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.
Lake 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 Lake Township.
expired · Lake TownshipPauses the location or operation of any new data center in Lake Township for six months while officials study its impacts and consider data-center-specific zoning rules.Lake Township Resolution 26-177
What this means
The resolution would pause the location or operation of any new data center in Lake Township for six months while officials study its impacts (six-month moratorium). That would substantially delay new projects, though the pause is temporary and applies to new centers, not existing ones.
Timing
- Ends
- six (6) months after adoption
Resolution 26-177 establishes a six-month moratorium on the operation or location of any new data center in Lake Township. It also directs the Board to consider adding a dedicated zoning-code section during the moratorium. No extension condition is stated.
People behind it
- John Arnold
Moved Resolution 26-177 to establish a six-month moratorium on new data centers in Lake Township.
- Jeremy Yoder
Seconded Resolution 26-177.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
A six-month moratorium prohibits the operation or location of any new data center in Lake Township while the township assesses impacts on health, safety, utilities, and infrastructure.
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