Data centers in Strafford County, New Hampshire
No data center in Strafford County is on the record yet; the page exists because the county has a scorecard row. No county rule about data centers is on the record for Strafford County itself; 1 body inside it has a scorecard row. The latest decision on the record: Rochester amended Section 275-2.2 of general city ordinances to define data center as building, structure, facility, or campus used primarily for housing, operation, management, processing, storage, transmission, or distribution of digital data through computer servers and related IT infrastructure (Rochester), August 18, 2026.
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No data center in Strafford County yet
No data center is on the record in Strafford County yet. The first published record in Strafford County puts it on the map and in the list here.
The cities in Strafford County on the record (1)
| City | Projects | Rules |
|---|---|---|
| Rochester | 0 | 1 |
What Strafford County has decided
1 body, 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.
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- Rochestercity
Rochester amended Section 275-2.2 of general city ordinances to define data center as building, structure, facility, or campus used primarily for housing, operation, management, processing, storage, transmission, or distribution of digital data through computer servers and related IT infrastructure, reported August 18, 2026.
2 acts on this row
- ordinance
Rochester amended Section 275-2.2 of general city ordinances to define data center as building, structure, facility, or campus used primarily for housing, operation, management, processing, storage, transmission, or distribution of digital data through computer servers and related IT infrastructure
- ordinance
Rochester adopted ordinance prohibiting data centers in every zoning district except recycling industrial district, which requires conditional use permit
- ordinance
What happened
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· Rochester
Ordinance: Rochester amended Section 275-2.2 of general city ordinances to define data center as building, structure, facility, or campus used primarily for housing, operation, management, processing, storage, transmission, or distribution of digital data through computer servers and related IT infrastructure wmur.com local outlet
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· Rochester
Ordinance: Rochester adopted ordinance prohibiting data centers in every zoning district except recycling industrial district, which requires conditional use permit wmur.com local outlet
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data centers in Strafford County, New Hampshire", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/nh/strafford-county, updated September 23, 2026.
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Data Center Record, "Data center records in Strafford County, New Hampshire", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/nh/strafford-county. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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