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.
Hubbard Township
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 Hubbard Township.
failed · Hubbard TownshipProposes prohibiting the establishment or operation of data centers or similar uses anywhere in Hubbard Township, Ohio, while adding “DATA CENTER” to Article II’s definitions; the supplied notice does not provide the definition or identify thresholds, exceptions, existing-use provisions, or other compliance obligations.Hubbard Township Proposed Data Center Zoning Resolution (2026)
What this means
If enacted as proposed, this measure would prohibit establishing or operating data centers or similar uses throughout Hubbard Township. That is an outright ban within the township, making it effectively impossible to build, expand, or operate a data center there.
People behind it
- Hubbard Township Zoning Commission
Conducted the public hearings on the proposed zoning amendments and forwarded its decision to the Board of Trustees.
- Hubbard Township Board of Trustees
Considered the zoning matters and related resolutions following the Zoning Commission's hearings.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
Prohibits the establishment and operation of data centers or similar uses within Hubbard Township.
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