Utah local moratoria
Every local infrastructure moratorium in the inventory for Utah, current through September 23, 2026.
9 instruments — 9 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 |
| Clearfield | City | 2026-09-08 | 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 |
| Milford | City | 2026-06-16 | data center, solar | 🟢 Active |
| Sanpete County | County | 2026-08-04 | 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: —
Clearfield
- Type: City
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-09-08, Clearfield City Council regular meeting, 4-0 vote (Councilmember Danielle King absent).
- Normalized date:
2026-09-08(exact) - Duration: 180 days from adoption (to approximately 2027-03-07).
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
ut-clearfield-2026 - Legal basis: Temporary land use regulation/moratorium on data center development approved by Clearfield City Council 4-0 on September 8, 2026, following an August 25, 2026 work-session discussion (recorded in the city's own signed minutes) in which the city attorney confirmed the Council could adopt a 180-day temporary land use regulation while a pending zoning-determination request for a data center at Freeport Center Building J8 was evaluated.
- What prompted it: regulatory_gap; a pending zoning-determination request for a proposed data center in the Freeport Center's M-1 Manufacturing Zone (Building J8) exposed that Clearfield's code has no definition or zoning classification for 'data center,' prompting the Council to pause while it studies electrical demand, water consumption, noise, and other impacts and considers pending state legislation.
- Affected projects: A pending zoning-determination request (not yet a formal application) for a proposed data center in Building J8 at the Freeport Center, M-1 Manufacturing Zone; city staff's preliminary review found the use did not clearly fit existing warehouse or manufacturing classifications.
- Detailed status: Active as of 2026-09-23. The Clearfield City Council voted 4-0 on September 8, 2026 to adopt a 180-day moratorium prohibiting data center development in the city (through approximately March 7, 2027) while officials study whether special zoning guidelines are warranted. No data center proposal was found to be barred outright by the action; a pending zoning-determination request at the Freeport Center (Building J8) prompted the pause. No extension or replacement was found in sources reviewed through 2026-09-23.
- Outcome: Clearfield City Council adopted a 180-day moratorium on data center development after a zoning-determination request exposed a gap in the city's zoning code.
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(exact) - 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: Item 15, 'Ordinance - Temporary land use regulation - Data Centers,' approved 7-0 (Commissioner Bill Winfield's motion seconded, all present commissioners voting yes) at the Grand County Commission's July 7, 2026 regular meeting, per the county's own signed meeting minutes; pauses acceptance and processing of applications, permits, and licenses for data centers, data center power plants, and associated digital infrastructure for up to 180 days. County staff refer to the instrument as a 'temporary land use regulation' rather than 'moratorium' on the advice of the county's land-use attorney, though it functions as a moratorium. No separately numbered ordinance document (e.g., 'Ordinance No. ___') was found; the minutes themselves are the primary record of adoption.
- 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: Active as of 2026-09-23. Confirmed via Grand County's own signed July 7, 2026 Commission meeting minutes: the Commission voted 7-0 to adopt the ordinance/temporary land use regulation pausing acceptance and processing of data center, data center power plant, and associated digital infrastructure applications for up to 180 days (through approximately January 3, 2027), effective immediately. Staff described it as 'not a ban' and confirmed no data center applications were pending at adoption. No extension, replacement, or rescission was found in sources reviewed through 2026-09-23. A distinct, unrelated moratorium reported by SkyHiNews.com running through June 2027 refers to Grand County, Colorado, not this Grand County, Utah row.
- 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: —
Milford
- Type: City
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: June 16, 2026
- Normalized date:
2026-06-16(exact) - Duration: 180 days
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center, solar
- Moratorium ID:
ut-milford-2026 - Legal basis: Ordinance 4-2026
- What prompted it: Council concerns over municipal water supply, source protection areas and electrical infrastructure impacts
- Affected projects: None named; preemptive
- Detailed status: Active as of 2026-09-23.
- Outcome: Staff and Planning & Zoning researching best practices and drafting siting/infrastructure standards
Sanpete County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-08-04, Sanpete County Commission regular meeting, following a recommendation from the Sanpete County Planning Commission.
- Normalized date:
2026-08-04(exact) - Duration: Six months from adoption (to approximately 2027-01-31); county officials described the moratorium as renewable 'six months at a time' as long as the county shows it is working toward permanent regulations.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
ut-sanpete-county-2026 - Legal basis: Temporary land use regulation/moratorium approved by the Sanpete County Commission on August 4, 2026, under Utah's temporary land use regulation statute; mirrors a similar six-month moratorium the county adopted on commercial solar farm development in June 2026. No separately numbered ordinance was identified in sources reviewed.
- What prompted it: County code contains no ordinance governing data centers; commissioners wanted time to draft and adopt land-use standards before any development proposal could be submitted under existing (silent) county code.
- Affected projects: None named; no data center application was reported pending in the county at adoption.
- Detailed status: Active as of 2026-09-23. The Sanpete County Commission approved a six-month moratorium on new data center development at its August 4, 2026 meeting, giving Planning and Zoning staff time to draft land-use regulations for the industry; no data center application was reported pending at adoption. No extension or replacement was found in sources reviewed through 2026-09-23.
- Outcome: Sanpete County Commission adopted a six-month moratorium on new data center development, directing Planning and Zoning staff to draft permanent land-use regulations.
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.