Data center projects that were stopped

NorthPoint Development proposed a 15 building, roughly 1,300 acre data center campus in Hazle Township known as Project Hazelnut, with Amazon reported as the end user. Township supervisors denied the proposal in November 2025, Luzerne County Court upheld that denial on appeal, and NorthPoint's further appeal was still pending before the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court as of October 2026 with no ruling yet issued. While that appeal is pending, NorthPoint began offering about $10,000 in direct payments to roughly 4,500 eligible households plus a wider package reported at up to 165 million dollars in community benefits if the project is approved, an offer that has drawn criticism from local opposition group the Alliance To Stop The Line.

A still undisclosed developer, with the underlying parcels controlled by Florida based Amzak Capital Management, had proposed a 27,000 square foot data center at 100 Jersey Avenue within the Jersey-Sandford Redevelopment Plan Area in New Brunswick. After city officials disclosed the plan and hundreds of residents packed a February 18, 2026 hearing over concerns about electricity and water costs, the New Brunswick City Council voted unanimously to amend the redevelopment plan to remove data centers as a permitted use. The site is now slated to proceed with its earlier planned redevelopment of about 600 apartments, small business space, and a public park instead.

Posey County Commissioners voted in early August 2026 to reject a proposed data center near the intersection of Boberg and Hoenert roads after a June 2026 meeting packed with concerned residents, though the developer was never publicly named and had signed a non-disclosure agreement rather than filing a formal application. Commissioners said they were still considering data center proposals at other locations in the county, and by late September 2026 local reporting identified Amazon as a company in early discussions about developing elsewhere in Posey County, again without a filed application. The county's Area Plan Commission separately adopted a new countywide data center zoning ordinance on October 1-2, 2026 that now heads to the Board of Commissioners for final consideration.

Developer Vincent de Monaco sought to convert the Delta Storage self storage facility on New Hook Road in Bayonne's Constable Hook industrial district into an AI data center, and the Planning Board and City Council advanced a zoning change allowing it in December 2025. Residents packed council meetings for months, and the fight became a central issue in Bayonne's May 2026 municipal election, which the anti data center slate led by Mayor Sharon Ashe Nadrowski swept. The new council voted 5-0 on August 12, 2026 to ban data centers citywide, making Bayonne the 32nd New Jersey municipality to do so and effectively killing the New Hook Road proposal.

Hexa Builders won preliminary site plan approval in January 2026 for two warehouses totaling 1.6 million square feet on farmland along Black Horse Pike in Williamstown, which neighbors warned could later be converted to a roughly 1 million square foot AI data center. As opposition grew, Monroe Township's council passed ordinances in April 2026 removing data centers as a permitted use on the site and banning them townshipwide, then formally denied Hexa's data center and warehouse application. Hexa sued Monroe Township for more than 300 million dollars in New Jersey Superior Court on June 5, 2026, and the case was later moved to federal court in Camden.

San Francisco based Diode Ventures proposed Project Harper, a 1.5 billion dollar data storage and technology park on 504 acres between 203rd and 211th streets in Peculiar, a Kansas City suburb of about 3,000 people. Residents organized as Peaceful Peculiar packed council meetings over noise, light, water, and property value concerns, and the Board of Aldermen unanimously rejected the proposal in September 2024, then removed data centers from the list of permitted uses entirely. Peculiar was among the earliest US communities to defeat a data center through grassroots opposition.

Atlanta based developer PBA Holdings sought approval for Project Tango, a data center and warehouse campus on 202 acres along Southern Boulevard west of Loxahatchee Groves in northern Palm Beach County. After the plan was scaled back from an original 3.7 million square feet to about 1 million square feet of data center space amid community outcry, county commissioners voted 5 to 1 on July 16, 2026, after a hearing that ran more than 12 hours, to deny the application without prejudice, meaning it can be revised and refiled. Commissioners also advanced a countywide moratorium and new hyperscale data center regulations for a first reading in late August 2026.

Bitcoin mining company Boxminer.io proposed a 20 megawatt, closed loop cooled data center on 19.5 acres of the La Pine Industrial Park along Reed Road, promising an 800 million dollar investment and up to 200 jobs, a figure later revised down to 50 to 60. Residents packed council meetings to object that the load was equivalent to 15 times the town's current electricity use, and raised concerns about groundwater, noise, and hazardous air releases, while city staff questioned the developer's job and revenue claims. The La Pine City Council unanimously rejected the project on May 27, 2026.

An attorney representing an unnamed client asked the city of Eugene in July 2026 whether a data center would be allowed at the shuttered 1.2 million square foot Hynix semiconductor plant on 200 acres in west Eugene. The city's planning director ruled on September 8, 2026 that a modern data center does not fit the site's Campus Employment zoning, saying the information technology services category in Eugene's code, written in 2001, was never meant to cover large scale data centers. The decision can be appealed to the state Land Use Board of Appeals, and it comes as Eugene residents have separately called for a citywide data center moratorium.

Lex Developments proposed converting the shuttered Hoku Materials polysilicon plant on 49 acres on the west side of Pocatello into a data center of seven 100,000 square foot buildings, a roughly 2.26 billion dollar, 200 megawatt project. The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, whose Fort Hall Reservation is nearby, opposed the plan on ceded land, and hundreds of residents turned out to a May 2026 public hearing before the city's hearing examiner denied the project, citing the developer's failure to show it would not harm community health and safety. Lex Developments appealed, and the Pocatello City Council upheld the denial in July 2026; Bannock County separately adopted a 180 day moratorium on data center permits on July 30, 2026.

