Data centers

The moratoria, studies and ordinances of 2026, government by government.

149

items and write-ups

governments

3 Nov 2025

first taken up

157

speakers, across 32 meetings with captions

What this count cannot see

This one is also a topic, so the wider view counts more than the phrase match does. It is here because it is the clearest example on the site of a subject traveling between governments.

This subject overlaps the data-centers topic, which is tagged on every item rather than matched on phrases. That count is the wider one.

Who took it up, and when

Each government's first appearance in the window, in order. The bar is where in the window it landed, so a subject that swept the region in one season and one that trickled across two years read differently at a glance.

First appearance by government, 13 Oct 2025 to 13 Oct 2026
#	Government	First seen	Gap
1	Wake County	3 Nov 2025	first
2	Orange County	13 Nov 2025	9 days later
3	Durham County	24 Nov 2025	11 days later
4	Chatham County	20 Jan 2026	8 weeks later
5	Town of Apex	22 Jan 2026	1 day later
6	Town of Cary	18 Feb 2026	3 weeks later
7	Town of Hillsborough	13 Apr 2026	7 weeks later
8	Town of Pittsboro	20 Apr 2026	6 days later
9	City of Durham	4 May 2026	13 days later
10	Town of Garner	19 May 2026	15 days later
11	Town of Holly Springs	16 Jun 2026	4 weeks later
12	Town of Morrisville	27 Aug 2026	2 months later

Month by month

Items mentioning this subject per month across the window.

Which words did the matching

A subject carried entirely by one phrase is a different finding from one carried by six. These are the words the documents themselves used.

data center ×139
cryptocurrency mining ×24
data centre ×12
data processing facilities ×12
hyperscale ×5
crypto-mining ×2
crypto mining ×1
cryptomining ×1
data processing facility ×1

Governments with nothing on this

No item or write-up in this window mentions the subject in Chatham County Schools, City of Raleigh, City of Sanford, NC General Assembly, Town of Chapel Hill, Town of Fuquay-Varina, Town of Knightdale, Town of Wake Forest, and Wake County Public School System. That is not proof nothing happened there. Two school boards and several towns publish agendas no program can read, and a subject can be discussed at length without a word of it reaching a printed agenda.

