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.
Monroe Township
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Mixed Data Center Policies
Monroe Township has enacted a 12-month pause on new data-center proposals and development, though the description says “if enacted.” It is temporary, not a permanent ban.
Rating from Ohio statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Monroe Township.
current law · Monroe TownshipMonroe Township, Adams County, trustees reportedly unanimously passed a 12-month moratorium for new proposals and development of data centers and small modular nuclear reactors.Adams County, Ohio Monroe Township data-center zoning measure (2026)
What this means
If enacted, this would pause new data-center proposals and development in Monroe Township for 12 months, a substantial temporary barrier (12-month moratorium for new proposals and development). It is a temporary pause, not a permanent ban on building or operating data centers.
Timing
- Ends
- Monroe Township: 12 months after passage; Sprigg Township: one year after adoption (March 2; year unspecified)
The sources describe moratoria in two townships, with different stated expiration wording.
People behind it
- Monroe Township Trustees
Unanimously passed the 12-month moratorium on new data center and small modular nuclear reactor proposals and development.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements6
Monroe Township imposed a 12-month moratorium on new data center proposals and development.
Sprigg Township passed a voluntary one-year moratorium on data centers.
A proposed Ohio constitutional amendment would ban data centers statewide; it is a petition proposal, not an enacted ban.
The federal permit requires protections for endangered bats, mussels, and butterflies, and allows additional restrictions if new information reveals impacts to federally listed species or critical habitat.
The federal permit bars construction crews from disturbing three nearby cemeteries and requires a 100-foot buffer, with temporary fencing around the Boone and Davidson cemeteries and permanent fencing around the Rogers Parr cemetery.
Crews must stop work if previously unknown historic or archaeological sites or human remains are uncovered.
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Army Corps of Engineers Nationwide Permit No. 39 enables the data center project, subject to conditions protecting endangered bats, mussels, and butterflies and requiring a 100-foot buffer around three cemeteries. Permit details.
Sources
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