Kansas local moratoria
Every local infrastructure moratorium in the inventory for Kansas, current through August 19, 2026.
11 instruments — 11 in force, 0 pending, 0 past.
State policy is tracked separately: 12 actions (12 bills) in state_legislation.csv. These are not included in the local count above.
| Jurisdiction | Type | Enacted | Sectors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown County | County | 2026-03-02 | data center, battery storage, solar, cryptocurrency mining | 🟢 Active |
| Geary County | County | 2026-06-22 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| Harvey County | County | 2026-01-13 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| Kingman County | County | 2026-02-09 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| Lyon County | County | 2026-07-23 | data center, battery storage | 🟢 Active |
| Lyon County | County | 2026-07-23 | solar | 🟢 Active |
| Marion County | County | 2026-03-02 | data center, battery storage | 🟢 Extended |
| McPherson County | County | 2025-08-04 | data center, cryptocurrency mining | 🟢 Extended |
| Riley County | County | 2026-05-18 | data center, battery storage | 🟢 Active |
| Saline County | County | 2026-03-17 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| Sedgwick County | County | 2026-01-14 | data center | 🟢 Extended |
Detailed entries
Brown County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-03-02 (confirmed by signed BoCC minutes, Book V Page 129)
- Normalized date:
2026-03-02(exact) - Duration: 18 months or until regulations are adopted, whichever comes first
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center, battery storage, solar, cryptocurrency mining
- Moratorium ID:
ks-brown-county-2026 - Legal basis: Resolution 2026-10 (motion by Chairman Heinen, seconded by Commissioner Pollock, motion carried unanimously per official minutes)
- What prompted it: County counselor Austin Parker framed the pause under police powers to study public health, public safety, and welfare impacts of data centers, battery energy storage systems, solar energy, chip manufacturing, and cryptocurrency projects, on recommendation of the Brown County Planning Commission.
- Affected projects: Projects involving data centers, BESS, solar energy, chip manufacturing, and cryptocurrency operations in Brown County.
- Detailed status: Active
- Outcome: Planning Commission to consider recommendations for regulation.
Geary County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-06-22 (per KSNT reporting)
- Normalized date:
2026-06-22(exact) - Duration: One year from adoption
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
ks-geary-county-2026 - Legal basis: County resolution (exact number not stated in the source retrieved)
- What prompted it: Concerns about data center infrastructure demands on water and power, and resource competition with local farmers and ranchers.
- Affected projects: Not specified in the source retrieved.
- Detailed status: Active as of 2026-07-31 (adopted 2026-06-22, after this dataset's 2026-04-28 coverage cutoff)
- Outcome: Directs county planning/zoning staff to study data center impacts during the pause.
Harvey County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-01-13
- Normalized date:
2026-01-13(exact) - Duration: Through 2029-01-01, unless amended, extended, or terminated earlier
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
ks-harvey-county-2026 - Legal basis: Resolution 2026-04
- What prompted it: Questions and concerns about regulating data centers in unincorporated areas; unknown impacts on current and future property owners; need to review the comprehensive plan and unified development code.
- Affected projects: No application had been submitted when enacted.
- Detailed status: Active
- Outcome: Planning and zoning staff and the Planning Commission were directed to review and update the comprehensive plan and code.
Kingman County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-02-09
- Normalized date:
2026-02-09(exact) - Duration: 18 months from effective date, unless reduced or extended
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
ks-kingman-county-2026 - Legal basis: Resolution 2026-R9
- What prompted it: Kingman County zoning already allowed data centers by special use permit, but planning and zoning boards requested review of all data-center zoning code provisions and public concerns had been raised.
- Affected projects: Any data center special use permit or zoning/use modification submitted after the effective date.
- Detailed status: Active
- Outcome: County officials and planning boards must consider amendments and additions to zoning code provisions governing data center applications and guidelines.
Lyon County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-07-23
- Normalized date:
2026-07-23(exact) - Duration: Through 2027-01-22
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center, battery storage
- Moratorium ID:
ks-lyon-county-2026 - Legal basis: Resolution No. 12-26
- What prompted it: Reported alongside contentious Emporia city commission meetings on data center projects; specific rationale not detailed in the source retrieved.
