November 3, 2026 · Election tracker
How communities voted on data center bans, zoning, and voter approval.
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46 measures · 257,771 votes counted
See full results tableLocks in Alhambra's existing ban on data centers in every zone, so a future council could not repeal it without another public vote. If it fails, the council's ban stays in place unless the council changes it.
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Writes a ban on new data centers, including cloud, AI, crypto-mining and colocation facilities, into Edgewater's city charter. The council already banned them by ordinance; supporters say a charter ban is harder for a future council to undo.
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Non-binding question asking whether new data centers should be permitted in Chouteau Township. Three neighboring Madison County townships ask the same question.
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Non-binding question asking whether voters support a moratorium on large-scale data centers. The city council already has a six-month moratorium and is drafting rules to limit large data centers to the M2 industrial district.
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Non-binding question asking whether new data centers should be permitted in Granite City Township. Three neighboring Madison County townships ask the same question.
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Non-binding question asking whether the Joliet City Council should approve AI data centers, after the council approved a 795-acre AI data center campus 8 to 1.
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Non-binding countywide question on whether Morgan County should restrict data centers. The county has no zoning, and its commissioners say that leaves them unable to deny a project.
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Non-binding question asking whether new data centers should be permitted in Nameoki Township. Three neighboring Madison County townships ask the same question.
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Non-binding question asking whether new data centers should be permitted in Venice Township. Three neighboring Madison County townships ask the same question.
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Bans high-impact data centers and large battery storage systems in Americus, a small town in Lyon County. The ballot does not say how big a data center must be to count as high-impact.
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Bans high-impact data centers (over 10 MW) and large battery storage systems in El Dorado. Once adopted, the city commission could not change it for ten years without a public vote.
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Bans data centers that draw more than 10 MW of power or 100,000 gallons of water a day from every zoning district in Emporia. If it passes, it takes effect only after a court rules on the city's challenge to the petition.
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Bans data centers that use more than 25 MW in Ottawa. The city has since ended its land-sale contract for the Lightfield Energy project.
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Pauses all data center applications in Eliot for 180 days, whatever the size, and directs town boards to draft permanent rules.
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Bars any data center in Freedom and stops town officials from acting on data center applications, from the day it passes. The text sets no end date, though town officials have described it as about six months.
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Bans data centers of 25,000 square feet or more from every zoning district in North Berwick; smaller server rooms that support another use are still allowed.
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Pauses all data center applications and permits in Peru for 180 days from the day it passes. No data center has been proposed in the town.
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Pauses new or expanded data centers of 10,000 square feet or 20 MW or more in Sabattus until May 2, 2027, backdated to July 28, 2026, with fines of $5,000 a day.
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Pauses data centers of 100,000 square feet or more in Wells for 180 days, backdated to June 16, 2026, so the pause ends in mid-December unless the town extends it.
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Pauses applications for new or expanded data centers in Wiscasset for six months, starting with applications filed on Nov 3; the Select Board can extend it.
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Pauses data centers of 5,000 square feet or more in Brownfield for 180 days, backdated to Sept 16, 2026, so it runs to about mid-March 2027.
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A YES vote makes data centers an allowed use on about 14,000 acres of city-owned desert in the Eldorado Valley, outside the protected tortoise habitat. Each lease would still need council approval.
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Non-binding question asking whether Belvidere should pursue an outright ban on data centers when it re-examines its Master Plan. Data centers are not allowed in any zone today but could still seek a variance.
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Non-binding question asking whether voters support data centers in Downe Township. The township committee has also moved to ban them in every zone with its own ordinance.
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Amends Conneaut's charter to ban data centers that draw more than 25 MW. No data center has been formally proposed in the city.
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Amends Defiance's charter to ban building data centers that draw more than 25 MW.
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Bans building any data center in Hubbard, of any size, including turning an existing building into one.
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Amends Pataskala's charter to ban building data centers that draw more than 25 MW. The council already rejected Aligned Data Centers' 200 MW plan, and Aligned is challenging that in court.
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Amends Piqua's charter to ban building data centers that draw more than 25 MW. Residents petitioned for it after the city approved a Meta data center campus.
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Amends Sunbury's charter to ban data centers that draw more than 25 MW. Amazon has proposed a campus of about $2 billion in the city's technology park.
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Amends Trenton's charter to ban building data centers that draw more than 25 MW. It reached the ballot after the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the council to certify the petition.
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Amends Upper Sandusky's charter to ban building data centers, reportedly those over 25 MW; the city's charter commission put it on the ballot. A self-powered facility of about 150 MW has been proposed north of town.
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Writes a ban on data centers into Urbana's city charter, exempting only small private facilities that serve a single organization and draw under 7.5 MW.
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A YES vote keeps the council's rezoning of 119 acres on SR 730 from rural residential to light industrial for data center use; a NO vote overturns it. It is one of four Wilmington rezoning votes covering about 546 acres.
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A YES vote keeps the council's rezoning of 191 acres on McGuinn Road from rural residential to light industrial for data center use; a NO vote overturns it. It is one of four Wilmington rezoning votes covering about 546 acres.
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A YES vote keeps the council's rezoning of 170 acres on U.S. 68 South from rural residential to light industrial for data center use; a NO vote overturns it. It is one of four Wilmington rezoning votes covering about 546 acres.
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A YES vote keeps the council's rezoning of 65 acres at 1957 SR 730 from rural residential to light industrial for data center use; a NO vote overturns it. It is one of four Wilmington rezoning votes covering about 546 acres.
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A FOR vote adopts township zoning, which would give Monroe Township authority over the data center planned at the former Killen power plant site.
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A FOR vote adopts township zoning, which would give Sprigg Township authority over the data center planned at the former J.M. Stuart power plant site.
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A YES vote upholds the council's agreement with EdgeConneX for two data centers and a gas plant on about 195 acres. A NO vote rejects the agreement, though that alone does not stop construction.
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Amends Granville's village charter to ban data centers that draw more than 25 MW. No data center has been proposed in the village.
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Non-binding question asking whether residents support allowing data center development in the village, subject to zoning and development agreements. The result does not approve or block any project by itself.
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Requires any hyperscale data center that seeks a tax break in Perry to first post a bond at least equal to its projected tax revenue plus the pay of 200 full-time workers, and to keep noise under 50 decibels by day and 45 at night. It sets conditions rather than banning data centers.
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Requires a citywide vote before any development of 50 acres or more, or one using more than 20 MW of power or 500,000 gallons of water a day, with the developer paying for the election. It is not a ban, but it would put the proposed 300-acre data center to a vote.
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Amends Oregon's charter to cap data centers at 25 MW. Organizers say it would steer development to brownfield and industrial sites; a data center has been proposed on farmland in the city.
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Requires a citywide vote to approve any deal worth more than $450 million at the city-owned former GM/JATCO site. It does not mention data centers, but it was written to stop Viridian Partners' proposed 800 MW data center campus there.
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