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.
Yamhill County
Slightly Anti-Data Center Policies
Oregon’s rules limit some tax incentives and impose higher rates, long-term contracts, and other costs on large data centers served by covered utilities; temporary permitting and state-land pauses can delay certain projects, but do not ban development statewide.
Rating and summary from Oregon statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Yamhill County.
Specific to Yamhill County only.
pending · Geographic scope is unclear; the sources describe Exclusive Farm Use-zoned property and unincorporated areas, including county-owned and farm-zoned properties.The proposed resolution would discourage industrial-scale data centers on county-owned and farm-zoned properties and establish Board policy against comprehensive-plan or zoning-map changes intended to facilitate a data center.Yamhill County proposed resolution on data-center limitations (August 2026)
What this means
If enacted, the measure would significantly limit where new data centers could be built by barring them on farm-zoned and county-owned land and discouraging zoning changes to allow them. It would not ban data centers throughout the county or add rules for operating existing facilities.
People behind it
- Commissioner David “Bubba” King
Submitted the draft resolution and introduced the data center limitations proposal for discussion.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements3
Would prevent industrial-scale data centers from being built on county-owned or farm-zoned properties. prevent industrial-scale data centers
Establishes a board policy to discourage changes to the comprehensive plan or zoning maps to facilitate a data center. discourage changes to the comprehensive plan and zoning maps
Requires data center applications to be evaluated for impacts on agricultural productivity, water availability and quality, electrical infrastructure and grid reliability, transportation, emergency services, rural communities, natural resources, public investments, and the long-term public interest. any data center application will be evaluated for impacts
Sources
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