State and local policy

State and local policy tracker

Sourced state and local data-center policy actions. It is not a list of which states are allowed, and it is not a 50-state audit.

Recorded actions: 22
States with a recorded action: 12
Checked through: 22 September 2026

Coverage boundary.

This tracker contains policy actions whose primary official sources were opened. It is not a 50-state audit and it does not clear any state. A state with no row has not been found free of restrictions, incentives, or local actions. Policy actions are not facility, project, claim, update, public-post, or directory counts. No state is described as open.

State and local policy tracker
State	Recorded actions	Latest record
Arizona	3	Pause on new data-center tax-relief applications
Georgia	1	High-technology data center equipment exemption
Indiana	1	Data center sales-and-use tax exemption
Kentucky	1	Data center equipment sales-tax exemption
Minnesota	1	Qualified data center sales-tax exemption
Nevada	1	Partial tax abatement for a data center
New York	1	DEC hold on large data-center permits
Ohio	2	Pause on new data-center exemption requests
Oregon	2	PGE large-load tariff compliance approval
Texas	6	TCEQ data-center permit pause
Virginia	1	Data center retail sales-tax exemption
Washington	2	Rural-county data center sales-tax exemption

Arizona: 3 recorded actions

Arizona policy actions
State	Locality	Jurisdiction	Action	Status	Stage	Effective	Expiration	Record
Arizona	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Enacted legislation or regulation	In effect	Incentive	1 July 2026	30 June 2029	Pause on new data-center tax-relief applications Primary source
Arizona Chandler only (local rule)	Chandler	Local	Permanent restriction or prohibition	In effect	More than one stage	No single effective day is stated	None scheduled	Chandler: data centers limited to planned-area approval Primary source
Arizona	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Incentive or explicitly supportive policy	In effect	Incentive	No single effective day is stated	None scheduled	Computer data center tax relief Primary source

Georgia: 1 recorded action

Georgia policy actions
State	Locality	Jurisdiction	Action	Status	Stage	Effective	Expiration	Record
Georgia	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Incentive or explicitly supportive policy	In effect	Incentive	No single effective day is stated	None scheduled	High-technology data center equipment exemption Primary source

Indiana: 1 recorded action

Indiana policy actions
State	Locality	Jurisdiction	Action	Status	Stage	Effective	Expiration	Record
Indiana	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Incentive or explicitly supportive policy	In effect	Incentive	No single effective day is stated	None scheduled	Data center sales-and-use tax exemption Primary source

Kentucky: 1 recorded action

Kentucky policy actions
State	Locality	Jurisdiction	Action	Status	Stage	Effective	Expiration	Record
Kentucky	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Incentive or explicitly supportive policy	In effect	Incentive	15 July 2024	None scheduled	Data center equipment sales-tax exemption Primary source

Minnesota: 1 recorded action

Minnesota policy actions
State	Locality	Jurisdiction	Action	Status	Stage	Effective	Expiration	Record
Minnesota	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Incentive or explicitly supportive policy	In effect	Incentive	No single effective day is stated	None scheduled	Qualified data center sales-tax exemption Primary source

Nevada: 1 recorded action

Nevada policy actions
State	Locality	Jurisdiction	Action	Status	Stage	Effective	Expiration	Record
Nevada	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Incentive or explicitly supportive policy	In effect	Incentive	No single effective day is stated	31 December 2056	Partial tax abatement for a data center Primary source

New York: 1 recorded action

New York policy actions
State	Locality	Jurisdiction	Action	Status	Stage	Effective	Expiration	Record
New York	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Statewide permit or approval pause	In effect	Permitting	14 July 2026	None scheduled	DEC hold on large data-center permits Primary source

Ohio: 2 recorded actions

Ohio policy actions
State	Locality	Jurisdiction	Action	Status	Stage	Effective	Expiration	Record
Ohio	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Statewide permit or approval pause	In effect	Incentive	27 May 2026	None scheduled	Pause on new data-center exemption requests Primary source · Archived copy (1 September 2026)
Ohio	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Incentive or explicitly supportive policy	In effect	Incentive	No single effective day is stated	None scheduled	Data center equipment sales-tax exemption Primary source

