A citywide, one-year moratorium makes data centers a prohibited use and bars establishing, constructing, commencing, relocating, or expanding one. “Expansion” includes increases in building area, equipment or electrical capacity, servers, generators, water demand, cooling capacity, or operational area. The moratorium ends earlier if repealed or superseded by permanent regulations. Exceptions include ordinary maintenance or repair that does not expand a facility, qualifying accessory equipment, activities protected by vested rights or preempted by state or federal law, and qualifying applications already complete before the effective date. A moratorium is imposed throughout the City

During the moratorium, the City will not accept or approve applications filed after its effective date for listed approvals—including rezoning, permits, site-plan or subdivision approval, and utility permits—if they seek or contemplate establishing, constructing, relocating, or expanding a data center. The City shall not accept an application submitted after the effective date

Violations may be enforced through criminal, administrative, or civil remedies. A violator is guilty of a misdemeanor, and each day a violation continues is a separate offense. Each day a violation continues constitutes a separate offense

Applications filed and determined complete before the ordinance takes effect must be processed under applicable law; preliminary-approved subdivisions are not halted, delayed, or impeded. The ordinance’s application and subdivision protections

Routine repair, maintenance, replacement, and technological upgrades to equipment in an existing lawful building are allowed, provided they do not establish or expand a data center. Routine replacement, repair, maintenance, or technological upgrading

Computing, server, storage, network, or telecommunications equipment that is accessory and incidental to a lawful principal use is outside the data-center definition and exempt from the moratorium, so long as it does not independently constitute a data center. Accessory and incidental to a lawful principal use

The moratorium does not apply where doing so would violate a vested right established under Minnesota law. A vested right established under Minnesota law

Activities preempted from local regulation by state or federal law are outside the ordinance; the exceptions also cover certain governmental emergency, public-safety, or public-utility equipment where local regulation is barred. Preempted from local regulation