Highlands NY three-year data center moratorium (2026)

Town of Highlands, N.Y. — THREE-YEAR DATA CENTER MORATORIUM approved by the board following a NEARLY TWO-HOUR PUBLIC HEARING at which residents expressed emotions ranging from CONCERN TO FEAR. DURATION IS THE FEATURE REQUIRING SCRUTINY: three years sits at the extreme end of the distribution in this dataset, matched only by Madison County AR three-year data center moratorium (2026) and four other Arkansas counties, and exceeded only by a reported FIVE-YEAR Independence County, Arkansas moratorium. IT EXCEEDS EVERY CEILING STATED ON THE RECORD BY A MUNICIPAL OFFICIAL IN THIS DATASET: Isanti MN 12-month data center moratorium (2026) (a Minnesota development director: 12 months is the statutory maximum, AND the municipality must be proving staff are actively drafting), Bellevue WI 12-month data center moratorium (2026) (a Wisconsin village administrator: 12 months plus one 6-month extension, and 'moratoriums are not meant to be a tool to prohibit something forever'), and Henderson NV rejects data center moratorium, pursues code changes (2026) (a Nevada city attorney: defensible 'up to 12 to 18 months before you have to make some permanent changes to your code'). NEW YORK TOWN MORATORIUM AUTHORITY IS NOT IDENTIFIED in the located source and may differ materially \u2014 New York town boards act under Town Law rather than the municipal planning statutes those officials were describing, and the point is FLAGGED FOR CHECKING, NOT ASSERTED AS A DEFECT. It is nonetheless the kind of exposure developer plaintiffs are already pleading: Raeden v. Gibraltar MI data center moratorium challenge (2026) attacks a ONE-year moratorium in federal court, and NJ developer litigation against municipal data center bans (2026) pleads that officials exceeded their authority. NEW YORK LAYERING: NY Hochul EO — Statewide Data Center Moratorium (2026) was the nation's first statewide hyperscale pause but operates at a 50 MW threshold, leaving everything beneath it to local government \u2014 which is expressly why Auburn NY one-year data center moratorium (2026) and Town of Tonawanda NY data center moratorium LL 2-2026 were adopted, and the layer Camden NY local data center moratorium (2026) and this measure occupy.