Data Center Policy Map (As of 9-15-2026)

50-state briefing on incentives, restrictions, legislation, and moratoria

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Sources, limitations & attribution

What this is built from. 1,133 records across 50 states, each carrying at least one public source link (2,778 citations in total, of which 972 records cite a government or legislative record directly). Data has been modified throughout: reshaped, normalized, deduplicated and merged.

Every source below appears on at least one record you can see, and the counts are records rather than links.

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State and federal government records — legislature bill pages, session laws, statutes, governors' offices, state agencies and public utility commissions. 972 records. These are the primary evidence; everything else is a route to them.
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) (ncsl.org). 54 records, chiefly incentive programs and moratorium leads. Reliable publisher, but not infallible: its 50-state moratorium table was found to contain several bill numbers that did not correspond to real data center bills, and those records were corrected against primary sources.
LegiScan (legiscan.com). 19 records. A faithful mirror of official legislative records rather than the official record itself.
ERCOT (ercot.com). 5 records, on Texas grid matters. The grid operator itself — not a government body, and under Public Utility Commission of Texas oversight.
Jillian Bommarito and Michael James Bommarito II, Data Center Policy across the 50 States: A Survey of Incentives, Land Use, and Energy Regulation (June 18, 2026), SSRN 6964278 · doi:10.2139/ssrn.6964278 — licensed CC BY 4.0. Modified. 100 records: incentive programme terms, and enacted changes to those programmes. Tables were extracted from the paper, reshaped into this site's schema and merged; cell text is preserved verbatim. A survey of the law rather than the law itself, and a working paper that has not been through peer review.

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These pointed us at records we then cite to the government source. They are credited because we used their work, not because the record rests on their assertion. No record relies solely upon these as its source.

Halt the Harm Network — Stop Bad Data Centers policy tracker, policy data maintained by Tim Bernard (datacenters.halttheharm.net). 567 records — the route for the bulk of the legislation on this site. The source states it makes no warranties about completeness or accuracy.
Telecompetitor (telecompetitor.com). 9 records. Trade press.
MultiState (multistate.us). 7 records. Commercial policy tracker.
Virginia Mercury (virginiamercury.com). 7 records. News outlet.
Hunton Andrews Kurth (hunton.com). 2 records. Law firm client alert, not legal advice to you.

Public sources only. Every item links to a source URL that was publicly accessible when it was recorded.

Please read: this tracker may be inaccurate, incorrect or incomplete, was compiled with substantial use of AI, and has not been independently verified. It is a point-in-time snapshot as of 09-15-2026 of a fast-moving area of policy, not a legal authority, and nothing here is legal advice. Verify anything you intend to rely on against the primary source linked on the record itself.

This tracker is not endorsed by, and implies no endorsement from, any source listed above. Snapshot built 2026-09-15.

© 2026 Beacon Policy Advisors LLC. The compilation — the selection, categorisation, written summaries and arrangement of the records presented here — is the work of Beacon Policy Advisors LLC, all rights reserved. This claim covers our compilation only. Rights in the underlying material remain with their owners: US federal and state government records are generally not subject to copyright, and material reused under CC BY 4.0 remains available under that licence on its own terms, which this notice does not restrict or supersede.