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.
City of Twinsburg
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Strongly Pro-Data Center Policies
Twinsburg’s enacted ordinance blocks zoning and occupancy permits for data centers as a main use for up to 12 months and bars existing businesses from expanding into that use; it does not expressly stop current operations.
Rating from Summit County as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for City of Twinsburg.
current law · City of TwinsburgEstablishes a temporary moratorium of up to 12 months on accepting or considering applications and issuing zoning or occupancy permits for data centers as a principal use, including similar-use pathways and expansions of existing uses into data centers.City of Twinsburg Ordinance No. 2026-065
What this means
It would block zoning and occupancy permits for up to 12 months for buildings or uses involving data centers as a main use, and would prevent existing businesses from expanding into that use (12-month moratorium and expansion restriction). It does not expressly shut down existing data center operations, but the temporary halt would make new development and relevant expansions substantially harder.
Timing
- Ends
- Twelve months from the effective date of the ordinance, or earlier if changes are enacted to amend the Codified Ordinances or Council explicitly revokes the moratorium, whichever occurs first.
The moratorium applies to accepting, considering, or issuing zoning or occupancy permits for data centers as a principal use, and prohibits existing businesses from expanding into such uses during the moratorium.
People behind it
- Sam Scaffide
Mayor who requested that legislation establishing the data-center moratorium be created.
- City Administration
Recommended adoption of the moratorium and was tasked with studying possible data-center regulations.
- Greg Bellan
Moved the motions to suspend the three-reading rule and adopt Ordinance 2026-065 as an emergency.
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- Karen Labbe
Seconded the motions to suspend the three-reading rule and adopt Ordinance 2026-065 as an emergency.
- Twinsburg City Council
Enacted the ordinance establishing the 12-month data-center moratorium.
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Data centers are not currently permitted as a principal use under the city's planning and zoning code.
For up to 12 months, the city may not accept for filing or consideration, or issue zoning or occupancy permits, for any building, structure, use, or change of use involving a data center as a principal use.
Existing businesses may not expand in any way that would involve a data center as a principal use during the moratorium.
The moratorium continues for 12 months from the ordinance's effective date, unless zoning-code changes address the issue or Council expressly revokes the moratorium earlier.
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