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 Cheyenne
Pro-Data Center Policies
Wyoming offers sales and use tax exemptions that can reduce costs for qualifying data centers, including some shared facilities. Eligibility depends on meeting investment, purchasing, and job requirements, and occupants may need to meet conditions together.
Rating and summary from Wyoming statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for City of Cheyenne.
failed · City of CheyenneWould impose a temporary 12-month moratorium on establishing, constructing, or converting buildings or structures for data-center use in Cheyenne, allowing City staff to study impacts including the environment, electricity rates, the power grid, and water usage.Wyoming Cheyenne Ordinance (2026)
What this means
If enacted, this would pause for 12 months approvals for data centers that have not started substantial on-site construction, creating a major delay for new projects and expansions (applications would be held during the moratorium). It would not stop operation of existing data centers or apply to those already under construction, so it is a severe temporary restriction rather than a complete ban.
Timing
- Ends
- twelve (12) months from the date of publication unless further extended by the Governing Body
The moratorium applies to covered data-center applications and projects, with stated exceptions for data centers already under construction and repair or replacement of existing data centers.
People behind it
- Mark Moody
Sponsor of the ordinance imposing the temporary twelve-month moratorium on data centers.
- City staff
Responsible for administering the moratorium, notifying affected applicants, tolling application timelines, and studying data-center impacts.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements6
Imposes a 12-month moratorium on processing, considering, approving, or issuing licenses, permits, approvals, permitted or special uses, site plans, conditional uses, rezonings, variances, and other authorizations for establishing, constructing, or converting a building or structure to data-center use within the City.
Applications for data centers that have not begun on-site construction must be held in abeyance during the moratorium, and related application deadlines are tolled for the moratorium's duration.
The moratorium applies unless on-site construction has commenced through substantial physical site work, such as grading, excavation, or foundation installation; design, engineering, permitting, financing, equipment procurement, and contractual commitments do not qualify as on-site construction.
Data centers currently under construction and the repair or replacement of existing data centers are exempt from the moratorium.
An applicant may withdraw an application delayed by the moratorium and receive a refund of fees paid to the City.
The moratorium remains effective for 12 months from publication and may be extended by the Governing Body.
Benefits & exceptionsHide benefits & exceptions2
Data centers already under construction are exempt from the moratorium, so construction may continue. This applies only after substantial on-site physical work has begun, such as grading, excavation, or foundation installation.
Existing data centers may be repaired or replaced despite the moratorium.
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