Oppidan and landowner Rockport LLC proposed a technology park of seven buildings, including five data centers, totaling about 1 million square feet, on 134 acres of former sand and gravel mining land at the southwest corner of County Road 42 and Pilot Knob Road in Apple Valley. The Apple Valley City Council rejected the comprehensive plan amendment the project needed in January 2026 and formally denied the proposal, citing conflicts with the city's comprehensive plan and its inability to fund the water treatment and storage expansion the project would have required.

Geronimo Power proposed the Nobles County Powered Data Park, a 400 to 450 megawatt data center on about 640 acres between the towns of Brewster and Reading in southwestern Minnesota, paired with new wind, solar, and battery generation the company already operates nearby. The Nobles County Board rejected the zoning change the project needed in April 2026. Geronimo Power had pitched the proposal as a farmer friendly, community focused approach, and it is unclear whether the company will pursue a revised plan or a different site in the county.

Brewster Land Company LLC, owner of a roughly 155 acre parcel at South Main and Yeager Roads, filed a substantive validity challenge arguing Dorrance Township's zoning ordinance unlawfully excludes data centers from its B-2 Highway Business District. The township zoning hearing board unanimously denied the challenge on May 6, 2026, finding the ordinance does not unlawfully exclude the use. Brewster's attorney said at the time the company anticipated appealing to the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas, but no filing of that appeal has been confirmed in available reporting.

Shadowbox Studios, the renamed Blackhall Studios, and affiliate Henrico 183 want to build a data center on about 155 acres at 3600 International Park Drive in south DeKalb County, a separate site from the Bouldercrest Road property also tied to Blackhall's founder. DeKalb planning staff denied the application in June 2026 citing the county's data center moratorium, and the DeKalb County Zoning Board of Appeals affirmed that denial on September 9, 2026. Shadowbox's separate lawsuit against DeKalb County challenging the moratorium itself remains pending in superior court.

The Coweta County Board of Commissioners unanimously denied the Project Oak rezoning request at its August 25, 2026 hearing on the Walt Sanders Road property in the Madras community. The developer had sought to remove a 2024 zoning condition limiting the 255 acre industrial-zoned portion to office and warehouse use so a data center could be built instead. County procedure requires the applicant to wait six months before reapplying.

The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on August 13, 2026 to reject PCC-DeKalb LLC's roughly 1.6 billion dollar, 2 million square foot data center proposal on 95 acres in Ellenwood. The vote followed nearly a year of deferrals on an application that predated the county's data center moratorium, and drew support from residents in the majority Black Ellenwood community who had raised air quality and health concerns.

Vermaland's La Osa project would have put a data center and power complex across 3,385 acres south of Eloy along the Greene Canal and Santa Cruz Wash. After sustained resident opposition, the developer cut the plan from 59 buildings and up to 3 gigawatts down to about 11 buildings capped at 1 gigawatt with water and cost concessions, but the Pinal County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 on August 26, 2026 to deny the rezoning after nearly five hours of public comment, with 123 letters opposed versus 16 in support.

Aligned Data Centers purchased land in Pataskala in 2023 and filed an application in November 2025 to begin the zoning review process for a proposed 200 megawatt, three building site. Pataskala City Council voted 7-0 on August 25, 2026 to accept the planning board's recommendation and reject the proposal; an Aligned executive said the company would reflect and regroup, though no resubmission has been reported. Pataskala voters will separately decide a November 3, 2026 ballot measure on data centers over 25 megawatts.

A pending data center proposal at 300 Jones Road, filed by Lighthouse Data Centers, seeking to build without local tax incentives. Spartanburg County's Planning and Development Commission denied the application on June 26, 2026 citing zoning ordinance compliance issues and the county's newly adopted data center moratorium, and the county's Board of Zoning Appeals unanimously upheld that denial at its August 25, 2026 meeting, described in local coverage as the project's second and final rejection. This is separate from the countywide one year data center moratorium, which Spartanburg County Council was still set to take up on third reading around September 21, 2026.

Karis Critical proposed a roughly 145,000 square foot data center on the vacant former Lucent campus along the Interstate 88 corridor in Naperville. After months of resident opposition, including objections to 24 planned diesel backup generators, the Naperville City Council voted 6 to 1 on January 20, 2026 to deny the proposal.

New York developer Thor Equities sought to build a 1 billion dollar data center near Milan in Augusta Township, southeast of Ann Arbor, and got the township board to conditionally rezone 522 acres in July 2025 over its own planning commission's recommendation to deny. Opponents gathered enough signatures to force a townshipwide referendum, and on August 4, 2026 about 90 percent of voters chose to overturn the rezoning. The project cannot proceed on that land unless it is rezoned again.

A company called Solstice Data proposed a 26 megawatt data center near homes and a high school in Allen Park, a Detroit suburb. After the city's planning commission postponed a vote three times over incomplete traffic, sound, and engineering studies, it rejected the site plan 7 to 2 in June 2026. City officials are also weighing their own six month moratorium to write clearer rules before the next proposal arrives.

Chandler's City Council voted 7-0 on December 11, 2025 to reject a proposed AI data center from New York-based developer Active Infrastructure after hours of public opposition citing noise, water use and quality-of-life concerns. The vote drew national attention as an early example of a Phoenix-area city outright denying a data center project.

After hundreds of residents packed San Marcos City Hall, the City Council voted 5 to 2 at 3 a.m. to deny a proposed 1.5 billion dollar, 200 acre data center rezoning. The rejection preceded a June 2026 council vote that made San Marcos the first Texas city to fully ban data centers within its limits.

A proposed solar and hyperscale data center on 936 acres southeast of East Municipal Drive and northeast of Northeast Loop 289 was rejected when the Lubbock zoning and planning commission voted 4 to 3 against the zone change, and the case was withdrawn the following day. North and east Lubbock residents had objected, citing existing industrial burdens on the area.

