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The Data Center Divide

Rome Township

Mixed Data Center Policies

Michigan offers equipment tax breaks to qualifying data centers, but some require major investment, job, water, and clean-energy commitments. Large electricity users also face separate rates, fees, and cost reviews; some must accept long contracts and minimum payments.

Rating and summary from Michigan statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Rome Township.

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Temporarily prohibits Rome Township from reviewing or approving data center applications while it considers zoning rules.Rome Township Resolution to Impose a Moratorium on the Issuance of Permits, Licenses, or Approvals for Data Centers

What this means

The measure would pause approvals for new data centers and expansions, making projects substantially harder to move forward while it is in effect. Its initial duration is unclear, and it does not appear to stop existing data centers from operating.

Timing

Ends
When Data Center regulatory amendments to the Township’s Zoning Ordinance become effective, or after an unspecified number of months following the Resolution’s effective date, whichever occurs first

The Township Board may extend the moratorium by resolution for up to 6 months before expiration, with notice of the extension. Other materials indicate the moratorium may not exceed 12 months from adoption, creating some ambiguity about the base duration.

People behind it

  • Offered the resolution imposing the moratorium.

  • Seconded the resolution and certified the adopted measure as Township Clerk.

  • Proposed and introduced the zoning ordinance amendment establishing moratorium authority.

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  • Held the public hearing and recommended adoption of the zoning ordinance amendment.

  • Discussed and approved the CREO Wind Ordinance, and adopted the moratorium resolution and authorized the imposition of moratoria.

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  • A temporary moratorium bars reviewing or issuing any applications, permits, rezonings, licenses, or other approvals for establishing or operating a data center on property under the Township’s zoning jurisdiction. It covers facilities principally housing information-technology infrastructure, including cryptocurrency-mining and artificial-intelligence facilities.

  • The moratorium lasts for the initial period specified in the resolution, which is blank in the provided document, or until data-center amendments to the Township’s Zoning Ordinance become effective, whichever occurs first. The Township Board may extend it by resolution for up to six additional months; the planning materials state that a moratorium may not exceed 12 months before such an extension.

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