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 Mount Gilead
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Mixed Data Center Policies
Mount Gilead has enacted a temporary pause of up to one year on new data center permits and permit processing, potentially delaying permitted projects. It does not expressly prohibit existing operations.
Rating from Ohio statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Village of Mount Gilead.
current law · Village of Mount GileadImposes a temporary moratorium of no more than one year on issuing new data-center permits within the Village of Mount Gilead’s corporate limits and on receiving or processing applications for those permits.Ohio Village of Mount Gilead Ordinance 2027 (2026)
What this means
The measure would pause new data center permits and the processing of permit applications within Mount Gilead for up to one year, likely delaying new builds and expansions that need permits. It does not expressly ban existing operations, but the temporary moratorium is a substantial short-term barrier.
Timing
- Ends
- not to exceed one year
Ordinance 2027 establishes a temporary moratorium on new data-center permits and related applications. The sources do not specify an exact expiration date or expressly state the starting event for the one-year period.
People behind it
- Paige Bierce
Council member who sponsored or co-sponsored multiple resolutions and ordinances, including measures concerning firefighter hiring, CDBG funding, supplemental appropriations, data centers, parking, zoning, and tax matters.
- Sondra Carey
Council member who sponsored or co-sponsored multiple resolutions and ordinances, including measures concerning firefighter hiring, CDBG funding, supplemental appropriations, data centers, parking, zoning, water bills, and the water-treatment project.
- Kay Hines
Council member who sponsored or co-sponsored multiple resolutions and ordinances, including measures concerning CDBG funding, property mowing, data centers, supplemental appropriations, zoning, and the water-treatment project.
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- Joe Johnson
Council member who sponsored or co-sponsored multiple resolutions and ordinances, including measures concerning CDBG funding, data centers, water bills, zoning, the tax budget, supplemental appropriations, and fund reallocations.
- Mark Phillips
Council member who sponsored or co-sponsored multiple resolutions and ordinances, including measures concerning the police drone, data centers, parking, zoning, fire-station needs analysis, supplemental appropriations, and CDBG projects.
- Chris Sherbourne
Council member who sponsored or co-sponsored multiple resolutions and ordinances, including measures concerning firefighter hiring, CDBG funding, property mowing, water bills, zoning, supplemental appropriations, and the design contract for CDBG projects.
- Derek Allen
Village Administrator authorized to administer or carry out measures concerning CDBG funding, neighborhood revitalization funding, and the design contract for two CDBG projects.
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A temporary moratorium, not exceeding one year, prohibits issuing new data-center permits and prohibits receiving or processing applications for data-center permits within the Village’s corporate limits. The ordinance was adopted on final reading.
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