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.
Webster Township
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Neutral Data Center Policies
Webster Township has enacted a one-year pause on data-center permits, approvals, construction, and installation, blocking new projects and expansions during that period; the description does not say existing centers must stop operating.
Rating from Washtenaw County as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Webster Township.
current law · Webster TownshipProhibits data center permitting, approval, construction, and installation in Webster Township for one year while the township studies new regulations.Webster Township Ordinance No. 26-21 (2026)
What this means
The measure would pause permitting and approvals, as well as construction and installation, of data centers for one year. That would block new data center projects and expansions during the pause, although the notice does not say existing centers must stop operating.
Timing
- Ends
- one (1) year after adoption
The measure imposes a one-year moratorium on data centers and battery energy storage systems. The sources do not state an explicit calendar expiration date or extension condition.
People behind it
- Webster Township Board
Adopted Ordinance No. 26-02 establishing the one-year data center and battery energy storage system moratorium, and adopted Ordinance No. 26-21 amending the zoning ordinance to enact the moratorium.
- Tonie Brovont
Webster Township Clerk who issued and published the notices of adoption and served as the official contact for obtaining copies of the ordinances.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
A one-year moratorium prohibits permitting, consideration, approval, location, erection, construction, and installation of data centers and battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Webster Township while the Township studies and potentially adopts revised regulations.
Sources
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