Pioneer OH six-month data center moratorium (2026)

Pioneer, Ohio (Williams County, near the Ohio-Indiana line) — SIX-MONTH MORATORIUM passed by the VILLAGE COUNCIL, reported 2026-09-17, on a data center proposed for the FORMER AQUABOUNTY FACILITY SITE. STATED PURPOSE: to CONDUCT STUDIES, 'INCLUDING A NEW ELECTRICAL STUDY.' Council members said 'they don't want anything fast-tracked without knowing exactly who their new neighbor would be.' SCOPE IS PROJECT-SPECIFIC, WHICH IS THE PRINCIPAL ANALYTICAL CAVEAT: the source describes the moratorium as being 'on the plan' rather than on data center development generally. A pause directed at an identified proposal is materially more exposed than a general interim ordinance — it invites the argument that the village is singling out one applicant rather than exercising general legislative judgment, and it sits closer to the spot-zoning and equal-protection objections than the general pauses in this wave (Marysville KS 12-month data center moratorium (2026), Marina CA 45-day data center moratorium (2026)). WHETHER THE ADOPTED ORDINANCE IS IN FACT DRAFTED AS A GENERAL MEASURE IS NOT ESTABLISHED BY THIS SOURCE, which is brief; the project-specific framing may be the reporter's rather than the ordinance's, and this entry does not resolve it. THE ELECTRICAL STUDY IS THE SUBSTANTIVE FEATURE. Commissioning an independent electrical study before deciding addresses the constraint this dataset repeatedly shows officials discovering late: at Eureka CA data center moratorium and 20,000 sq ft cap direction (2026) planning staff reported PG&E advising that ONE SUBSTATION SERVING THE CITY WAS ALREADY AT CAPACITY and another had ~10 MW remaining against a typical 2026 ask of 50-100 MW; at Steuben County IN six-month data center moratorium (2026) utilities' high-transmission routing discussions were the precipitating factor; at Latah County ID data center regulations (2026) the county imposed an ANNUAL electrical consumption and peak demand reporting duty. A village commissioning its own study pre-decision is the same diagnostic applied early. SITE CONTEXT: AquaBounty operated land-based aquaculture facilities; a former aquaculture plant is a large industrial parcel with established power and water service and existing industrial zoning — the brownfield/reuse conversion pattern also recorded at Oakland CA 45-day data center moratorium (Oct. 2026) (a building that previously housed a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory supercomputing facility, cited for its 'substantial existing power infrastructure') and Inver Grove Heights MN data center moratorium amended under lawsuit (2026) (the former Travel Tags site). EXISTING SERVICE IS THE ATTRACTOR, and it is why such sites surface repeatedly. NOT OBTAINED: the vote tally, the ordinance number, whether the measure was adopted as an emergency ordinance (cf. McDonald OH one-year data center moratorium (2026) in this wave), the developer's identity, and the exact date of passage. expires_date IS COMPUTED as six months from an ASSUMED 2026-09-16 passage.