Georgia Moratoria

Every infrastructure moratorium we have identified in Georgia as of April 2026.

24 instruments — 14 in force, 0 pending, 10 past. Activity level: High.

Detailed entries

Athens-Clarke County

• Type: County
• Status: ⚪ Replaced
• Date enacted: 2025-12-02
• Duration: Initial moratorium through 2026-03-06; extended through 2026-06-05 by Ordinance
• Moratorium ID: ga-athens-clarke-county-2025
• Legal basis: Ordinance 25-12-117 (initial); Ordinance 26-03-19 (extension adopted 2026-03-03 by unanimous vote, "AN ORDINANCE TO IMPOSE, CONTINUE, AND EXTEND A TEMPORARY EMERGENCY MORATORIUM ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW DATA CENTERS"); replacement text amendment to Title IX held over and adopted 2026-04-07
• What prompted it: Existing zoning did not specifically address data centers; concerns about utilities, contamination, water, and land use
• Affected projects: No specific project identified in captured records
• Detailed status: Replaced
• Outcome: New rules allow data centers in heavy industrial zones with tighter review and closed-loop cooling requirements

Brooks County

• Type: County
• Status: 🟢 Active
• Date enacted: 2026-02-02
• Duration: 3 months, expiring 2026-05-02 unless extended
• Moratorium ID: ga-brooks-county-2026
• Legal basis: Resolution 26-R-01
• What prompted it: County wanted fact-finding time on safety concerns and regulation of data center facilities
• Affected projects: No specific project identified in captured records
• Detailed status: Active as of 2026-04-29; expires 2026-05-02 absent extension
• Outcome: Study period ongoing

Bulloch County

• Type: County
• Status: 🟢 Active
• Date enacted: 2026-02-17
• Duration: 90 days, with possible extension after 2026-05-05 public hearing
• Moratorium ID: ga-bulloch-county-2026
• Legal basis: Bulloch County Board of Commissioners resolution adopted 2026-02-17
• What prompted it: Data centers were not listed as permitted or conditional uses; county sought time to decide whether to prohibit or regulate them
• Affected projects: No imminent deal identified by county chair
• Detailed status: Active as of 2026-04-29
• Outcome: County study and potential zoning clarification

Clayton County

• Type: County
• Status: 🟢 Extended
• Date enacted: 2025-09-03
• Duration: 120 days, through 2025-12-31; later extended
• Moratorium ID: ga-clayton-county-2025
• Legal basis: Resolution 2025-193 (per Clayton County news release referenced in GPB 2025-10-22 reporting)
• What prompted it: Health, safety, water-supply, and resident concerns after recent approvals
• Affected projects: Prior approvals included TA Realty Ellenwood (35-acre lot) and Digital Realty Forest Park (97 acres, ~2 million sq ft) facilities
• Detailed status: Extended. Resolution 2025-193 initially through 2025-12-31; extended to June 29, 2026 per official .gov press release
• Outcome: Study period; permanent post-expiration framework not confirmed

Cobb County

• Type: County
• Status: 🟢 Active
• Date enacted: 2026-02-24
• Duration: Up to 6 months / 180 days
• Moratorium ID: ga-cobb-county-2026
• Legal basis: Board of Commissioners moratorium resolution adopted unanimously 2026-02-24
• What prompted it: Surge of metro Atlanta data centers and concern over infrastructure impacts
• Affected projects: New permit applications in unincorporated Cobb County
• Detailed status: Active as of 2026-04-29
• Outcome: County review of impacts before further applications are accepted

Covington

• Type: City
• Status: 🟢 Active
• Date enacted: 2026-01-05; ratified 2026-01-20
• Duration: Until 2026-07-04
• Moratorium ID: ga-covington-2026
• Legal basis: Resolution of the Mayor and Council of the City of Covington enacting a limited moratorium until 2026-07-04 on the acceptance of applications for Data Center Development; ratified by motion at 2026-01-20 regular meeting (minutes confirm action; resolution-number not stated in minutes)
• What prompted it: New annexation and development requests; concern that data centers were treated by-right in industrial zones
• Affected projects: New requests paused; two annexation matters moved toward rejection
• Detailed status: Active as of 2026-04-29
• Outcome: Code rewrite under consideration

