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 Richfield
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Strongly Pro-Data Center Policies
Richfield village has enacted an ordinance that pauses data-center zoning-certificate applications for 180 days, delaying new projects and expansions. Its description also calls the pause conditional; it is temporary, not a permanent ban.
Rating from Summit County as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Village of Richfield.
current law · Village of RichfieldWould impose an additional 180-day moratorium on receiving, processing, issuing, or approving zoning certificate applications for data processing, hosting, and related services, including data centers, under Richfield’s Planning and Zoning Code.Village of Richfield Ordinance 74-2026
What this means
If enacted, this would pause zoning-certificate applications for data centers for another 180 days, delaying new projects and expansions. It is a serious but temporary restriction, not a permanent ban: the proposal targets applications for data centers.
Timing
- Ends
- 180 days after adoption
Ordinance 74-2026 imposes an additional 180-day moratorium on applications for data-center zoning certificates. The source does not provide an adoption date, so no calendar expiration date can be determined.
People behind it
- All of Council
Explicitly identified as offering Ordinances 74-2026 and 75-2026
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
An additional 180-day moratorium bars the receipt, processing, issuance, and approval of any zoning-certificate application for data processing, hosting, and related services (data centers) under the Village’s Planning and Zoning Code. Additional 180-day moratorium
Sources
expired · Village of RichfieldWould establish a 180-day moratorium on receiving, processing, issuing, and approving zoning-certificate applications for NAICS 518 data processing, hosting, and related services identified as data centers under the Village’s Planning and Zoning Code.Village of Richfield Ordinance No. 18-2026
What this means
If enacted, the measure would pause the receipt, processing, issuance, and approval of data-center zoning applications for an additional 180 days. That temporary block would significantly delay new data centers and expansions needing zoning approval, even though it would not permanently ban them.
Timing
- Ends
- Ordinance 74-2026: 180 days after adoption; Ordinance 75-2026: six months after the original moratorium, or when legislation created as a result of the moratorium takes effect, whichever occurs first.
The measures extend separate moratoria: Ordinance 74-2026 concerns data centers, while Ordinance 75-2026 concerns multifamily housing. The multifamily moratorium expressly ends upon the earlier of the six-month extension or the effective date of resulting legislation.
People behind it
- All of Council
Introduced and offered Ordinances 74-2026 and 75-2026, extending the data-center and multifamily-housing moratoria.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements2
Ordinance 18-2026 imposes a 180-day moratorium on receiving, processing, issuing, or approving zoning-certificate applications for NAICS 518 data processing, hosting, and related services, including data centers.
Ordinance 74-2026 extends the data-center moratorium for an additional six months, or until legislation resulting from the moratorium takes effect, whichever occurs first.
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