Data centers in Brunswick County, North Carolina
No data center in Brunswick County is on the record yet; the page exists because the county has a scorecard row. Brunswick County has a scorecard row with no rating yet, and a pause on new data centers is on the record. The latest decision on the record: Southport Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a 15 month moratorium on new data center approvals (Southport), September 11, 2026.
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What Brunswick County has decided
3 bodies, 2 decisions on the recordWhat the county and the cities in it have done about data centers: each body on its own row with its rating, open, case by case, restrictive or closed, never good or bad, and every vote, ordinance, moratorium or agreement behind its toggle, newest first, with its source.
Reported: the source's date; the item names no day of its own. A month with no day: the source names the month and not the day.
- Brunswick Countycounty
No dated act on this row yet.
- Shallottecity
Shallotte adopted unified development ordinance amendment in January limiting data center uses to Heavy Industrial zoning district, January 2026.
1 act on this row
- ordinance
Shallotte adopted unified development ordinance amendment in January limiting data center uses to Heavy Industrial zoning district
- ordinance
- Southportcity
Southport Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a 15 month moratorium on new data center approvals, reported September 11, 2026.
1 act on this row
- moratorium adopted
Southport Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a 15 month moratorium on new data center approvals
- moratorium adopted
What happened
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· Southport
Moratorium adopted: Southport Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a 15 month moratorium on new data center approvals wwaytv3.com local outlet
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· Shallotte
Ordinance: Shallotte adopted unified development ordinance amendment in January limiting data center uses to Heavy Industrial zoning district newsargus.com local outlet
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data centers in Brunswick County, North Carolina", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/nc/brunswick-county, updated September 11, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data center records in Brunswick County, North Carolina", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/nc/brunswick-county. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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- us/nc/brunswick-county
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- county
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