Oregon: 2 recorded actions

Oregon policy actions
State	Locality	Jurisdiction	Action	Status	Stage	Effective	Expiration	Record
Oregon	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Enacted legislation or regulation	In effect	Interconnection	No single effective day is stated	None scheduled	PGE large-load tariff compliance approval Primary source
Oregon	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Enacted legislation or regulation	In effect	More than one stage	7 May 2026	None scheduled	PGE data-center cost-allocation order Primary source

Texas: 6 recorded actions

Texas policy actions
State	Locality	Jurisdiction	Action	Status	Stage	Effective	Expiration	Record
Texas	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Statewide permit or approval pause	In effect	Permitting	21 September 2026	None scheduled	TCEQ data-center permit pause Primary source
Texas	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Reporting or resource-use requirement	In effect	Reporting	14 September 2026	None scheduled	Water-use reporting enforcement directive Primary source
Texas	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Statewide permit or approval pause	In effect	Interconnection	3 August 2026	None scheduled	ERCOT approval pause pending audit Primary source
Texas	Statewide or grid-wide	Regional grid	Grid-interconnection pause	In effect	Interconnection	3 August 2026	None scheduled	ERCOT large-load interconnection pause Primary source
Texas	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Enacted legislation or regulation	In effect	Interconnection	20 June 2025	None scheduled	Large-load interconnection standards Primary source
Texas	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Incentive or explicitly supportive policy	In effect	Incentive	No single effective day is stated	None scheduled	Data center sales-tax exemption Primary source

Virginia: 1 recorded action

Virginia policy actions
State	Locality	Jurisdiction	Action	Status	Stage	Effective	Expiration	Record
Virginia	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Incentive or explicitly supportive policy	In effect	Incentive	1 July 2010	None scheduled	Data center retail sales-tax exemption Primary source

Washington: 2 recorded actions

Washington policy actions
State	Locality	Jurisdiction	Action	Status	Stage	Effective	Expiration	Record
Washington	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Incentive or explicitly supportive policy	In effect	Incentive	No single effective day is stated	1 July 2048	Rural-county data center sales-tax exemption Primary source
Washington	Statewide or grid-wide	State	Incentive or explicitly supportive policy	In effect	Incentive	No single effective day is stated	1 July 2038	Large-county data center sales-tax exemption Primary source

Texas: Temporary approval and permit pauses pending reviews—not a permanent ban on existing facilities.

How the Texas actions fit together

These Texas records are related instruments. None is recorded as superseding another. Together, the approval and permit directives are a temporary approval and permit pause pending an audit. This is not a permanent ban on existing facilities. The 3 August 2026 letter tells the Public Utility Commission and ERCOT to audit data centers advancing through ERCOT interconnection before any additional data centers are approved to move forward. It states no end date. ERCOT's 3 August 2026 market notice postponed Batch Zero classification of large loads past 7 August 2026. ERCOT's 20 August 2026 presentation says energization approvals are paused for data centers and virtual-currency mining facilities of 75 MW or greater until Batch Zero eligibility verification is complete. The 14 September 2026 board update says that pause continues until the verification and audit and the community-impact review are complete. Those materials give 10 December 2026 as a report-filing goal, not as a legal expiration. That energization pause does not, on ERCOT's description, apply to non-data-center large loads or to medium loads. The 21 September 2026 letter tells TCEQ to halt permits sought by data centers until ERCOT completes its review, and it says no other state agency should move regulatory approvals forward until the requested information is acquired. 19 October 2026 is a compliance-update date, not an expiration. The same letter says the governor will seek legislation to eliminate data-center financial incentives. That legislation is not recorded as enacted. The Comptroller was still describing the sales-tax exemption program on 22 September 2026.

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