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.
Bedford Township
Anti-Data Center Policies
Bedford Township’s ordinance is labeled enacted, though described conditionally; it sets requirements for water, sewage, electricity, noise, environmental protection, and emergency planning.
current law · Bedford TownshipBedford Township, Bedford County, unanimously approved a data-center ordinance at its Tuesday meeting, corresponding to August 4, 2026 in the August 5 report.Bedford Township Data Center Ordinance
What this means
If enacted, the ordinance would add meaningful project requirements covering water, sewage, electricity, noise, environmental protection, and emergency planning (the listed standards). Those rules could add costs or delays, but the sources don’t give their exact limits, and the township says it cannot ban data centers outright (utilities and regulation).
Timing
- Ends
- unknown
Reported as a framework regulating future development, not a development pause: reported framework. Final text was not retrieved; sunset or other temporary provisions are unknown.
People behind it
- Bedford Township Board of Supervisors
Unanimously approved the data center ordinance.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements5
Sets standards for data-center water use; the sources do not specify a limit or threshold.
Sets noise-level standards for data centers; the sources do not specify the limits.
Sets standards concerning data-center electrical infrastructure; details are not provided.
Includes environmental-protection standards for data-center development; details are not provided.
Requires emergency-response planning standards for data centers; details are not provided.
Sources
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