The Rockefeller Institute of Government has published an updated analysis documenting the expanding number of local and state moratoriums on data center development across the United States. The report catalogs new moratoriums enacted in multiple jurisdictions, reflecting accelerating municipal and county-level resistance to rapid data center buildout. The analysis provides the most current count of active development pauses affecting the industry.
A systematic count of active moratoriums reveals the geographic breadth of regulatory resistance, which directly constrains where developers can break ground and forces site selection teams to reassess pipeline projects. The trend signals that permitting risk is becoming a structural factor in data center investment planning, not an isolated local issue.
Keywords 'moratoriums,' 'data centers,' and named institution Rockefeller Institute triggered selection; the aggregating, policy-tracking nature of the report offers industry-wide consequence beyond any single jurisdiction, ranking it above individual local opposition stories in this run.