White Rose Partners proposed Project Kilo, a 200,000 square foot data center on 20 acres near Route 25 and Kenyon Road in South Elgin, requiring annexation and a special use permit. The South Elgin Village Board of Trustees unanimously rejected the annexation and permit in August 2026 and the village then imposed a temporary moratorium on further data center proposals while it studies regulations.

A proposed hyperscale data center in Rural Hall drew months of opposition, and Forsyth County commissioners rejected the rezoning 5 to 2 on July 30, 2026, even though Rural Hall's own town board had passed a resolution supporting it.

Prince William supervisors voted 8-0 on July 7, 2026 to deny a Comprehensive Plan Amendment that would have opened nearly 2,000 acres in the Gainesville district to data center development. County staff had recommended against it over infrastructure, environmental and traffic concerns.

EdgeConneX proposed a six building, 4.4 million square foot data center campus with a utility substation on about 700 acres near the Interstate 20 and Liberty Road area of western Douglas County, close to Villa Rica. After a packed public hearing where the project size drew audible jeers from residents, Douglas County commissioners voted 4-1 on July 7, 2026 to deny the rezoning request, the second time in about seven months that county leaders rejected a large data center proposal on this same property.

Hanover supervisors rejected a 430-acre, roughly 900 megawatt data center campus along Mountain Road on a 4-3 vote on May 29, 2026, after months of resident opposition over water use, traffic and noise near the Chickahominy River.

A roughly 944 acre data center proposal called Byrd Farms Technology Campus, east of Louisville Road in Columbia County, was denied 4-1 by county commissioners on February 3-4, 2026. Commission chairman Doug Duncan said the board could not identify a confirmed end user for the project, which was the largest and most heavily opposed of three data center proposals decided that night. As of the most recent reporting there is no indication the applicant has resubmitted or appealed.

A rezoning request to convert about 970 acres of residential land near Bolingbroke, along I-475 and Highway 41, into a nine-building data center campus was rejected. The Monroe County Planning and Zoning board voted 5 to 0 against it in late July 2025 and the county commission followed with a unanimous denial on August 5, 2025 after nearly 900 residents turned out in opposition over water, noise, light pollution and the town's rural character. Property owners later sued the county over the denial.

Chesapeake City Council unanimously denied a rezoning for a 350,000 square foot data center on 22.6 acres at Centerville Turnpike and Etheridge Manor Boulevard in June 2025, the city's first data center proposal. Chesapeake has since paused new data center applications for eight months while it rewrites its zoning rules.

South Carolina based Stillwater Development sought to build up to 15 data center buildings totaling about 3.5 million square feet on roughly 400 acres off Panhandle Road in Lovejoy, Clayton County, after the city approved annexation and rezoning for the site in December 2024 and the developer filed a special administrative permit application in June 2026. The proposal, valued at about 1 billion dollars, drew sustained opposition over its proximity to Michelle Obama STEM Elementary Academy and Eddie White Middle School, including a petition with more than 500 signatures, and Stillwater withdrew its permit application in early August 2026, reverting to mixed use residential plans for the land. On September 21, 2026 the Lovejoy City Council amended its zoning code to explicitly prohibit all new data centers citywide, making this withdrawn project moot and Lovejoy one of a small but growing number of Georgia cities to ban data centers outright.

A roughly 1,000 megawatt data center proposed on timberland near Smoaks in the ACE Basin watershed. After about 400 residents opposed it at a December 2025 hearing the developer did not reapply; the county passed a six month moratorium and drafted overlay zoning critics said might accommodate a future project on the same land. On October 5, 2026 Colleton County settled a lawsuit with the Southern Environmental Law Center by creating a Data Center Exclusion Area that bans data centers across roughly 62 percent of the county, including the ACE Basin land near Smoaks where this project was proposed.

Viridian Acquisitions proposed an 8 billion dollar, 11 building, 800 megawatt data center campus on the city owned former GM/JATCO auto plant site, which closed in 2008. After a 4,000 signature petition and months of packed public meetings, the Janesville City Council voted unanimously in June 2026 to let its letter of intent with Viridian expire, ending the specific proposal. As of early October 2026 no new developer has stepped in at the site, but voters will still decide the November 3, 2026 referendum requiring a citywide vote before any future project over 450 million dollars can be approved on the site's undeveloped portions.

Developer Trent Overhue had proposed converting part of a shuttered 160,000 square foot Walmart at 5825 West Hope Avenue in Milwaukee into a roughly 19,000 square foot data processing facility needing about 7 megawatts of power, alongside a self storage facility, a library branch and affordable housing on the same site. After more than 300 residents registered opposition over energy, water, noise and air quality concerns, Alderman Mark Chambers announced on July 6, 2026 that the computing facility component had been dropped from the redevelopment plan entirely. The revised Midtown Center proposal keeps the self storage facility, relocated library branch, and separately approved affordable housing, but no longer includes any data center use.

The developer behind the proposed eight-building, 2.5 million square foot data center campus near County Road 4 and 50th Avenue in northeast Brighton withdrew its rezoning application on October 6, 2026, the day before a scheduled city council meeting. Despite the withdrawal, Brighton's city council voted unanimously on October 7, 2026 to pass a one-year moratorium on new data center applications on first reading, having expanded an initially proposed 180 day pause; a second reading is scheduled for October 20, 2026. No developer name was confirmed in city filings beyond planning firm Dewberry, though neighborhood opposition groups had identified the developer as California based Raeden.

Austin, Texas based Clean Cloud Energy approached the Village of Mahomet about a roughly 340 acre data center campus, called "Rising Edge" in draft agreements, on farmland in unincorporated Mahomet Township west of Champaign. The talks had been underway for months under non disclosure agreements and a draft deal capping the developer's financial contributions at 17.35 million dollars before the village went public with the approach on September 28, 2026. After resident questions and concerns, Mahomet officials announced on October 5, 2026 that they had ended discussions with Clean Cloud Energy and the project is no longer active.

