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.
Orleans Township
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Mixed Data Center Policies
Orleans Township’s enacted measure pauses data-center applications for 12 months while land-use rules are developed, temporarily limiting new construction or expansion but not operations at existing facilities.
Rating from Michigan statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Orleans Township.
current law · Orleans TownshipProhibits Orleans Township from accepting, processing, or approving data center applications for 12 months, unless the moratorium is repealed or extended.Orleans Township battery storage/data center/solar/wind moratorium
What this means
The measure pauses acceptance, processing, and approval of data-center applications for 12 months while the township develops land-use rules. That is a substantial temporary barrier to building or expanding, though it does not itself ban data-center operations or set rules for existing facilities (12-month moratorium on applications).
Timing
- Ends
- twelve (12) months from the effective date of the Ordinance
The moratorium may be earlier repealed or extended by the Township Board.
People behind it
- Orleans Township Board
Adopted the ordinance establishing the temporary moratorium on certain high-impact land uses.
- Orleans Township Clerk
Issued the adoption notice and identified the ordinance as taking effect upon publication.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
A 12-month moratorium prohibits the acceptance, processing, and approval of applications for data centers and similar high-impact land uses, beginning on the ordinance’s effective date; the Township Board may repeal or extend the moratorium earlier.
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