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.
Vermilion 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 Vermilion Township.
unknown · Vermilion TownshipEstablishes a 12-month moratorium, dated March 4, 2026, on receiving, processing, issuing, or approving zoning permits for NAICS 518 data processing and hosting businesses, including data centers.Vermilion Township Trustee Resolution 2026-06
What this means
A 12-month moratorium on data-center zoning permits would pause new projects and permit-dependent expansions during that period, a substantial temporary barrier (twelve-month moratorium). The sources describe a pause on zoning approvals, not a ban on operating existing data centers (moratorium on data centers).
Timing
- Ends
- twelve months
The February 3, 2026 minutes state that resolution language was prepared for a twelve-month moratorium on data centers. The sources do not state whether the resolution was adopted or identify when the twelve-month period begins.
People behind it
- Kenneth Baughman
Introduced and moved for adoption of Resolutions 2026-08, 2026-09, and 2026-10.
- Don Rowe
Seconded the motions adopting Resolutions 2026-08, 2026-09, and 2026-10, and helped construct the proposed data-center moratorium resolution language.
- Stephanie Johnson
Fiscal Officer designated to receive cybersecurity incident reports and maintain cybersecurity-training records.
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- Jason Hinners
Helped construct the proposed twelve-month data-center moratorium resolution language.
- Joe Baxter
Helped construct the proposed twelve-month data-center moratorium resolution language.
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A 12-month moratorium was proposed on constructing data centers in Vermilion Township, allowing time to revise the zoning code to address them.
Sources
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