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Cliff · Data center policy snapshot · May 9

The ground under data center siting is shifting state-by-state

10restrictive

4permissive

2in-flight

ME16

WA1

MN8

WI9

OH10

UT3

CO2

VA15

AZ4

KS5

NC13,14

GA11

TX6,7

FL12

Restrictive (moratorium / ballot ban / cost-of-service)

Permissive (project / framework approved)

In-flight (RTO or regulator decision pending)

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Seattle · May 1
Mayor Wilson plans 365-day moratorium on facilities ≥10 MW
2
Colorado · May 7
House committee kills HB 1030 DC tax-incentive package 11-2 — first 2026 state defeat
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Box Elder County · May 4
9 GW Stratos campus approved unanimously — 40k acres, off-grid gas
4
Maricopa County · May 6
Project Baccara approved 4-1 — $36B / 700 MW gas DC near Luke AFB
5
Sedgwick County · May 6
90-day moratorium extended to Sep 11
6
ERCOT · May 19
TAC vote on PCLR Batch Zero (NPRR1325 + PGRR145) — effective Jul 10
7
El Paso · May 6
Meta closes ~$13B financing for 1 GW Sopaipilla campus — BTM gas
8
Hermantown · May 4
Council tables vote on Google $2B project + $80M / 28-yr abatement
9
Oneida County · May 8
Zoning advances proactive 1-yr moratorium — no proposal pending
10
Ohio · Jul 1
Constitutional ballot to ban DCs >25 MW — 413,488 signatures due
11
Bulloch County · May 6
Moratorium extended through December
12
Florida · May 7
DeSantis signs SB 484 — PSC must develop DC tariffs, effective Jul 1
13
Durham · May 4
60-day moratorium passed — 24-month follow-on intended
14
Northampton County · May 4
32-month moratorium passed unanimously
15
Virginia DEQ · May 7
APG-576 locks Tier 4 BACT as presumptive for emergency + non-emergency gen-sets
16
Maine · Apr 29
Gov. Mills veto of LD 307 sustained; advisory council established instead

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Mon, August 17, 2026

Abbott Jul 24 joint-memo actions / pay own infrastructure / 3 legislative asks 2027 / Project 58000 4CP→12CP comments Aug 11 adoption by Dec 31 / ride-through Jul 13 / Docket 59220 Crusoe/Ensign 260 MW + 265.5 MW wind uncapped curtailment first §39.169 test / Amazon GW Ranch 7.65 GW Pecos County off-grid largest TX BTM / NRG 1.2 GW BYOP CCGT / Energy Vault 1.25 GW BESS+gensets

While the audit froze the front door, the rest of the Texas architecture kept assembling. Abbott's July 17 PUCT/ERCOT joint memo produced its public actions July 24: data centers pay for their own infrastructure, residential ratepayers get shielded from...

Office of the Texas Governor — PUC and ERCOT Actions Protecting Residential Ratepayers (Jul 24 2026) + PUCT Project 58000 PFP (interchange, Jul 9 2026) + Utility Dive — Texas approves AI data center co-location next to wind farm with curtailment + Distilled — Amazon is behind one of the largest off-grid data center projects (Aug 7 2026) + NRG Q2 8-K (Aug 4 2026) ↗

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Mon, August 17, 2026

Paducah $100B+ NextEra/Brookfield 2 GW gas + 2.6 GW storage + 1.8 GW compute Jul 29 / Nvidia $105B backstop OpenAI 4.25 GW PORTS-Pike Ohio Aug 17 / Savannah River Amentum 1 GW + 2 GW gas / BLM first public-land approval appealed / EPA islanded BTM Acid Rain exemption Jul 16 + 60-day NOI / DOE 202(c) SPP + JH Campbell extended / 3 NIETCs canceled Aug 12 / six-RTO show-cause answers due TODAY Aug 17 all asked +3 months / Pledge 200+ utilities 23 governors / S.4214 0 cosponsors HR9442 13 / NoVA 3.8 GW trip Jul 22 largest in PJM history

The Trump administration's answer to the siting war is to route around it: federal land, federal fast-track, and federal emissions accommodation. The federal-site pipeline went from concept to $200B+ in five weeks. July 29: DOE announced a $100B+...

