Manitowoc County WI passed unanimous 18-month moratorium Apr 21 after a developer approached three towns with land offers. Swain County NC unanimous 12-month Apr 22. Orange County NC unanimous 1-year Apr 22. Weaverville NC reclassified data centers + crypto as 'noxious uses' Apr 28. Cassville WI rejected an anonymous $1B / 500-acre Driftless proposal. Good Jobs First counts 63 local moratorium actions introduced/considered/adopted in 2026; 54 already passed.
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Why it matters
This is a new strategy/ surface — local-zoning-moratorium-corpus. Every passed moratorium is a 12-18 month freeze that re-shuffles the siting map (away from the moratorium county, toward Texas / SC / GA / NoVa-with-existing-pipeline). For paces.md / landgate.md / transect.md positioning: the structured moratorium-status dataset is exactly the unstructured-text-to-structured-data wedge that fits the AI-native test. Worth a 1-day script: scrape Good Jobs First's tracker, normalize to county FIPS + status + sunset date, plot against active interconnection requests.
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