Data Center Record.
Timeline / 2026

February 2026

A milestone is an approval, a denial, a moratorium, a groundbreaking, an opening, an expansion, a cancellation, a lawsuit filed, a court ruling, a law signed or taking effect or a federal roll call, on the day it happened; each line links the record it belongs to, the Daily Record lists every row by the day it entered the record instead, and how a day is read is on the methodology page.

March 2026 · January 2026

9 milestones in February 2026

3 approvals · 1 denial · 1 moratorium adopted · 1 moratorium rejected · 1 moratorium · 1 groundbreaking · 1 lawsuit

Newest: , approval, Project Baccara.

Place
Kind
Developer

Friday, February 13 1

  1. Approval

    Project Baccara, Maricopa County, Arizona

    Maricopa County approved massive AI data center project

    bizjournals.com, local outlet

Wednesday, February 11 1

  1. Approval

    Van Buren Township, Michigan

    Van Buren Township Planning Commission approved preliminary site plan for Project Cannoli Data Center on Wednesday night with conditions

    wemu.org, local outlet

Thursday, February 5 1

  1. Approval

    Alabama

    The Alabama Public Service Commission issued an approval order for Alabama Power to build solar facilities to power Meta data center

    fox10tv.com, local outlet

February 2026, no day given 6

  1. Moratorium rejected

    Hays County, Texas

    In February, Hays County commissioners courtroom was full of residents supporting countywide data center moratorium, though it was not passed due to concerns about lawsuit

    texasstandard.org, local outlet (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Sep 24, 2026)

  2. Lawsuit

    Montgomery County, Missouri

    Preserve Montgomery County, LLC filed a case in February 2026 claiming the county violated Missouri's Sunshine Law in approving a data center.

    abc17news.com, local outlet (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Sep 18, 2026)

  3. Moratorium

    Chatham County, North Carolina

    Superior Court Judge John Morris awarded summary judgment to Eco TIP West, ruling the developer has vested property rights in its data center project despite the county moratorium enacted in February 2026.

    law360.com, local outlet (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Sep 18, 2026)

  4. Moratorium adopted

    Chatham County, North Carolina

    Chatham County enacted a moratorium on new data centers in February 2026.

    law360.com, local outlet (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Sep 18, 2026)

  5. Denial

    Montour County, Pennsylvania

    Citizens of Montour County won a rare victory in February when county leaders denied a rezoning application for a data center

    insideclimatenews.org, national outlet (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Sep 22, 2026)

  6. Groundbreaking

    Meta Indianapolis data center (workforce), Indianapolis, Indiana

    Meta broke ground on a 10 billion dollar data center in Lebanon in February

    wfyi.org, local outlet (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Jun 9, 2026)

Also on the record for February 2026

4 acts dated only by the article that reported them, 10 acts of another kind and 19 lines of background, plans and statements

Not on this page, by the rule at the top: 4 acts dated only by the article that reported them, 10 acts of another kind and 19 lines of background, plans and statements. Each sits on its home record, a project page, a scorecard row on its state, county or city page, a bill page or a laws page, and on each state's own timeline, where every act of the month is listed with the lines under it. The Daily Record lists every row by the day it entered the record.