Charlotte NC / 11-0 / 150-day / Nov 5 expiry

Plain-English framing. Charlotte is the second-biggest US banking center after New York (Bank of America HQ, Truist HQ, Wells Fargo's east coast hub) and the dominant Carolina metro. Until this week the assumption was that bank-anchored cities would be friendly to data center buildouts because financial-services tenants overlap heavily with the demand. That assumption broke 11-0. The moratorium runs through November 5, 2026. It exempts any project with valid building permits or 'substantial expenditures already made in good faith' — most notably the first phase of PowerHouse Charlotte (the University City area campus). City staff will use the 150 days to draft new zoning regulations covering noise, water draw, and electric infrastructure cost recovery. The political driver was resident testimony at recent council hearings citing noise from existing facilities and rising utility costs. North Carolina has 93 data centers operating today, 35 of them in Charlotte. That's the highest concentration in the Southeast outside of Northern Virginia. The state is also where Duke Energy's Public Staff filed last week for a mandatory 50 MW / 80% load factor tariff (covered in the June 10 digest). So Charlotte's moratorium and the Duke state-level tariff filing are now stacked on the same developer in the same week.

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