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 Eau Claire
Neutral Data Center Policies
Eau Claire County’s plan encourages towns to protect farmland and calls for notice about projects that could affect groundwater. It is not a regulation, so its recommendations place little direct burden on data-center construction or operation.
Rating and summary from Eau Claire County as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for City of Eau Claire.
current law · City of Eau ClaireEstablishes a new Land Development Ordinance effective October 1, 2025, replacing Eau Claire’s prior land-development and zoning framework last updated in 1990.Wisconsin Eau Claire Land Development Ordinance (2025)
People behind it
- Xcel Energy
Proposed a new large load tariff to the Wisconsin Public Service Commission.
- Planning Division
Administers the Land Development Ordinance.
- Inspection Services Division
Administers the Land Development Ordinance.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements2
A Supplemental Standard would require developers to show that a data center building could be redeveloped for another use that serves the City.
Section d of the Good Neighbor Pledge would require escrow funding, creating an added financial requirement; the minutes do not specify the amount or purpose.
Benefits & exceptionsHide benefits & exceptions1
Under the current comprehensive plan, data centers are allowed in light and heavy industrial zoning districts (“data centers would be allowed”).
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