adoption/publication date sufficient to calculate a calendar expiration date is provided.
People behind it
- Monitor Township Planning Commission
Initiated the proposed zoning ordinance amendment and scheduled the public hearing on the one-year data center moratorium.
- Bellor
Moved to add Ordinance 67-U to the Township Board agenda and moved its introduction and first reading.
- Kloha
Seconded the motions to add Ordinance 67-U to the agenda and to conduct its introduction and first reading.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements2
Moratorium prohibiting applications, review, construction, and approval of data centers within Monitor Charter Township for one year, unless the moratorium is modified or repealed earlier.
The moratorium does not become effective until 30 days after the ordinance is adopted and published in a newspaper of general circulation.
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