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.
Somerset 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 Somerset Township.
pending · Somerset TownshipProposes a temporary pause on data center development, approvals, construction, and permits in Somerset Township while officials review related planning, infrastructure, environmental, and utility issues.Somerset Township Planning Commission Hearing Notice: Proposed Data Center Moratorium
What this means
If enacted, the proposed moratorium would create a significant barrier by pausing data center development, approval, construction, and permitting. The notice does not specify how long it would last or say that existing centers must stop operating, so the full impact is unclear.
Timing
The proposed measure is a moratorium on the development, approval, construction, and/or permitting of data centers. The sources do not state an expiration date or ending condition.
People behind it
- Somerset Township Planning Commission
Conducts the public hearing and receives public comments on the proposed Data Center Moratorium Regulatory Ordinance.
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Proposed moratorium on the development, approval, construction, and/or permitting of data centers within Somerset Township.
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