American Tower Corporation proposed a small, 15,895 square foot, 4 megawatt edge data center on wooded land at its existing cell tower site on Mantua Road in the Mount Royal section of East Greenwich Township. The plan drew a petition with more than 5,800 signatures and formal opposition from the New Jersey Sierra Club, and American Tower withdrew the application on June 9, 2026, canceling the scheduled hearing. East Greenwich Township then adopted its own ordinance banning future data center development in response to the fight.

CRG, the development arm of Clayco, proposed a 1 billion dollar data center called Project Cumulus with up to five buildings and 1.5 million square feet on 440 acres off Highway 370 in St. Charles. Later reporting linked the project to Google. After hundreds of residents raised concerns about water use, including a Missouri Department of Conservation estimate of 5 million gallons a day discharged into Dardenne Creek, CRG pulled the project from the council agenda. The city then adopted a one year moratorium and has since moved toward a permanent ban on data centers.

Longtime Florida land developer Deltona Corporation sought a comprehensive plan amendment and rezoning to expand its Holder Industrial Park in Citrus County from residential to heavy industrial use on about 1,365 acres, after the company's lawyers said Amazon had inquired about a data center there under a confidentiality agreement. Citrus County's Planning and Development Commission recommended against the change after a nine hour meeting on June 18, 2026, and Deltona withdrew both applications on June 23, 2026 rather than face a final vote. Citrus County had already adopted a one year moratorium on new data center rezoning in May 2026.

Amazon Web Services revealed plans in April 2026 to build the Calvert Technology Center, a set of seven data center buildings across three campuses totaling about 2.4 million square feet and up to 500 megawatts, next to the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Lusby, and submitted a Conceptual Site Development Plan application in May 2026. After voters in the June 23, 2026 primary ousted all three sitting county commissioners who had opposed a pause on data center development, Amazon formally withdrew its Calvert Technology Center application, with Calvert County government announcing the withdrawal on August 4, 2026.

An undisclosed applicant sought to rezone 20 acres of exclusive farm use land near Christmas Valley in Lake County for a cryptocurrency mining data center, arguing the farm zoning had been applied in error. Nearly two dozen Christmas Valley residents and farmers turned out to a January 2025 county hearing in Lakeview to oppose the project, citing groundwater and power use, noise, and harm to the area's dark night skies, and Central Oregon LandWatch argued industrial zoned land was available elsewhere. Only three of seven Lake County Planning Commissioners voted in favor, and the applicant withdrew the proposal.

Vancouver based developer Jason Bak, through a company called Green Data, pitched a data center and a roughly 10,000 acre solar array near Socorro in potential partnership with New Mexico Tech, proposing to use atmospheric water generation instead of local aquifer water for cooling. New Mexico Tech's president announced the project was halted, in large part because the university does not own enough contiguous land to host it. After public opposition, the Socorro County Board of Commissioners unanimously adopted a yearlong moratorium on new data center development on unincorporated county land and began forming an advisory committee to study future rules. A related pitch by the same company at Spaceport America was separately rejected by the New Mexico land commissioner.

Minneapolis based developer Oppidan explored a roughly 4 million square foot data center campus in North Mankato, more than twice the floor area of the Minnesota Vikings stadium, and had the city sign a non disclosure agreement about the project's details. Oppidan withdrew before filing a formal application, citing concerns that permitting backup diesel generators would take too long. The city council has since approved a one year moratorium on new data center applications while it studies the issue further.

Beale Infrastructure proposed Project Atlas, an air cooled data center on about 270 acres between Highways 72 and 51B south of Coweta in Wagoner County, to be served by Wagoner County Rural Water District number five. Coweta's Planning Commission voted 4 to 1 in January 2026 to recommend denial of the rezoning after residents raised concerns about noise, water demand, power, proximity to homes, and non disclosure agreements the developer sought from officials. Beale withdrew the project entirely on March 30, 2026, following weeks of public opposition including a petition with about 700 signatures.

A developer sought to rezone the 186 acre Plum Farms property at Higgins Road and Route 59 in Hoffman Estates to manufacturing use for a possible data center. The site sits on the edge of the village, bordering South Barrington and Barrington Hills, and drew weeks of organized neighbor opposition. The developer withdrew its rezoning request on July 1, 2026 after state lawmakers failed to pass data center regulation and Governor Pritzker paused state incentives.

CloudCenters LLC proposed a 256,000 square foot, 50 megawatt data center on the long vacant former Lockformer Company site on Ogden Avenue in Lisle, a property still associated locally with a past groundwater contamination lawsuit. A January 2026 public hearing was postponed after more than 300 residents showed up, exceeding room capacity, and the developer later withdrew the application amid the continued backlash.

Western Hospitality Partners sought to buy 321 acres of the Lutticken Property, a planned 1,000 acre mixed use development between Highway 98 and Sheridan Road in Pekin, for a data center reported at over 1 billion dollars. After Mayor Mary Burress said in March 2026 the city would not move forward, citing resident concerns about noise and electricity prices, the developer formally terminated the agreement on May 5, 2026 and asked for its deposit back. An opposition Facebook group, Tazewell County Data Center Opposition, grew past 6,200 members.

Air Products proposed converting its former 194 acre corporate headquarters property in Upper Macungie Township into a 2.6 million square foot, three building data center campus. The township's zoning hearing board rejected the request, and Air Products chose not to appeal, letting the deadline pass in August 2026. The company had also previously sought approval to build warehouses on the same property.

