The Data Center Divide
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Sheridan Charter Township
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Mixed Data Center Policies
Sheridan Charter Township’s enacted measure pauses data-center approvals, construction, and expansion until August 31, 2027, but exempts qualifying projects already approved and substantially underway or in use.
Rating from Michigan statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Sheridan Charter Township.
current law · Sheridan Charter TownshipProhibits new or expanded data centers in Sheridan Charter Township until August 31, 2027, while the township develops regulations.Sheridan Charter Township Data Center Moratorium (2026)
What this means
The measure would pause approvals, construction, and expansion of data centers until August 31, 2027, making new projects substantially harder to start. Existing projects that already had valid approvals and were substantially under construction or in use are exempt.
Timing
- Ends
- Aug 31, 2027
The temporary moratorium on new or expanded data centers remains in effect until August 31, 2027. It prohibits approvals, construction, installation, expansion, and use of data centers, subject to stated exemptions for previously approved projects under substantial construction or in final use.
People behind it
- Sheridan Charter Township Board
Adopted and enacted Ordinance No. 26-05 establishing the temporary data center moratorium.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements3
A temporary moratorium prohibits the approval, commencement, construction, installation, expansion, establishment, or use of any new or expanded data center in Sheridan Charter Township until August 31, 2027.
While the moratorium is effective, the Township and its officials, boards, bodies, and commissions may not process applications or issue zoning approvals, zoning permits, rezonings, building permits, licenses, or other Township approvals for the commencement, installation, expansion, or use of a data center.
The moratorium does not apply to a structure, use, or building that had received all required approvals before the ordinance took effect, whose approvals remained valid, and that was under substantial construction or had begun its final use.
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Grandfathering for existing projects: the moratorium does not apply to a data center or related structure that had received all required zoning, building-code, and other approvals before the ordinance took effect, provided those approvals remained valid and the project was under substantial construction or had begun final use. The moratorium exemption protects qualifying projects from the temporary prohibition.
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