Coweta County

• Type: County
• Status: ⚪ Replaced
• Date enacted: 2025-05 (180-day moratorium)
• Duration: 180 days, expiring 2025-11-03 (per Coweta County spokesperson statement quoted i
• Moratorium ID: ga-coweta-county-2025
• Legal basis: Board of Commissioners moratorium resolution; replaced by permanent data center ordinance posted at https://www.coweta.ga.us/home/showpublisheddocument/32598/639016609046670000
• What prompted it: Project Peach, Project Sail, petitions, and need for countywide standards
• Affected projects: Project Peach, about $1 billion and 320 acres; Project Sail (Atlas Development), 829 acres rezoned 3-2 from Rural Conservation to Industrial on 2026-04-07 with 17 conditions, ~4.34 million square feet, ~900 MW
• Detailed status: Replaced. 180-day moratorium expired 2025-11-03; permanent data center ordinance adopted December 16, 2025 per official county .gov page
• Outcome: Permanent data center ordinance adopted December 16, 2025, replacing the expired moratorium

Decatur County

• Type: County
• Status: 🟢 Active
• Date enacted: 2026-04-14
• Duration: Indefinite
• Moratorium ID: ga-decatur-county-2026
• Legal basis: Decatur County Board of Commissioners moratorium vote 2026-04-14 (per WALB/WCTV 2026-04-15 reporting); county minutes for that meeting not yet posted online as of 2026-04-29
• What prompted it: Proactive planning before possible future projects
• Affected projects: No recent data center approach reported by commissioners
• Detailed status: Active as of 2026-04-29
• Outcome: County to develop an approach for future projects

DeKalb County

• Type: County
• Status: 🟢 Active
• Date enacted: 2025-06-25
• Duration: Initial 100 days; extended multiple times; current extension to 2026-06-23 adopt
• Moratorium ID: ga-dekalb-county-2025
• Legal basis: DeKalb County moratorium resolutions, including 2025-12-16 extension (originally numbered draft 2025-1694 per agenda referenced in research notes)
• What prompted it: Public health, diesel emissions, water, stormwater, noise, and ratepayer concerns
• Affected projects: PCC-DeKalb proposed Ellenwood campus, about 1,000,000 square feet on about 95 acres
• Detailed status: Active through 2026-06-23
• Outcome: County hearing 2026-01-27 on Chapter 27 amendments to define and regulate data centers; permanent ordinance still under development

Douglas County

• Type: County
• Status: ⚪ Expired
• Date enacted: 2025 (Resolution 25-116)
• Duration: Up to 90 days
• Moratorium ID: ga-douglas-county-2025
• Legal basis: Douglas County Resolution 25-116, "Resolution: Moratorium Data Center Accessory" (PDF saved at research/_originals/Douglas-County-Moratorium-25-116-Resolution-Moratorium-Data-Center-Accessory_DouglasCounty.pdf, sourced from WWALS archive)
• What prompted it: Proposal pipeline and need to update comprehensive plan and unified development code
• Affected projects: Large computer infrastructure/data processing facilities; Amazon-linked land activity reported locally
• Detailed status: Expired absent extension
• Outcome: Comprehensive plan and UDC review

Fayetteville

• Type: City
• Status: ⚪ Replaced
• Date enacted: 2026-01-29
• Duration: 90 days
• Moratorium ID: ga-fayetteville-2026
• Legal basis: Resolution 26-R-07 (90-day moratorium on annexation, rezoning, variance, and conceptual site plans for data centers; adopted unanimously per 2026-01-29 work session minutes)
• What prompted it: Applications for annexation, rezoning, variances, and conceptual site plans for data centers
• Affected projects: Crow Holdings Development / CHI Acquisitions, LP data center proposal north of Fayette Pavilion along Highway 85 N — denied at 2026-01-27 P&Z meeting; appeal filed to City Council and withdrawn 2026-03-18
• Detailed status: Replaced by permanent ordinance on or before 2026-03-05
• Outcome: Ordinance 26-O-12 amending UDO chapters 200 and 400 prohibits new data centers in every Fayetteville zoning district as of 2026-03-05 (per City of Fayetteville Data Center FAQs)

