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The Data Center Divide

City of Inver Grove Heights

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Mixed Data Center Policies

Inver Grove Heights has enacted a one-year pause on new data center construction and expansions, stopping review of related applications. Existing centers may continue operating.

Rating from Minnesota statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for City of Inver Grove Heights.

current law · City of Inver Grove Heights
Temporarily prohibits new data center construction or expansion in Inver Grove Heights for one year while the city studies data center rules, but exempts the pending project.Inver Grove Heights Data Center Moratorium (June 2026) and QLevr Carve-Out (September 15, 2026) — introduced/adopted by the Inver Grove Heights City Council

What this means

The measure would pause new data center construction and expansions across the city for one year, and halt review of related applications, including the pending project (citywide moratorium). It does not ban operating existing centers, but the year-long delay makes development substantially harder.

Timing

Ends
One year from its effective date

The ordinance may end earlier if expressly repealed or if a zoning-code amendment expressly regulating data centers takes effect. It remains in effect for one year from its effective date.

People behind it

  • Directed preparation of the ordinance versions and voted to adopt the moratorium. The Council directed the City Attorney to draft two versions.

  • Directed by the City Council to draft the proposed interim ordinance versions. The City Attorney was directed to draft two versions.

  • Authorized and directed to conduct the data-center study and provide recommendations to the City Council. City staff and consultants are authorized and directed to conduct a study.

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  • A citywide, one-year moratorium prohibits constructing or expanding data centers and bars the City from accepting, reviewing, processing, or approving applications for that work. The moratorium may end earlier if repealed or when a zoning amendment regulating data centers takes effect. The current proposed project was later removed from the moratorium by amendment. no new or existing Data Center shall be constructed or expanded remove the current proposed data center from a moratorium

  • Previously accepted applications for data center construction or expansion receive no further review or work during the moratorium. They must be withdrawn, acted on under the ordinance, or—if the applicant agrees in writing—put off indefinitely until the City completes its study and relevant zoning amendments take effect. The ordinance also says it does not itself unilaterally extend statutory application deadlines. no additional review or other work on any previously accepted applications

  • Violating the ordinance may be prosecuted as a misdemeanor, punishable by up to 90 days in jail, a fine of up to $1,000, or both; each day of violation is a separate offense. Each day that a violation occurs

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  • The amendment removes the current proposed data center from the moratorium, allowing its application to proceed outside the moratorium. This applies only to that project; it does not itself approve the site plan, which remains subject to City Council review and other development requirements. The amendment would remove the current proposed data center from the moratorium.

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