Data Center Record.
Timeline / 2026

March 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.

April 2026 · February 2026

18 milestones in March 2026

1 denial · 7 moratoriums adopted · 2 moratoriums · 1 expansion · 7 laws signed

Newest: , law signed, H.B. 4084: Relating to economic development; and prescribing an effective date..

Place
Federal 1
Kind

Tuesday, March 31 1

  1. Law signed

    H.B. 4084: Relating to economic development; and prescribing an effective date., Oregon

    H.B. 4084 was signed.

    olis.oregonlegislature.gov, primary source

Monday, March 30 3

  1. Law signed

    SB135: Protect residents from increased utility costs and utility shortages caused by data centers and..., South Dakota

    S.B. 135 was signed.

    sdlegislature.gov, primary source

  2. Law signed

    HB1038: Allow the Public Utilities Commission to assess actual costs to data centers that are customers of..., South Dakota

    H.B. 1038 was signed.

    sdlegislature.gov, primary source

  3. Law signed

    HB 4983: Authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate a legislative rule relating to certification of..., West Virginia

    H.B. 4983 was signed.

    wvlegislature.gov, primary source

Monday, March 23 1

  1. Law signed

    H.B. 76: Data Center Water Transparency Amendments, Utah

    H.B. 76 was signed.

    le.utah.gov, primary source

Friday, March 20 1

  1. Law signed

    S.B. 103: Allow alternative rate plans for certain natural gas companies, Ohio

    S.B. 103 was signed.

    legislature.ohio.gov, primary source

Thursday, March 12 1

  1. Law signed

    H.B. 1210: Department of local government finance., Indiana

    H.B. 1210 was signed.

    iga.in.gov, primary source

Wednesday, March 11 1

  1. Expansion

    EdgeCore Mesa North Campus, Mesa, Arizona

    EdgeCore revised plan reduces expansion to two buildings totaling 1,236,960 square feet

    realestatedaily-news.com, local outlet

Monday, March 9 2

  1. Moratorium adopted

    Gibraltar, Michigan

    Gibraltar city council approved data center moratorium on March 9, 2026

    datacenterdynamics.com, trade press

  2. Moratorium adopted

    Gibraltar, Michigan

    City of Gibraltar city council unanimously approved a one year moratorium on data center development on March 9, 2026

    cbsnews.com, national outlet

Wednesday, March 4 1

  1. Moratorium adopted

    Oregon

    Oregon Connects registered as a nonprofit business in Oregon on March 4, 2026, just days before the Oregon Legislature passed a one year pause on the Standard Enterprise Zone tax incentive program for data centers

    opb.org, local outlet (the day its own sentence names; filed under Jul 28, 2026)

March 2026, no day given 7

  1. Moratorium adopted

    Lowell, Massachusetts

    Lowell City Council imposed a 360 day moratorium on data centers in March

    bostonherald.com, local outlet (the month its source gives; it names no day)

  2. Moratorium adopted

    Gibraltar, Michigan

    Gibraltar imposed data center moratorium in March 2026 after Raeden submitted site application for 100 megawatt inference data center

    freep.com, local outlet (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Aug 20, 2026)

  3. Moratorium adopted

    Lowell, Massachusetts

    Lowell enacted state's first moratorium on data center development in March 2026.

    yahoo.com, national outlet (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Sep 8, 2026)

  4. Moratorium

    United States (federal)

    Sanders and Ocasio Cortez introduced moratorium on data center construction in March

    yahoo.com, national outlet (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Sep 15, 2026)

  5. Denial

    Apple Valley, California

    Apple Valley rejected plan for five data centers in March 2026

    bisnow.com, trade press (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Sep 14, 2026)

  6. Moratorium

    Troy, Illinois

    In March 2026, Troy City Council voted to put a six month moratorium on any data center project.

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

  7. Moratorium adopted

    Adair County, Iowa

    Adair County Board of Supervisors established and imposed a temporary moratorium on construction of data centers in the unincorporated areas of Adair County in March 2026

    swiowanewssource.com, local outlet (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Sep 21, 2026)

Bill data from LegiScan, licensed CC BY 4.0. The record chooses the bills, writes each stage in its own words and cites the legislature's own page for every bill. A bill or a law on this page was found through LegiScan; the line cites the legislature's own page.

Also on the record for March 2026

4 acts dated only by the article that reported them, 25 acts of another kind and 17 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, 25 acts of another kind and 17 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.