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.
Darke County
Mixed Data Center Policies
Ohio offers qualifying data centers significant sales-tax exemptions on equipment, subject to investment, payroll, reporting, and other conditions, while fees apply to participants. New exemption requests are paused, which may raise costs for new projects; data centers are not banned.
Rating and summary from Ohio statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Darke County.
Specific to Darke County only.
pending · County measure: Brown, Wayne, and Wabash townshipsProposes adding data centers as a conditional use in the I-1 Limited Industrial District, together with new definitions and related data-center regulations.Darke County Zoning Commission — Proposed Data Center Text Amendment (2026)
What this means
The proposal would create a path for data centers in the I-1 limited industrial district by allowing them as a conditional use, rather than barring them there (conditional use in the I-1 Limited Industrial district). Conditional-use approval and unspecified related rules could add hurdles, but the sources do not describe restrictions substantial enough to outweigh the new opportunity.
People behind it
- Darke County Zoning Commission
Proposed and considered recommending zoning-text amendments to add data centers as a conditional use in the I-1 Limited Industrial district.
- Brown Township
Requested zoning changes concerning data centers.
- Wayne Township
Requested zoning changes concerning data centers.
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- Wabash Township
Requested zoning changes concerning data centers.
- Darke County Commissioners
Held the public hearing and were responsible for approving the townships’ requested zoning changes.
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Data centers would be allowed in the I-1 Limited Industrial district only as a conditional use, requiring additional zoning approval rather than being permitted automatically.
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Adds data centers as a conditional use in the I-1 Limited Industrial district, allowing them to be proposed and potentially developed there subject to conditional-use approval.
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