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 Marshfield
Strongly Anti-Data Center Policies
Marshfield’s adopted ordinance excludes data centers from several permitted and special-use zoning categories, effectively preventing development through those pathways.
current law · Town of MarshfieldAmends the Town of Marshfield Zoning Ordinance to define “Data Center” and exclude data centers from specified zoning provisions, as reflected in the listed amendments.Town of Marshfield Ordinance 2026-005 (2026)
What this means
The measure defines data centers and excludes them from a range of permitted and special-use categories across the town, making it effectively a ban on building or operating them under those zoning pathways (excludes data centers in various districts). The board adopted the amendment, and the sources describe no offsetting benefits for data-center development (adopt Ordinance 2026-005).
People behind it
- Plan Commission
Recommended approval of the zoning ordinance amendment as written, as recorded in the meeting minutes.
- Ken Kraus
Jointly moved adoption of Ordinance 2026-005 with Joe Rappl, according to the meeting minutes.
- Joe Rappl
Jointly moved adoption of Ordinance 2026-005 with Ken Kraus, according to the meeting minutes.
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- Town Board
Adopted Ordinance 2026-005, the zoning amendment excluding data centers, as recorded in the meeting minutes.
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Ordinance 2026-005 defines “Data Center” and excludes data centers from the uses identified in Zoning Ordinance Sections 5.3.7, 6.3.2, 9.2, 11.8.1.b, 11.8.2.b and 11.8.2.k, 11.8.3.k, 11.8.3.n and 11.8.3.o, and 11.8.5.j. This prevents data centers from qualifying under those listed permitted or special-use categories; the notice identifies the amendment as one to “exclude Data Centers” from those sections.
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