KFVS12 — Paducah DOE site picked for AI computing campus (Jul 29 2026) + Nvidia Newsroom — Nvidia guarantees SB Energy's PORTS-Pike Technology Campus (Aug 17 2026) + EPA — Clarification on islanded power generators and Acid Rain Program (Jul 16 2026) + DOE — NIETC cancellations (Aug 12 2026) + RTO Insider — Every ISO/RTO asks FERC for extra three months on large loads ↗

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Wed, July 1, 2026

T-0 Jul 1 2026 / VA $0.011/kWh tax live 12:01 AM SCC collecting / IL DCIP application intake frozen Pritzker fall veto session reform / FL SB 484 live utility cost shift prohibition ≥50 MW full cost of service aquifer permitting tightened / Trump EO 14318 live federal permitting acceleration DC >100 MW or >$500M / IL joins OH AZ ME cluster / VA DEQ water language interim today hard cutover Jan 1 2027 Eastern VA Groundwater Mgmt Area / Data Center Coalition Josh Levi opposed / state-federal misalignment first visible day

Plain-English background. Four separate regulatory clocks all reach 12:01 AM Wednesday July 1, 2026 at the same instant. Three are state-level and point toward friction — they increase cost or reduce access for hyperscalers building in that state. One is...

Greenberg Traurig — Virginia Legislature Approves Tax on Data Center Electricity Consumption (Jun 2026) + Data Center Knowledge — Virginia Approves First-Ever Data Center Power Tax + Illinois Governor's Newsroom — Gov. Pritzker Pauses New Data Center Tax Incentives + Capitol News Illinois — Gov. JB Pritzker to Suspend Tax Breaks for Data Centers, Urging More Discussion + The Hill — Pritzker Pauses Data Center Tax Incentives in Illinois + MultiState — State Data Center Policy Shifts as Governors Impose New Restrictions (Jun 22 2026) + Whitehouse.gov — Executive Order 14318 Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security (Jun 2026) + AI Governance Institute — EO 14318 Accelerating Federal Permitting Data Center Infrastructure 2026 + Henrico Citizen — Virginia Has a New Two-Year Budget. Here's What Lawmakers Now Require of Data Centers + Kiplinger — Virginia Approves First Data Center Power Tax ↗

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Tue, June 16, 2026

VA DEQ Tier 4 / HB 507 / Jul 1 2026 effective / SCR + DPF + CEMS required / non-emergency designation

Plain-English framing. A 'backup generator' at a hyperscale data center is a diesel or natural-gas engine that turns on if utility power fails. A typical 100 MW hyperscale campus has 40-80 of them. Historically, these were treated as 'emergency' generators —...

Virginia DEQ Guidance Memo APG-578 / HB 507 / Data Center Knowledge / Hunton Andrews Kurth / DediRock ↗

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Mon, June 15, 2026

EPA May 11 / NSR 'begin actual construction' / 45-day comment / air permit timing restructure

Plain-English framing. The Clean Air Act's New Source Review (NSR) program requires that a 'major source' of air pollution obtain a pre-construction permit before construction begins. The phrase 'begin actual construction' has been interpreted (since the 1980...

EPA proposed rule / Gibson Dunn / Butler Snow / Inside Climate News / Troutman Pepper Locke ↗

ERCOTPJMEPAOhioAir permitInterconnectionBehind-the-meter

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Sun, June 14, 2026

Ohio Socrates South / 200 MW BTM gas / Williams + Meta / approved Jun 9 / build-around pattern

Plain-English framing. 'Behind the meter' (BTM) means generation that sits on the customer's side of the utility meter and never injects power into the grid. It bypasses every interconnection-queue rule, every capacity-market rule, every transmission-cost...

DCD / Power Magazine / Power Engineering ↗

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Sun, May 24, 2026

Air permits / VA Tier 4 BACT July 1 + EPA 'Begin Actual Construction' loosening

Plain-English framing: under the Clean Air Act, a 'major source' of air pollution (which any data center with significant backup-generator capacity is) cannot start physical construction until its air permit is issued. The permit specifies what control...

Virginia DEQ / Bloomberg Law / E&E News / Data Center Knowledge ↗

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Mon, May 18, 2026

Denver / Cheyenne / Charlotte / Cave City / PJM compliance

Today is the single highest-density 'moratorium decision day' of 2026 so far. Four municipal-level decisions in geographically distinct markets (Mountain West urban, Sun Belt urban, central Kentucky rural, Mountain West regional capital) plus a structurally...

9news / CBS Colorado / Yellow Scene / Denver Gazette / Cap City News / Wyoming Public Media / WBTV / Axios Charlotte / Govtech / WCLU Radio / Utility Dive ↗

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Thu, May 7, 2026

VA DEQ / July 1 cutoff

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's APG-576 (Diesel Engine-Generator Set Procedure for Writing New and Modified Permits) became effective April 9, 2026, with the new BACT (Best Available Control Technology) requirements applicable to air permit...

Virginia DEQ / Trinity Consultants ↗

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