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.
Dodge County
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Pro-Data Center Policies
Dodge County’s enacted ordinance temporarily pauses new data-center siting, construction, and operation for 18 months in 13 participating towns’ unincorporated areas; it is not a permanent countywide ban. The description also calls the measure conditional, conflicting with its enacted status.
Rating from Wisconsin statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Dodge County.
Specific to Dodge County only.
current law · County measure: Unincorporated areas in the 13 towns participating in the county zoning programTemporarily prohibits the siting, construction, and operation of data centers in Dodge County’s unincorporated areas for 18 months while the county studies their impacts and develops rules.Dodge County Ordinance No. 1197
What this means
If enacted, the measure would pause new data-center siting, construction, and operation in the 13 participating towns for 18 months, creating a major development delay (18-month moratorium). It applies only in unincorporated areas and is temporary, while the county studies future rules, so it is not a permanent countywide ban.
Timing
- Ends
- 18 months after adoption
The moratorium took effect upon adoption; the source does not state the adoption date.
People behind it
- Dodge County Land Resources and Parks Committee
Recommended approval of the moratorium and was directed to study data center impacts and recommend permanent zoning and planning changes.
- Dodge County Board of Supervisors
Approved the moratorium and made it effective upon adoption.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
An 18-month moratorium temporarily bars the siting, construction, and operation of data centers in unincorporated areas of the 13 towns participating in the county zoning program.
Benefits & exceptionsHide benefits & exceptions1
Applications are decided under the requirements in effect when filed. For a project requiring multiple approvals, those requirements can also apply to later approvals if the applicant identifies the project’s full scope in the first application. This protection is limited by the separate moratorium on data-center applications and permits during its term. Existing requirements Moratorium
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