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 Cedar Hill
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Slightly Pro-Data Center Policies
Cedar Hill has enacted a two-year pause on construction of data centers and cryptocurrency-mining facilities, potentially making expansions harder; the description does not say it stops existing facilities from operating.
Rating from Tennessee statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for City of Cedar Hill.
current law · City of Cedar HillImposes a temporary two-year moratorium on constructing data centers and cryptocurrency-mining facilities within Cedar Hill’s city limits, as approved by the city council.Cedar Hill, Tennessee Two-Year Moratorium on Data Centers and Cryptocurrency-Mining Facilities
What this means
If enacted, the two-year moratorium would block construction of data centers and cryptocurrency-mining facilities within Cedar Hill, making new development—and potentially expansion—substantially harder during that period (“two-year moratorium on the construction”). The sources do not say it would stop existing facilities from operating, but a temporary moratorium of this length fits the -4 anchor.
Timing
- Ends
- two years after adoption
The moratorium applies to construction of data centers and cryptocurrency mining facilities within Cedar Hill city limits. No extension condition is stated.
People behind it
- Cedar Hill City Council
Voted to approve the resolution imposing the two-year moratorium on data centers and cryptocurrency mining facilities within city limits.
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Imposes a two-year moratorium on constructing data centers or cryptocurrency mining facilities within Cedar Hill city limits.
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