What was on the agenda

Items mentioning data centers, newest first
Date	Government	Item	Matched	Public comment
6 Oct 2026	Town of Holly Springs Development Review Committee	Land Use Advisory Committee (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	not read
6 Oct 2026	Town of Holly Springs Development Review Committee	Approve September 1, 2026 LUAC Minutes	`data center`	not read
6 Oct 2026	Orange County Board of County Commissioners	Information Items	`data center`	not read
6 Oct 2026	Orange County Board of County Commissioners	Business Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	not read
24 Sep 2026	Chatham County Climate Change Advisory Committee	Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	not read
24 Sep 2026	Chatham County Climate Change Advisory Committee	Update: Data Centers and Judge's Ruling	`data center`	not read
24 Sep 2026	Town of Cary Town Council	Regular Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	9 spoke
17 Sep 2026	Town of Apex Environmental Advisory Board	Environmental Advisory Board Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	nobody spoke
17 Sep 2026	Town of Apex Environmental Advisory Board	Approval of Minutes The tree canopy subcommittee minutes were pulled for review after a member read…	`data center`	nobody spoke
17 Sep 2026	Town of Apex Environmental Advisory Board	Voting members into subcommittees Courtney appointed to the tree city subcommittee, and Romesh and Kimberly to th…	`data center`	nobody spoke
15 Sep 2026	Chatham County Planning Board	Planning Board Special Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	not read
15 Sep 2026	Chatham County Planning Board	Other Business: data center discussion	`data center`	not read
15 Sep 2026	Town of Cary Town Council	Quarterly (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	not read
8 Sep 2026	Chatham County Planning Board	Planning Board Special Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	not read
8 Sep 2026	Chatham County Planning Board	Board Discussion: proposed text amendments for data centers	`data center`	not read
8 Sep 2026	Town of Apex Environmental Advisory Board	Environmental Advisory Board Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	nobody spoke
8 Sep 2026	Town of Apex Environmental Advisory Board	Environmental Impact Presentations	`data centre`	nobody spoke
2 Sep 2026	Town of Apex Environmental Advisory Board	Environmental Advisory Board Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	not read
2 Sep 2026	Town of Apex Environmental Advisory Board	Environmental impact presentations on data centers	`data center`	not read
1 Sep 2026	Town of Holly Springs Development Review Committee	Data Center Study Meeting #3	`data center`	not read
1 Sep 2026	Town of Holly Springs Development Review Committee	Land Use Advisory Committee (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	not read
27 Aug 2026	Chatham County Climate Change Advisory Committee	Update: Data Centers and Meeting with Duke Energy	`data center`	not read
27 Aug 2026	Chatham County Climate Change Advisory Committee	Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	not read
27 Aug 2026	Town of Cary Town Council	Regular Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	15 spoke
27 Aug 2026	Town of Cary Town Council	Public Hearing for an Ordinance Establishing a Temporary 18-month Moratorium on the Acceptance, Processing, a…	`data center, cryptocurrency mining`	15 spoke
27 Aug 2026	Town of Morrisville Town Council	Town Council (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	not read
27 Aug 2026	Town of Morrisville Town Council	Data Centers: State and Regional Overview	`data center, data centre`	not read
24 Aug 2026	Durham County Board of County Commissioners	Regular Session (from the meeting write-up)	`data center, hyperscale, data centre, data processing facility, cryptocurrency mining`	not read
24 Aug 2026	Durham County Board of County Commissioners	Public Hearing - Proposed Moratorium on New or Expanded Data Centers	`data center, data processing facilities, cryptocurrency mining`	not read
20 Aug 2026	Town of Apex Town Council and advisory boards	Environmental Advisory Board Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	8 spoke
20 Aug 2026	Town of Apex Town Council and advisory boards	Approval of minutes: May 21 and June 18 regular meetings, and the data center and tree canopy subcommittees	`data center`	8 spoke
18 Aug 2026	Town of Holly Springs Town Council	Town Council Business Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	4 spoke
18 Aug 2026	Chatham County Planning Board	Planning Board Special Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center, cryptomining, cryptocurrency mining, hyperscale`	not read
18 Aug 2026	Chatham County Planning Board	Board Discussion: proposed text amendments for data centers Reached Section D, noise mitigation standards; continued to 8 September	`data center`	not read
18 Aug 2026	Chatham County Planning Board	Introductory Remarks	`data center`	not read
18 Aug 2026	Chatham County Planning Board	Overarching Regulations for Data Centers Both sent forward, 7-2, and referred to the county attorney for a second opinio…	`data center`	not read
4 Aug 2026	Town of Holly Springs Development Review Committee	Land Use Advisory Committee (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	not read
3 Aug 2026	Durham County Board of County Commissioners	Work Session (from the meeting write-up)	`data centre, data processing facilities, cryptocurrency mining`	not read
3 Aug 2026	Durham County Board of County Commissioners	Data Center Moratorium Discussion	`data center, data processing facilities, cryptocurrency mining`	not read
30 Jul 2026	Chatham County Climate Change Advisory Committee	Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	not read
30 Jul 2026	Chatham County Climate Change Advisory Committee	Update: extended data center moratorium recommendation Reported as submitted	`data center`	not read
20 Jul 2026	Town of Pittsboro 6. Planning Board (PB)	Planning Board Regular (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	3 spoke
14 Jul 2026	Chatham County Planning Board	Planning Board Special Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	not read
14 Jul 2026	Chatham County Planning Board	Board Discussion: Noise A motion to leave the dBA standards as written failed 2-7	`data center`	not read
14 Jul 2026	Chatham County Planning Board	Public Input Session	`data center`	not read
7 Jul 2026	Town of Holly Springs Development Review Committee	Land Use Advisory Committee (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	not read
7 Jul 2026	Town of Holly Springs Development Review Committee	Data Center Study Meeting #1	`data center`	not read
25 Jun 2026	Chatham County Climate Change Advisory Committee	Data center regulation: core principles and by-right criteria	`data center`	not read
25 Jun 2026	Chatham County Climate Change Advisory Committee	Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	not read
25 Jun 2026	Chatham County Climate Change Advisory Committee	Enbridge 28-mile gas pipeline	`data center`	not read
23 Jun 2026	Town of Holly Springs Planning Board	Development Services Report	`data center`	nobody spoke
23 Jun 2026	Town of Holly Springs Planning Board	Planning Board (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	nobody spoke
22 Jun 2026	Town of Hillsborough Board of Commissioners	Public Hearing to Receive Public Comment on Adoption of an Ordinance Imposing a One Year Development Moratori…	`data center`	8 spoke
22 Jun 2026	Town of Hillsborough Board of Commissioners	Data Center Land Use Development Moratoria Extension from 60 Days to One Year	`data center`	8 spoke
22 Jun 2026	Town of Hillsborough Board of Commissioners	Board of Commissioners Work Session (from the meeting write-up)	`data center, cryptocurrency mining`	8 spoke
22 Jun 2026	Town of Pittsboro 1. Board of Commissioners (BOC)	Chatham County Annual Highlights Presented. No vote.	`data center`	nobody spoke
22 Jun 2026	Town of Pittsboro 1. Board of Commissioners (BOC)	Special Joint Session of the Board of Commissioners-Executive Meeting with Chatham County, Town of Siler City… (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	nobody spoke
16 Jun 2026	Town of Holly Springs Town Council	Town Council Business Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center, cryptocurrency mining`	2 spoke
16 Jun 2026	Town of Holly Springs Town Council	Consideration of a Moratorium on Data Centers	`data center`	2 spoke
16 Jun 2026	Orange County Board of County Commissioners	Business Meeting (from the meeting write-up)	`data center`	17 spoke

Public comment is only known where a meeting's captions have been read, which is a small share of them. "Not read" means unknown, not zero.