- Affected projects: Not specified in the source retrieved.
- Detailed status: Active as of 2026-07-31 (adopted 2026-07-23, after this dataset's 2026-04-28 coverage cutoff)
- Outcome: Directs county staff to halt receipt, review, hearing, or granting of data center and battery-energy-storage-system applications during the suspension period.
Lyon County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-07-23
- Normalized date:
2026-07-23(exact) - Duration: Through 2026-12-01
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: solar
- Moratorium ID:
ks-lyon-county-2026-2 - Legal basis: Resolution No. 13-26
- What prompted it: Adopted alongside the data-center/BESS moratorium (Resolution No. 12-26); specific rationale not detailed in the source retrieved.
- Affected projects: Not specified in the source retrieved.
- Detailed status: Active as of 2026-07-31 (adopted 2026-07-23, after this dataset's 2026-04-28 coverage cutoff)
- Outcome: Directs county staff to halt receipt, review, hearing, or granting of commercial solar energy conversion system applications during the suspension period.
Marion County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Extended
- Date enacted: 2026-03-02 (per Citizen Portal AI summary of the March 3, 2026 commission action)
- Normalized date:
2026-03-02(exact) - Duration: Through 2027-06-01: Resolution No. 2026-12 (adopted 2026-03-02) originally ran through 2026-06-01; the Marion County BoCC unanimously adopted Resolution No. 2026-19 on 2026-05-11, extending the moratorium for one additional year, through 2027-06-01. (A separate Feb. 17, 2026 action had adopted a one-year battery-energy-storage moratorium expiring March 1, 2027; commissioners had earlier discussed a one-year pause on data centers but initially adopted a three-month interim instrument before extending it to a full year.)
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center, battery storage
- Moratorium ID:
ks-marion-county-2026 - Legal basis: Resolution No. 2026-12, "A Resolution Providing for a Temporary Moratorium on the Acceptance of Applications Relating to the Establishment, Operation or Expansion of Data Centers within the Unincorporated Areas of Marion County, Kansas," citing K.S.A. 12-741 et seq. and K.S.A. 19-101 et seq. police power; passed and adopted March 2, 2026 (unanimous, 5-0; signed by Chairman Dave Crofoot, attested by County Clerk Ashley Herpich, county seal affixed). Extended one year by Resolution No. 2026-19, "A Resolution Extending the Temporary Moratorium...," passed and adopted May 11, 2026 (unanimous, 5-0).
- What prompted it: County commissioners sought time to understand battery storage and data centers after presentations from Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative; concerns included safety and protecting county residents.
- Affected projects: Data-center and related energy/discharge facilities exceeding 10 MW in unincorporated Marion County; staff stated the language excludes smaller stand-alone relay or hosting facilities.
- Detailed status: Active; extended through 2027-06-01 by Resolution No. 2026-19 (unanimous BoCC vote, adopted 2026-05-11).
- Outcome: Planning and zoning staff expected to prepare permanent rules.
McPherson County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Extended
- Date enacted: 2025-08-04
- Normalized date:
2025-08-04(exact) - Duration: Initially through 2026-03-01; later extended to 2026-12-01 (Wichita Eagle and Citizen Journal reporting); extension instrument adopted alongside extensions of related BESS and hydrogen moratoria to 2026-09-01 [VERIFY signed extension resolution]
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center, cryptocurrency mining
- Moratorium ID:
ks-mcpherson-county-2025 - Legal basis: Resolution 2025-14 (adopted by unanimous voice vote per Citizen Portal AI summary of August 4, 2025 commission meeting); primary signed text not yet captured [VERIFY signed copy]
- What prompted it: Planning staff requested time for the planning board to study data centers and cryptocurrency mining under the comprehensive plan and zoning regulations; concerns included noise, water usage, siting near substations and industrial zones, and conditional-use standards.
