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.
Town of Danby
Strongly Anti-Data Center Policies
Danby’s enacted law is described as proposed; it defines data centers but allows them in no zoning district, effectively barring new ones, with no exceptions described.
current law · Town of DanbyAdopted on April 7, 2026, Town of Danby Local Law No. 1 of 2026 amends the Town’s 2022 Zoning Law, but the available text does not identify the final amendments, obligations, exceptions, thresholds, effective-date rules, or implementation provisions.Town of Danby Local Law No. 1 of 2026
What this means
The proposed law defines data centers but does not add them as allowed uses in any zoning district, effectively barring new data centers under the town’s zoning rules (“take no action to include such uses within any zoning districts”). The source does not describe an exception for building, expanding, or operating them.
People behind it
- Town Board of the Town of Danby
Proposed and adopted Local Law 1 of 2026, amending the 2022 Zoning Law.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
The measure defines data centers and cryptocurrency facilities but does not include either use in any zoning district, leaving data centers without an authorized zoning district for operation or development. does not include such uses within any zoning districts
Sources
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