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How much announced capacity is actually blocked — not how many ordinances exist. Only restrictions that genuinely bind (conditional and above) and are in force right now count toward the figure, and each project is counted once at its largest affected capacity.
Capacity at risk
0 MW
0% of tracked pipeline
Projects affected
0
Deduplicated
Live restrictions
3
5 tracked in total
Live but non-binding
2
Counted by ordinance trackers, blocks nothing
Expiring in 12 months
0
Capacity due to be released
Why the two counts differ — 3 restrictions are in force, but 2 of them are advisory, proposed or merely procedural: they add process and cost without stopping a project. A tracker that counts ordinances reports the larger number. This page reports the megawatts. Of the 3 restrictions that reached a decision, 100% were adopted (0 rejected, 2 still pending).
No capacity currently blocked.
Restrictions bite through the interconnection queue, so the RTO view is the one that maps to transmission exposure.
No capacity currently blocked.
| Expires | Jurisdiction | Restriction | Binding | MW released | Projects |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not published | DeKalb County | County ban on new data center construction | 4 — Temporary ban | 0 MW | 0 |
An expiry is a positive catalyst — capacity returning to the pipeline — and nobody publishes a list of them. A time-limited ban with no published end date is shown as such rather than being treated as indefinite.
No projects currently blocked
| Jurisdiction | Level | Restricts | Binding | Status | Enacted | Expires | Projects |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Georgia Proposed one-year state-wide ban on data center construction | State | New construction | 1 — Proposed | Proposed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | 0 |
Restrictions are linked to projects explicitly by an analyst, never inferred from matching location text. A wrong inference would silently move the headline figure, which is the one number this page exists to produce.
HB1515 — no final approval of new data center applications until the interconnection backlog clears
| State |
| Rezoning |
| 1 — Proposed |
| Proposed |
| Not disclosed |
| Jul 1, 2028 |
| 0 |
DeKalb County County ban on new data center construction | County | New construction | 4 — Temporary ban | Active | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | 0 |
Virginia $0.011/kWh data centre energy consumption tax, capped at $600m a year | State | Tax abatement | 2 — Procedural | Active | Jun 30, 2026 | Not disclosed | 0 |
United States (multiple localities) Local and state-wide ballot measures targeting data centres | Special district | Disclosure only | 0 — Advisory | Active | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | 0 |