- Affected projects: Existing smaller Bitcoin/data-center operators (KV Enterprises) and a prospective 50 MW AI-scale proposal (Vincent Zottola, Midwest Mining/East Coast ASEC) were discussed at adoption per Citizen Portal AI meeting summary.
- Detailed status: Active through 2026-12-01 based on Citizen Journal "Commissioners extend moratoriums" summary and Wichita Eagle reporting
- Outcome: Planning board and county staff directed to develop zoning or comprehensive-plan amendments.
Riley County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-05-18 (per news reporting: commissioners agreed in principle around April 2026, but the moratorium resolution was not signed/effective until May 18, 2026)
- Normalized date:
2026-05-18(unverified) - Duration: Six months: effective 2026-05-18 through 2026-11-12, per KMAN (1350kman.com) and WIBW reporting on the signed resolution
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center, battery storage
- Moratorium ID:
ks-riley-county-2026 - Legal basis: County Commission moratorium action [VERIFY resolution number from official minutes]
- What prompted it: County commissioners wanted time to study data center and BESS impacts before making a firm policy decision; concerns included high electricity consumption, utility bills, and cooling water.
- Affected projects: Data centers and battery energy storage systems.
- Detailed status: Active
- Outcome: Study period for potential county policy or zoning standards.
Saline County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-03-17
- Normalized date:
2026-03-17(exact) - Duration: Three-year aggregate, structured as one year per covered category: 1 year data centers, 1 year nuclear power facilities, 1 year hydrogen-based energy facilities, per Salina Post interview with Commissioner Joe Hay; Wichita Eagle reported it as a three-year moratorium
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
ks-saline-county-2026 - Legal basis: County Commission action; resolution number not yet identified [VERIFY signed resolution from Saline County clerk]
- What prompted it: Commissioners wanted to halt applications until regulations and resource needs were clear, after denial of a proposed battery energy storage system on a 4-1 supermajority vote in January 2026.
- Affected projects: Data center, nuclear power, and hydrogen-based energy facility applications in unincorporated Saline County.
- Detailed status: Active
- Outcome: County planning process for regulations on covered facilities.
Sedgwick County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Extended
- Date enacted: 2026-01-14
- Normalized date:
2026-01-14(exact) - Duration: Initially 90 days through 2026-04-17 under Resolution 014-2026; on 2026-03-04 the BoCC voted unanimously to extend the moratorium to 2026-06-11; on 2026-05-06 (vote taken at the May 1, 2026 meeting per KWCH) the BoCC voted unanimously a second time to extend the moratorium to 2026-09-11
- Current end date:
2026-09-11 - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
ks-sedgwick-county-2026 - Legal basis: Resolution No. 014-2026 ("A Resolution Establishing an Interim Development Control and Providing for the Suspension of Certain Types of Use Applications and Building Permits"), adopted 2026-01-14, citing K.S.A. 12-741 et seq. and K.S.A. 19-101 et seq. police power (confirmed from the signed resolution PDF); extended by a BoCC resolution adopted 2026-03-04 (to 2026-06-11), and extended a second time by a BoCC resolution adopted 2026-05-06 (to 2026-09-11) [VERIFY extension resolution number]
- What prompted it: Wichita-Sedgwick County Unified Zoning Code did not define data centers; county had increased inquiries for potential projects, especially in unincorporated western Sedgwick County.
- Affected projects: Monarch Energy and NextEra Energy land-acquisition activity in western Sedgwick County; no filed applications identified at adoption.
- Detailed status: Active through 2026-09-11. After the initial 2026-03-04 extension (to 2026-06-11), the BoCC voted unanimously again on 2026-05-06 to extend the interim development control a second time, to 2026-09-11, at planning staff's request to satisfy Kansas's 20-day public-notice requirement before the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission considers new data-center zoning rules.
- Outcome: Wichita-Sedgwick County Metropolitan Area Planning Department prepared a data center white paper recommending definition, classification, conditional use review, overlay options, or prohibition of hyperscale facilities.
Source: moratorium_inventory.csv · Methodology · Codebook.