Griffin

• Type: City
• Status: 🟢 Active
• Date enacted: 2026-01-13
• Duration: 180 days
• Moratorium ID: ga-griffin-2026
• Legal basis: Griffin City Commission resolution on technological facilities (data centers and crypto mining), 2026-01-13
• What prompted it: Unified development code did not specifically allow technological facilities, including data centers and crypto mining
• Affected projects: No confirmed in-city project at vote
• Detailed status: Active through about 2026-07-12 (180 days from enactment)
• Outcome: City study of special-use model and power, water, noise, and traffic impacts

Hall County

• Type: County
• Status: 🟢 Active
• Date enacted: 2026-02-26
• Duration: 180 days
• Moratorium ID: ga-hall-county-2026
• Legal basis: Hall County Board of Commissioners moratorium on detention centers, high-density developments, and data centers, voted 2026-02-26 (per WSB-TV reporting and GPB Georgia Today 2026-02-27); resolution number not posted on Hall County website as of 2026-04-29
• What prompted it: Infrastructure, sewer, environmental, and development-code concerns after federal detention-facility activity
• Affected projects: Data centers on certain high-density residential, planned development, or special-use properties
• Detailed status: Active as of 2026-04-29
• Outcome: Staff review of development code and potential restrictions

Jones County

• Type: County
• Status: 🔴 Rescinded
• Date enacted: 2025-09-16 zoning amendments (subsequently rescinded after notice defects); foll
• Duration: 90 days reported in news coverage
• Moratorium ID: ga-jones-county-2025
• Legal basis: Jones County zoning amendments adopted 2025-09-16 (rescinded due to notice defects under Georgia Zoning Procedures Law) and follow-on moratorium
• What prompted it: Legal notice defects under Georgia zoning procedure law and project-pressure concerns
• Affected projects: Developer withdrew 600-plus-acre rezoning proposal after public opposition
• Detailed status: Prior ordinances rescinded; county restarted process
• Outcome: Reset to re-adopt defensible zoning controls

LaGrange

• Type: City
• Status: ⚪ Expired
• Date enacted: 2025-09-23
• Duration: 180 days
• Moratorium ID: ga-lagrange-2025
• Legal basis: LaGrange City Council 180-day moratorium resolution, adopted 2025-09-23 (per Ledger-Enquirer reporting cited in GPB 2025-10-22)
• What prompted it: Need to review zoning, noise, and property-impact rules
• Affected projects: Existing Pegasus Parkway project excluded
• Detailed status: Expired about 2026-03-22 unless extended
• Outcome: Staff-directed code review

Lamar County

• Type: County
• Status: 🟢 Active
• Date enacted: 2025-09
• Duration: Not confirmed
• Moratorium ID: ga-lamar-county-2025
• Legal basis: Lamar County moratorium action referenced in GPB 2025-10-22 statewide reporting
• What prompted it: Industrial and commercial zoning needed updating; county learned AWS bought about 985 acres for about $270 million
• Affected projects: AWS-linked 985-acre development site
• Detailed status: Unknown
• Outcome: Code modernization including data-center treatment

Monroe County

• Type: County
• Status: 🟢 Active
• Date enacted: Originally adopted by majority vote at 2025-12-02 regular meeting; documented by
• Duration: Through 2026-03-03 (next regular Board of Commissioners meeting in March 2026)
• Moratorium ID: ga-monroe-county-2025
• Legal basis: Resolution on Data Center Moratorium prepared by Brandon Bowen of Jenkins, Bowen & Walker, P.C., approved 4-1 on 2025-12-16 (resolution number not stated in approved minutes)
• What prompted it: Community backlash to hyperscale proposals (Forsyth Technology Campus) and prior approvals
• Affected projects: Forsyth Technology Campus (now annexed into City of Forsyth) concept reportedly involving large acreage and millions of square feet
• Detailed status: Status after 2026-03-03 unconfirmed
• Outcome: County working on UDO amendments addressing data centers (noise, water, buffers, etc.) per Chairman Gibbs comments at 2025-12-16 meeting

