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.
Mantua Township
Strongly Anti-Data Center Policies
Mantua Township has enacted an ordinance described as barring data centers, including cryptocurrency mining, blockchain processing, and server farms, in every zoning district.
current law · Township of MantuaBans data centers in every Mantua Township zoning district, with no stated exceptions or thresholds, by defining them as facilities primarily used to process, transfer, or store digital information, including cryptocurrency mining, blockchain processing, and server farms.Mantua Township Ordinance O-9-2026 (2026)
What this means
The ordinance would ban data centers in every zoning district, making building or expanding one in Mantua effectively prohibited. Its definition also includes cryptocurrency mining, blockchain processing, and server farms (“Data Centers”).
People behind it
- Township Committee of the Township of Mantua
Introduced Ordinance O-9-2026 and passed it on first reading.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
Data centers are prohibited in every zoning district. The definition covers facilities primarily processing, transferring, or storing digital information to or from offsite locations, including cryptocurrency mining, blockchain transaction processing, and server farms; it excludes equipment customarily incidental to another permitted use, such as office-building servers. Data centers are specifically prohibited in every district.
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