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.
Weldon Township
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Mixed Data Center Policies
Weldon Township’s enacted measure pauses review and approval of data center applications until August 11, 2027, though its description says “if enacted”; it does not say existing centers must stop operating.
Rating from Michigan statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Weldon Township.
current law · Weldon TownshipPauses Weldon Township’s review and approval of data center applications and permits until August 11, 2027, unless the moratorium ends sooner.Weldon Township Moratorium on Data Centers/Battery Storage Resolution (2026)
What this means
If enacted, the measure would stop the township from reviewing or approving data center applications for about a year, making new construction or expansion much harder (temporary moratorium until August 11, 2027). It does not say existing data centers must stop operating.
Timing
- Ends
- Aug 11, 2027
The data-center moratorium remains in effect until 2027-08-11, unless earlier terminated by resolution of the Township Board. The ordinance also states that a section identified as Section 14.29 is automatically repealed on 2027-09-01, but that appears to be a numbering error because the moratorium is enacted as Section 18.23.
People behind it
- Sally Bobek
Offered the ordinance establishing the data center moratorium.
- Scott Williams
Supported the ordinance as co-sponsor.
- Weldon Township Board
Adopted and enacted the ordinance.
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- Fran Griffin
Township Clerk who certified the ordinance and its adoption.
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A temporary moratorium prohibits Township officers, boards, agencies, and commissions from processing, reviewing, or deciding zoning or building applications for data centers, or issuing permits, licenses, or other approvals allowing a property to be used as a data center. It applies to applications received on or after August 11, 2026. The moratorium prohibits processing and approvals
The data-center moratorium remains in effect until August 11, 2027, unless the Township Board ends it earlier by resolution. The ordinance also provides that the moratorium section automatically repeals on September 1, 2027. The moratorium shall remain in effect until August 11, 2027
Applications generally must be received by the Zoning Administrator at least 30 days before the meeting at which the reviewing body will consider them, unless the ordinance provides otherwise or special circumstances apply, such as permitting delays or an incomplete application. An application must be received by the Zoning Administrator at least thirty (30) days prior
The moratorium controls if it conflicts with the Township's site-plan or conditional-use-permit review provisions, preventing those ordinary review processes from being used to bypass the data-center moratorium. the provisions of this Section 18.23 shall control
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