Developers Jim Marzolino and Alpesh Patel had proposed a four building, 209 acre data center campus in Blakely borough, with each building around 150,000 square feet. After the borough rejected a request for an extra public meeting and more than 1,800 residents signed a petition against the project, the developers withdrew their proposal and a scheduled zoning hearing was canceled.

A landowning family applied to rezone about 1,000 acres along Grand River Avenue in Howell Township for what would have been one of Michigan's largest data centers, with Meta widely rumored but never officially confirmed as the end user. After the township's planning commission recommended denial in September 2025 and residents packed public meetings over water, power, and transparency concerns, the family withdrew its rezoning request in December 2025. Howell Township has since adopted a moratorium on new data center applications.

Real estate firm Franklin Partners looked at building a large data center on about 265 acres near South 26th Street and East N Avenue in Pavilion Township, southeast of Kalamazoo. CMS Energy, the parent of Consumers Energy, had announced plans to supply up to a gigawatt of power for a facility there, but after residents packed public meetings over water and electricity concerns, the company paused and then withdrew its plans in late October 2025. Local watchdogs say the same land could still attract a new developer.

Prologis proposed a 312 acre data center and technical campus on the south side of 32 Mile Road, between M-53 and Powell Road, in Washington Township, Macomb County. After months of resident pushback at packed zoning meetings, Prologis withdrew its application on May 19, 2026, saying it would wait for the township to finish writing data center rules first. The township board then passed a six month moratorium on new data center applications.

A company called Rocklocker proposed a data center on about 1,440 acres of state owned land near Island Lake and South River roads in Kalkaska County, promising more than 40 million dollars a year in tax revenue. The Department of Natural Resources denied the company's request to buy the land in July 2025, citing missing paperwork and conservation concerns, and Rocklocker withdrew its proposal in November 2025 after strong local opposition and anonymous threats against its founder. No new proposal has been filed for the site.

Vintage Partners scrapped plans for a data center on a 63-acre site in Phoenix's Laveen Village in March 2026, switching instead to a mixed-use development with commercial, retail, restaurant and multifamily residential space after running into local regulatory hurdles and power availability limits, reportedly at the city of Phoenix's request.

Pegasus Group Holdings proposed a 3 billion dollar, 340 megawatt solar-powered data center called The Hive on 717 acres south of Kingman along Interstate 40, near the Griffith Energy Facility, in 2019, but withdrew the plans in 2021. Mohave County has since tightened its rules, now requiring any future data center proposal to supply its own power and water rather than drawing on county infrastructure, and there is currently no large-scale data center operating in the county.

Surge Development, LLC had proposed the Hancock County MegaSite, a data center rezoning of more than 700 acres of farmland on Mt. Comfort Road next to Tuttle Orchards, east of Indianapolis Regional Airport. After resident meetings raising water, traffic and neighborhood concerns, the developer withdrew its rezoning application, putting the project on hold.

Diode Ventures withdrew a proposed data center near Cedar Creek Lake in Henderson County in July 2026 after concluding the project did not meet Governor Abbott's standards or community expectations. The site sat within a subdivision surrounded by hundreds of homes, and residents worried it would draw down Cedar Creek Lake, a water supply for the Fort Worth area.

Beacon Partners withdrew its proposal for a data center on Jones Sausage Road in southeast Raleigh ahead of a scheduled public hearing, after residents and council members raised concerns about water, power and transparency.

Rushmark Properties withdrew its zoning text amendment and conditional use permit applications for a data center on Rockland Road on August 11, 2026, canceling a scheduled August 18 public hearing. The county Planning Commission had already recommended denial after more than a hundred residents spoke in opposition.

A roughly 19 billion dollar AI data center proposal for the Kingsboro megasite was withdrawn in July 2026 after the developer said investors wanted friendlier communities. County commissioners then approved a two year moratorium on new data center development through August 2028.

Atlas Development, LLC filed initial paperwork in January 2026 for a 350 acre, up to 12 building data center called Project Bus on rural land near Temple in northern Carroll County, valued at up to 11 billion dollars at full buildout. Following community opposition and a Carroll County Board of Commissioners statement against annexing the county land into Temple, the developer withdrew the proposal on August 4, 2026, though it retains the option to resubmit with changes or pursue another site in the region.

Maryland based developer Stonebridge quietly pursued a 10 billion dollar AI data center in the town of Pacific, about 35 miles north of Madison, that would have been among Wisconsin's largest. Town officials met with the developer starting in fall 2025, but after the town chair insisted the process be aired publicly rather than handled through private meetings, the developer stopped responding. By August 2026, Wisconsin Watch reported the project had gone silent for months and appeared to be dead.

A data center proposed on a vacant lot in New Orleans East, steps from homes in a historically Black and Vietnamese American community. The city council passed a one year moratorium and the developer withdrew within hours of the vote in January 2026; planning staff have since recommended a permanent ban on hyperscale data centers.

This was the largest data center complex ever proposed in Virginia, 2,100 acres and up to 23 million square feet next to Manassas National Battlefield Park. Courts voided the 2023 rezoning over a public notice violation, and developer QTS withdrew its final appeal on July 2, 2026, ending the project.

An undisclosed developer, working through Grant County's economic development office and drawn by the nearby Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line, scouted about 500 acres in the town of Cassville for a data center pitched at 1 to 2 billion dollars in investment and 50 permanent jobs. After months of public meetings and a rally that drew hundreds of opponents, the developers stopped responding to the county in mid April 2026, and the project was considered dead by late May 2026. Cassville voters separately authorized the town board to ban data centers through zoning for up to two years.

Stream Data Centers abandoned its proposed 400 megawatt data center near Marion in May 2026, citing inability to secure electricity capacity in a timely, cost effective way, after residents raised concerns about groundwater, rates, noise and county officials' nondisclosure agreements.