Newton County

• Type: County
• Status: ⚪ Replaced
• Date enacted: 2026-02-17
• Duration: Initial emergency moratorium to 2026-03-18; revised to 2026-04-08; extended to 2
• Moratorium ID: ga-newton-county-2026
• Legal basis: Resolution R-040726b
• What prompted it: Increased interest in data center siting and inadequate existing ordinances
• Affected projects: Applications for rezonings, special-use permits, conditional-use permits, development permits, site plans, building permits, and land-disturbing approvals for data centers
• Detailed status: Active through 2026-10-07 unless terminated or replaced
• Outcome: County study and ordinance drafting

Pike County

• Type: County
• Status: 🟢 Active
• Date enacted: 2025-09
• Duration: Not confirmed
• Moratorium ID: ga-pike-county-2025
• Legal basis: Pike County moratorium action referenced in GPB 2025-10-22 statewide reporting
• What prompted it: County sought better understanding of how to accommodate data centers
• Affected projects: Not publicly quantified in captured records
• Detailed status: Unknown
• Outcome: Code review reported

Polk County

• Type: County
• Status: 🟢 Extended
• Date enacted: 2026-03-03
• Duration: 60 days (through about 2026-05-02)
• Moratorium ID: ga-polk-county-2026
• Legal basis: Board of Commissioners action item 2 of 2026-03-03 Regular Meeting: "Consider an Ordinance Amendment to add 'Chapter 33 – Data Centers' to the official County Code of Ordinances regulating any future data centers. Approved with the addition of a 60-day moratorium on all data centers in order to bett
• What prompted it: County wanted to strengthen its zoning ordinance while regulating future data centers
• Affected projects: Future data centers countywide
• Detailed status: Active through about 2026-05-02 unless extended
• Outcome: New data center chapter plus additional zoning work

Roswell

• Type: City
• Status: ⚪ Expired
• Date enacted: 2026-01-12
• Duration: 90 days, expiring 2026-04-12
• Moratorium ID: ga-roswell-2026
• Legal basis: Temporary emergency moratorium adopted unanimously by Roswell Mayor and City Council on 2026-01-12 (per WABE and Atlanta News First reporting)
• What prompted it: New council concerns about land-use fit, utility demand, environmental effects, and Chattahoochee watershed impacts
• Affected projects: No specific named in-city project identified
• Detailed status: Expired unless extended
• Outcome: UDC and zoning review

Social Circle

• Type: City
• Status: ⚪ Replaced
• Date enacted: 2025-09
• Duration: Initial 90 days; extended an additional 90 days, then replaced by permanent ordi
• Moratorium ID: ga-social-circle-2025
• Legal basis: Social Circle City Council moratorium action
• What prompted it: Surge of annexation, rezoning, and special-use permit requests
• Affected projects: Multiple Fairplay/Cannon Drive and other proposals reported in regional news
• Detailed status: Replaced
• Outcome: New rules require special-use permits even in industrial zones, with lot-size, screening, impact-study, emergency-plan, and noise standards

Thomas County

• Type: County
• Status: 🟢 Active
• Date enacted: 2026-01-20
• Duration: 12 months
• Moratorium ID: ga-thomas-county-2026
• Legal basis: Thomas County Board of Commissioners unanimous vote at 2026-01-20 special meeting (per WCTV reporting)
• What prompted it: Proactive planning; lack of information on electricity, jobs, community effects, and resident utility-bill exposure
• Affected projects: No data center plans in county at time of vote
• Detailed status: Active through 2027-01-20
• Outcome: County collecting information, community input, and possible regulations

Troup County

• Type: County
• Status: ⚪ Expired
• Date enacted: 2025-09-16
• Duration: 90 days; extension hearing noticed (research/_web/Moratorium - Data Centers Publ
• Moratorium ID: ga-troup-county-2025
• Legal basis: Troup County 90-day moratorium with public notice for extension (per Ledger-Enquirer reporting cited in GPB 2025-10-22)
• What prompted it: Project West and broader power, water, and land-use concerns
• Affected projects: Project West, reported about $9.7 billion, 513 acres, and nearly 600 MW
• Detailed status: Expired unless extension adopted
• Outcome: UDO review and possible extension

Source: moratorium_inventory.csv · Methodology · Codebook.

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