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Most coverage tracks what is being built. This page tracks the other outcome: proposals withdrawn by the developer or denied by a local government, usually after residents organized. Every entry links its sources; cite freely with a link.
Counts cover the projects we track (planning filings researched in 18 states, operating facilities nationwide), so the real national number is higher. Withdrawn is not always the end: land that was assembled once tends to come back under a new name, which is what the address alert is for.
A local government voted no or a referendum overturned an approval.
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.
NorthPoint Development proposed a 15 building data center campus in Hazle Township known as Project Hazelnut. Township supervisors denied the proposal in November 2025, and the developer's appeal of that denial was still working through the courts as of the most recent reporting. It is one of several competing data center proposals across Luzerne County.
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.
The developer pulled the application, most often after opposition, a moratorium, or a lost incentive.
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.
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 is drafting an overlay district critics say may accommodate a future project on the same land.
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.
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. Voters will still decide a 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.
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.
Paused by the developer, a regulator or a court; neither dead nor moving.
PathOne Data Centers and Sunstone Investments want to build a roughly 40,000 square foot, 10 megawatt data center on the old Bison Plant site about two miles southwest of Hull, with room to grow toward 25 megawatts. Sioux County put a one year moratorium on new data centers in place, and developers told the county an end user had already been lined up before that happened. PathOne held a public meeting in Hull on August 25, 2026 even though the moratorium was still in effect.
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.
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 a petition against it drew more than 6,000 signatures. The developer withdrew its city application in July but pursued the same use on an adjacent 80-acre federally owned parcel, where the Bureau of Land Management approved a right-of-way amendment for data center use. Boulder City voted to oppose the BLM decision and filed a notice of appeal before July 27, 2026, so the project remains contested pending that appeal.
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.
The Stafford Board of Supervisors voted 4-3 on July 7, 2026 to defer a three-building data center and substation proposal after a family cemetery with headstones was found on the property. The deferral runs to October 31, 2026 to allow an archaeological investigation.
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.
Amazon Web Services planned a large campus of up to 19 buildings and 7.5 million square feet on the former Birchwood Power Plant site. The project is stalled by a legal dispute after a newly elected Board of Supervisors sought to renegotiate the original performance agreement, now pending in circuit court.
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.