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.
Village of Mayfield
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Mixed Data Center Policies
Mayfield Village has enacted a 12-month pause on processing and approving data-center permits and other authorizations, delaying new projects and expansions; the measure does not expressly halt existing operations.
Rating from Ohio statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Village of Mayfield.
current law · Mayfield VillageAdopts a 12-month emergency moratorium on data centers in Mayfield Village, prohibiting the processing or approval of applications and the issuance of rezoning, conditional-use, zoning, building, occupancy, and other permits or licenses for data-center facilities, uses, or changes in use.Mayfield Village Ordinance 2026-12 (2026)
What this means
The measure pauses processing and approval of permits and other authorizations for data centers for 12 months, making new projects and expansions substantially harder during that period. It does not expressly stop existing data centers from operating, but the broad permit freeze is a major temporary barrier.
Timing
- Ends
- twelve (12) months from the effective date of the Ordinance
The moratorium applies to approvals, issuance, and processing of applications for data-center-related rezonings, variances, permits, licenses, and certificates of occupancy. Related statutory decision periods are suspended and tolled during the moratorium.
People behind it
- Mayor Brenda T. Bodnar
Introduced Ordinance 2026-12.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements2
Imposes a 12-month moratorium, beginning on the ordinance’s effective date, on approving, issuing, or processing applications for rezoning, conditional-use permits, zoning permits, building permits, certificates of occupancy, or other permits or licenses for any data-center building, structure, use, or change in use.
Suspends and tolls any legally prescribed deadlines requiring a Village board, commission, or official to act on applications for data-center-related approvals or permits during the moratorium.
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