Crow Holdings Development and CHI Acquisitions proposed a single two story, 300,000 square foot data center building with a substation on a 37.4 acre site along Highway 85 North near the Fayette Pavilion shopping center in Fayetteville. The Planning and Zoning Commission denied the site plan on January 27, 2026, and after filing an appeal, the developers withdrew it on March 18, 2026, the day before the scheduled City Council hearing, ending the project. Fayetteville has since banned new data centers citywide.

Natelli Investments proposed a 250 megawatt campus on former farmland in the New Hill community near Apex. After months of opposition and no town decision, Natelli withdrew in March 2026, leaving open a possible return if zoning changes.

TigerDC announced a 3 billion dollar AI data center at the Tyger River Industrial Park in January 2026, then withdrew it a month later after heavy resident opposition and the county council moving to deny tax incentives.

QTS proposed a five building, roughly 12 billion dollar data center campus that would have annexed about 1,600 acres from the Town of Vienna into the Village of DeForest, near County Road V and Patton Road. After a state Department of Administration report found the annexation was not in the public interest, and amid strong community opposition, QTS withdrew the project on January 28, 2026, though the company said it may look at other Wisconsin sites.

Project Turbo was a proposed 1.2 billion dollar, 900,000 square foot data center campus on 119 acres off O'Kelly Road in southeast Hall County near Gainesville. After months of resident opposition over water use (an estimated 225,000 gallons per day) and traffic, the developer withdrew the special use application in December 2025 rather than face a commission vote. Hall County has since been drafting a data center ordinance as its prior moratorium expired in summer 2026, but no new specific project has been reported there as of this writing.

Microsoft sought to rezone 244 acres near County Line Road and Highway 32 in Caledonia, across from the We Energies Oak Creek power plant, for what would have been a third Racine County data center under the code name Project Nova. More than 2,000 residents signed a petition against it, and Microsoft withdrew the proposal on October 8, 2025, saying it would look for another site in the area.

Atlas Development, the same firm behind the Coosa and Plainville Road projects, bought about 100 acres at the former Battey Business Complex property in Rome for 5.7 million dollars in August 2025 with a data center in mind, but local reporting later indicated the proposed data center at this particular site was terminated. It is included here for completeness since homeowners nearby may have heard about it, but it does not appear to be an active project.

A proposed $4.5 billion, six building data center campus (about 379,000 square feet and roughly 72 megawatts per building) on 630 acres off Barnsley Gardens Road near the Barnsley Resort, close to Adairsville. Barnsley Resort's owners and more than 2,000 petition signers opposed the project, and the Bartow County Planning Commission voted 6-1 to recommend denial in April 2025. Applicant Atlas Development withdrew the rezoning application on May 13, 2025 rather than face a denial vote, and under county rules cannot resubmit an identical application for six months.

The Stafford Board of Supervisors voted 4-3 on July 7, 2026 to defer applicant Joseph Metts' three-building, 975,000 square foot data center and substation proposal on 99.3 acres off Eskimo Hill Road after a cemetery with Seddon family headstones and suspected graves of enslaved people was found on the property. The deferral was extended to October 31, 2026 to allow an archaeological investigation to be completed and reported to the Historical Commission, Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors. As of mid-October 2026, no new public hearing date beyond that October 31 deadline has been reported.

PathOne Data Centers and Sunstone Investments want to build a roughly 40,000 square foot, 10 to 15 megawatt data center on the old Bison Plant site about two miles southwest of Hull, under a one year moratorium that has been in effect in unincorporated Sioux County since June 16, 2026. The Sioux County Board of Supervisors approved a first reading on September 29, 2026 of an ordinance that would cap new data centers at 25 megawatts, require closed loop cooling, and bar the use of private wells, with a second reading set for October 13 and a possible third and final reading on October 27, 2026. PathOne has said it would not seek a local property tax abatement and held a public meeting in Hull on August 25, 2026 even though the moratorium remained in effect.

Developer Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing wants to build what it calls California's largest data center, close to 1 million square feet, on farmland next to homes in the city of Imperial. The company sued Imperial County over its moratorium, and on October 6, 2026 an Imperial County Superior Court judge ordered the county to repeal its two prior moratorium ordinances for failing to show data centers posed a current and immediate threat to public health or safety; the county immediately adopted a new 45-day moratorium the same day. The developer's separate lawsuit against the Imperial Irrigation District over Colorado River water rights, and the city of Imperial's challenge to the project's environmental review, both remain pending.

TeraWulf has secured an 80 year ground lease on about 183 acres at the shuttered, coal fired Cayuga power plant on Cayuga Lake in Lansing, aiming to build up to 400 megawatts of AI and high performance computing capacity, with an initial 138 megawatts targeted for 2026. More than 20,000 people signed a petition urging the Lansing Town Board to reject the plan, and the board voted 7 to 1 on July 14, 2026 for a 182 day moratorium on new data center development, running through January 25, 2027, on top of New York's separate statewide permitting freeze. On September 29, 2026 the Lansing Town Board moved to explore a full ban on data centers rather than letting the temporary moratorium simply expire, and TeraWulf chief executive Paul Prager responded with an October 2, 2026 letter saying the company was open to legal action if the town does not let the project proceed.

Miami based Revitalization Unlimited wants to demolish the historic, 1900 built Western Newspaper Union building at 934 Central Street in downtown Kansas City's Quality Hill area and replace it with a 384 foot, 20 story data center. The Kansas City Plan Commission voted unanimously on August 5, 2026 to recommend the City Council deny the proposal, after nearly three hours of testimony and 475 letters of opposition with none in support, and Mayor Quinton Lucas has said he does not expect the council to reverse that recommendation. As of late September 2026 the council had pushed back its own vote on the project without a new date reported.

