Utah local moratoria
Every local infrastructure moratorium in the inventory for Utah, current through August 19, 2026.
6 instruments — 6 in force, 0 pending, 0 past.
State policy is tracked separately: 8 actions (8 bills) in state_legislation.csv. These are not included in the local count above.
| Jurisdiction | Type | Enacted | Sectors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Box Elder County | County | 2026-06-10 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| Cache County | County | 2026-06-23 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| Grand County | County | 2026-07-07 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| Iron County | County | 2026-05-26 | data center, solar | 🟢 Active |
| Logan | City | 2026-06-30 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| Wayne County | County | 2026-07-08 | data center | 🟢 Active |
Detailed entries
Box Elder County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: County Commission unanimously adopted Ordinance 654 on 2026-06-10.
- Normalized date:
2026-06-10(exact) - Duration: 180-day temporary land-use regulation on data centers, data center power plants, and associated digital infrastructure in areas where the county retains land-use authority. Stops new land-use and business-license applications, building permits, administrative appeals, conditional use permits, subdivisions, zone changes, site plans, development agreements, and similar approvals. Applications formally determined complete before the effective date may proceed; incomplete covered applications are suspended.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
ut-box-elder-county-2026 - Legal basis: Ordinance 654, Box Elder County Commission
- What prompted it: Adopted while the county develops updated data center regulations, in areas outside the Military Installation Development Authority's Stratos project area.
- Affected projects: Explicitly does not apply to the Stratos project (MIDA-controlled project area)
- Detailed status: Active as of 2026-07-31; 180-day pause from 2026-06-10. County officials expressly stated it does not affect the Stratos project, because the Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA), not the county, controls land use within that project area.
- Outcome: —
Cache County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: County Council suspended its rules and voted 6-0 (one member absent) to adopt Ordinance 2026-32 on 2026-06-23.
- Normalized date:
2026-06-23(exact) - Duration: Proactive 180-day moratorium on data centers and data center power plants across all zones in unincorporated Cache County, pausing covered land-use, license, permit, appeal, conditional-use, subdivision, zone-change, site-plan, development-agreement, and similar applications (applications already determined complete may continue). Directs staff and the Planning Commission to prepare permanent regulations within 150 days.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
ut-cache-county-2026 - Legal basis: Ordinance 2026-32, Cache County Council
- What prompted it: Proactive measure; minutes state the county had received no data center inquiries and the action was not a response to a pending project.
- Affected projects: —
- Detailed status: Active as of 2026-07-31; 180-day pause from 2026-06-23, adopted proactively with no pending data center project.
- Outcome: —
Grand County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: County Commission voted 7-0 on 2026-07-07 to adopt a temporary land use regulation, effective immediately.
- Normalized date:
2026-07-07(unverified) - Duration: 180-day pause on acceptance and processing of applications for data centers, data center power plants, and associated digital infrastructure. Planning and Zoning Director Andrew Jackson said no data center application was pending and the county code lacked a data center definition and standards addressing water, power, noise, lighting, and visual impacts.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
ut-grand-county-2026 - Legal basis: Temporary land use regulation approved by County Commission 7-0 vote; a separate adopted ordinance PDF was not located as of compilation
- What prompted it: County code lacked a data center definition and standards addressing water, power, noise, lighting, and visual impacts; no data center application was pending.
- Affected projects: —
- Detailed status: Reported active as of 2026-07-31, per the official meeting portal and independent news coverage; formal ordinance text not located as of compilation. [VERIFY instrument number; primary source (news-only evidence) not confirmed at confidence 0.65 in the 2026-07 refresh]
- Outcome: —
Iron County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: County Commission approved Ordinance 2026-13 by a 2-0 vote (Commissioner Paul Cozzens absent) on 2026-05-26.
- Normalized date:
2026-05-26(exact) - Duration: 180 days. Bars acceptance or processing of new applications for data centers, data center power plants, and solar power plants while the county develops updated regulations. Complete applications were exempt (the Pronghorn/Antelope Data Center application was identified as complete and exempt); incomplete pending applications were suspended (the BrightNight Red Butte application was placed on hold).
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center, solar
- Moratorium ID:
ut-iron-county-2026 - Legal basis: Ordinance 2026-13, Iron County Commission
- What prompted it: Adopted while the county develops updated data center and solar power plant regulations.
- Affected projects: Pronghorn Development LLC's Antelope Data Center application (deemed complete, exempt); BrightNight's Red Butte Energy and Data Center Campus application (incomplete, placed on hold)
- Detailed status: Active as of 2026-07-31; 180-day pause from 2026-05-26. This is distinct from the Antelope Data Center conditional-use permit the Planning Commission approved on 2026-06-04, which county staff say was deemed complete before the moratorium took effect and so was not blocked by it.
- Outcome: —
Logan
- Type: City
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: Municipal Council voted 5-0 to adopt Ordinance 26-12 on 2026-06-30, following a public hearing; published and effective 2026-07-01.
- Normalized date:
2026-06-30(exact) - Duration: 180-day moratorium throughout Logan City: the city may not accept, process, approve, or issue an application, permit, or approval authorizing construction or development of a data center or data center power plant, and no person may begin such development. Expires after 180 days unless the council ends it earlier.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
ut-logan-2026 - Legal basis: Ordinance 26-12, Logan Municipal Council
- What prompted it: City departments had begun work on land-development and utility-related proposals; adopted to allow further Planning Commission review and public comment.
- Affected projects: —
- Detailed status: Active as of 2026-07-31; 180-day moratorium effective 2026-07-01.
- Outcome: —
Wayne County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: County Commission voted 3-0 to approve Resolution 2026-04 on 2026-07-08.
- Normalized date:
2026-07-08(exact) - Duration: 180-day temporary suspension on land use applications for data centers and data center power plants, applying throughout zoned and unzoned unincorporated Wayne County. Covers land use and business-license applications, building permits, administrative appeals, conditional use permits, subdivisions, zone changes, site plans, development agreements, and related approvals.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
ut-wayne-county-2026 - Legal basis: Resolution 2026-04, Wayne County Commission
- What prompted it: —
- Affected projects: —
- Detailed status: Active as of 2026-07-31; 180-day suspension effective 2026-07-08.
- Outcome: —
Source: moratorium_inventory.csv · Methodology · Codebook.