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.
Jerome 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 Jerome Township.
expired · Jerome TownshipJerome Township trustees unanimously agreed September 3, 2025 to a nine-month moratorium on new data-center construction.Jerome Township Resolution 25-061 (2025)
What this means
The measure pauses construction of new data centers for nine months, creating a major but temporary barrier to development (a moratorium on new data centers). It does not prohibit existing centers from operating, but the delay could affect projects already in progress while the township reviews its zoning rules.
Timing
- Ends
- June 2026; exact day unverified
Nine-month pause; expiration confirmed in subsequent reporting. Do not treat as active on October 26, 2026.
People behind it
- Wezlynn Davis
Jerome Township trustee explaining the pause and zoning goals
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
Reported nine-month moratorium on new data-center construction. Exact operative certificate-processing language and exceptions unverified; expired June 2026.
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