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.
Ravenna 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 Ravenna Township.
expired · Ravenna TownshipEstablishes a binding six-month moratorium on the operation or location of any new data center in Ravenna Township, Ohio, giving officials time to assess effects on community health, safety, utilities, and infrastructure while studies are completed (Ravenna Township Resolution 26-056).Ravenna Township Resolution 26-056 (2026)
What this means
The measure would pause the location or operation of any new data center in Ravenna Township for six months while officials study potential impacts. It is a substantial temporary barrier to new projects, but it is not a permanent ban.
Timing
- Ends
- six (6) months after adoption
The moratorium applies to the operation or location of any new data center in Ravenna Township. No extension condition is stated; the resolution also directs the Township to consider adding a dedicated data-center section to its zoning code during the moratorium.
People behind it
- Kristi Blazek-Hack
Moved adoption of Resolution #26-056 placing the six-month moratorium on data centers.
- Vince Coia
Seconded the motion to adopt Resolution #26-056.
- Ravenna Township Board of Trustees
Adopted the resolution establishing the six-month moratorium and considering related zoning-code amendments.
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- Gail Pittman
Fiscal Officer who certified and attested to the resolution as an accurate copy of the adopted measure.
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Imposes a six-month moratorium on the operation or location of any new data center in Ravenna Township.
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