DC BLOX closed on about 24 acres at 648 and 650 Grassmere Park Drive near the Nashville Zoo in July 2026 for roughly 23 million dollars, planning two data center buildings totaling about 50 megawatts and 69,220 square feet plus a substation. Nashville's Metro Council passed a data center moratorium that blocked the project's permits, and a federal judge dismissed DC BLOX's lawsuit challenging the moratorium on October 7, 2026 while giving the company 21 days to file an amended complaint.

Red Wolf DCD Properties wants to build a 12.6 billion dollar data center, described as part of the internet's backbone, on a 550 acre business park bisected by Parallel Parkway in Wyandotte County, with six buildings totaling 1.8 million square feet. The Unified Government's planning commission recommended the rezoning 4 to 2 in May 2025, and officials said the project could become the county's largest source of property tax revenue. A resident protest petition and a lawsuit from an environmental group have since delayed final approval.

Lerner Enterprises, through its affiliate Brightseat Associates LLC, won approval from the Prince George's County planning board in March 2024 and final approvals in October 2024 for a 5 billion dollar, five building data center campus called Brightseat Tech Park at the former Landover Mall site, spanning 4.1 million square feet on 87 acres with up to 820 megawatts of power. Facing sustained protests from residents over water, energy, and environmental justice concerns in a majority Black county, County Executive Aisha Braveboy issued an executive order in September 2025 pausing new data center development and creating a task force to study the industry. Because Lerner's permits were issued before that pause took effect, the project could move forward if the executive order lapses; the county council separately voted in 2026 to extend and then reconsider the broader moratorium and to reinstate detailed site plan review for future data center projects.

Google announced its first Minnesota data center, code named Project Skyway, on a 480 acre site in Pine Island, about 70 miles southeast of Minneapolis, alongside a deal to bring 1,900 megawatts of new wind, solar, and battery power to Xcel Energy's grid. The company says the facility will use air cooling and no water for cooling. The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy sued developer Ryan Companies and the city, arguing the project's environmental review was inadequate, and a judge ordered construction temporarily halted in May 2026 while the lawsuit is heard.

Fundamental Data has proposed a data center and off grid natural gas power plant, called the Ridgeline Facility, on land it describes as part of a complex of up to 10,000 acres between Tucker and Grant counties, about a mile from the tourist towns of Thomas and Davis. The company has applied for a state air permit, and its project is the type meant to use West Virginia's 2025 House Bill 2014 certified microgrid and data center law, which lets certified projects bypass most local zoning control. In mid-2026 the state Department of Commerce notified Fundamental Data it was in violation of HB 2014 for not filing its high impact data center certification application, and the state Department of Environmental Protection has separately questioned the company's control of the proposed site.

IREN, an Australia based company, is proposing Project Emerald, a roughly 1.2 to 1.6 gigawatt AI data center on about 2,000 acres along US Highway 69 just south of Kiowa in Pittsburg County, described as a 50 billion dollar development. A county review committee recommended tax increment finance incentives, but the Pittsburg County Board of Commissioners voted in 2026 to table the incentive district and send it back for renegotiation after residents packed a public hearing to challenge its terms. Public Service Company of Oklahoma has said the area's power demand already exceeds current production.

Florida based Buckley Bros Holdings is seeking to convert a vacant 200,000 square foot former carpet mill building, later used as a cannabis cultivation site, into an 8 to 10 megawatt AI data center in Pawhuska, Osage County. Osage Nation Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear said the nation was not consulted on the proposal. Pawhuska's Public Works Authority voted 3 to 2 in 2026 to impose a full moratorium on new data centers through December 31, 2026, pausing the project.

Atlanta based Beltline Energy has proposed a roughly 400 acre data center near the OG&E Red Bud power plant in Luther, one of several sites the company is pursuing along the same transmission corridor as related proposals in Piedmont and Yukon. Beltline asked Luther officials to sign a non disclosure agreement about the project, which the town board did not approve, and the town later adopted a moratorium on new data centers through the end of 2026, effectively pausing the proposal.

DataBank wants to add a roughly 78,000 square foot second phase to its Orangeburg hyperscale data center campus, on the shore of Lake Tappan, a reservoir that supplies drinking water to parts of the lower Hudson Valley and North Jersey. The Orangetown Planning Board voted unanimously to require a full environmental impact statement before it will consider the expansion, effectively delaying the project indefinitely. Orangetown separately passed a townwide data center moratorium in 2026 but exempted this DataBank campus because it was already in the approval pipeline; residents have raised concerns about reservoir contamination, noise, air pollution, and wetland damage.

Wildflower, through its WF Industrial subsidiary, wants to convert three empty warehouses on a 71 acre property near the Long Island Expressway's north service road in Yaphank into a 1 billion dollar, 549,000 square foot, 176 megawatt data center called the Brookhaven Digital Infrastructure Facility. The project is now on hold under two separate moratoriums, an 18 month freeze the Brookhaven Town Board adopted running through January 2028 and New York Governor Kathy Hochul's July 14, 2026 statewide executive order freezing permits for data centers of 50 megawatts or more. The developer argues the existing warehouse shell would let it build with minimal added impact, but residents near the site, about 1,000 feet from a neighborhood, have raised concerns about electricity, water, and noise.

Ranalli Super DC, LLC, a company tied to Onondaga County developer James Ranalli, applied to the New York Independent System Operator in May 2025 to connect a proposed 300 megawatt data center near Hencle Boulevard and Oswego Road in the town of Lysander to the grid, on 120 acres that were later listed for sale at 60 million dollars. A resident group called Citizens Against Lysander Data Center pushed the town board to act, and Lysander adopted a temporary moratorium on new data center projects while it and Onondaga County, which committed 500,000 dollars to study AI data centers countywide, work out zoning and review rules.

Developers Jon Williams and John Yensan, who bought the former Tonawanda Coke property for a nominal 1 dollar at auction in 2019 and renamed it the Riverview Innovation and Technology Campus, are proposing a 300 megawatt, roughly 495,000 square foot AI data center on 140 acres of the 100 year old former coke plant site. The project could involve up to 2 billion dollars in investment, with potential groundbreaking in late 2026 and completion by the end of 2027, but the town supervisor said in June 2026 that the proposal is on hold while a public hearing and further planning work continue.

Boulder City's Planning Commission voted 6-1 in May 2026 to reject a data center proposal from Townsite Solar 2, LLC near Interstate 11 and US Highway 95, after which the developer pursued the same use on an adjacent 80-acre federally owned parcel where the Bureau of Land Management approved a right-of-way amendment. Boulder City and the Center for Biological Diversity appealed, and on September 1, 2026 the Interior Board of Land Appeals granted a stay pausing construction, finding the appeal likely to succeed because BLM reused an earlier solar-farm environmental review without adequately showing the data center project and its impacts were substantially the same; BLM must respond by September 21, 2026. Boulder City voters will also decide a November 2026 ballot question on whether data centers should be an allowed use in the separate, larger Eldorado Valley Transfer Area.

Hut 8 Corp proposed a 5 billion dollar, 500 megawatt data center on 200 acres of farmland in Laenna Township near Latham. After the Logan County Board first passed a 60 day moratorium in February 2026, it ultimately approved a full 12 month moratorium on data center projects by a 6 to 4 vote on May 19, 2026. Hut 8 warned the pause could kill the project because its agreement with Ameren Illinois would expire, and the company has not said whether the proposal is still active.

Green Fig's 1.5 million square foot data center on Swedesford Road, on part of the old Foote Mineral Company Superfund site, was approved in 2024 after the developer scrapped a larger 1.7 million square foot version amid heavy public opposition. The township has since issued more than one stop work order, most recently in August 2026, after the developer could not show that the local water utility, Aqua, had committed enough water for the project. Neighbors have also raised concerns about whether the old industrial contamination on the site has been fully cleaned up.

A developer called 1778 Rich Pike LLC wants to build a data center campus, known locally as Project Gold, split across properties in Clifton and Covington townships along Route 380. Clifton Township supervisors twice tried to settle a zoning dispute with the developer, but a Lackawanna County judge voided the township's data center zoning ordinance in August 2026, leaving the project's legal footing unsettled while the township rewrites its rules. As part of talks the developer agreed to drop earlier plans for an on site small nuclear reactor or gas fired power plant.

A nearly 2,000 acre data center proposal near Highway 377 outside Granbury, first pitched to Hood County commissioners in July 2025 under the vague economic development code name Project Patriot with promises of 60 high wage jobs, is now the subject of a resident lawsuit against the City of Granbury alleging officials withheld details from the public. It is one of eight data center proposals reported across Hood County, where officials say state law leaves them little power to block the projects.

A 130 million dollar data center and education project at Gateway Research Park has stalled; its site plan expired in 2025 and the city says there is no sign the developer is moving forward. Greensboro's new six month data center moratorium adds further uncertainty.

A proposed 750 megawatt data center in Chatham County whose developer is suing the county over its February 2026 data center moratorium. Court filings say Enbridge would supply gas via a proposed 28 mile pipeline, which Enbridge says is not finalized.

Digital Realty, which operates four data centers in uptown Charlotte, is funding a new substation near the airport for an expansion described as one of North Carolina's largest data centers. The project falls within Charlotte's 150 day data center moratorium, which runs through November 5, 2026.

A New Jersey based developer proposed a 230 acre data center in northwest Jackson. Community opposition led the city council to pass the state's first data center moratorium on July 14, 2026, pausing new development for six months while the city works out where data centers could go.

The Warrenton Town Council approved a 220,000 square foot Amazon data center in February 2023 at Blackwell Road and Lee Highway, a roughly 550 million dollar project. A citizen lawsuit filed by Citizens for Fauquier County has stalled construction for more than three years while it works through the courts.

Balloonist LLC, fronting an unnamed tech company, proposed a 1.6 billion dollar data center on farmland annexed into Menomonie north of Interstate 94. The city council approved the annexation and rezoning in 2025, then reversed course after strong opposition, putting the project on indefinite hold and adopting a stricter I-4 Data Center Industrial District zoning classification in January 2026 with new limits on water use, building height and noise. Balloonist could still apply to rezone under the new district if it chooses to.

Remington Technology Park was rezoned for up to six data centers on 234 acres back in 2018, but construction has been delayed for years by lack of available power. In 2026 the county approved an on-site natural gas fuel cell plant to help power the site while it waits on grid capacity.

A rescaled 78-acre Iron Horse data center rezoning off East Patrick Henry Road was deferred by its own developers just before a June 18, 2026 Planning Commission hearing. A similar, larger version of the project was rejected by Hanover supervisors in 2024.

Atlanta based Grind Capital Group proposed a data center on Irwin Bridge Road in Conyers, Rockdale County, about half a mile from the DC BLOX site, describing it as a multi billion dollar investment. As of an April 2026 report, the application had been voluntarily deferred and was awaiting review under the county's new unified development ordinance amid a data center moratorium, with mixed community reaction at a scheduled May 12 meeting.

A landowner filed a rezoning request from agricultural to industrial for about 500 acres straddling the Peach and Crawford county line near Byron, with a company called Beltline Energy in talks to build a data center. The property has become the subject of a jurisdictional dispute between the City of Byron and Crawford County, now headed to arbitration, and Byron has a moratorium on new data centers in effect through September 15, 2026. No developer or building plans have been made public, and neither government has officially confirmed details.