Gallatin TN 60-day data center application pause (2026)

City of Gallatin, Tenn. (Sumner County) — 60-DAY PAUSE on new data center applications, approved by the City Commissioners in late July 2026. EXPRESS LIMITATION, stated by the commissioners themselves: this is NOT the full moratorium proposed weeks earlier; it TEMPORARILY STOPS THE PROCESSING of new data center applications WHILE LEADERS CONSIDER A BROADER MORATORIUM. The Gallatin planning commission was expected to take up the proposed broader moratorium the following Monday. INSTRUMENT CLASS \u2014 A HOLDING ACTION, which is why it is indexed despite its brevity: a short application pause adopted quickly serves to CLOSE THE FILING WINDOW while a substantive measure is drafted. This dataset records several jurisdictions that failed to do so and lost the project that prompted them: Salem OR 120-day data center moratorium (Res. 2026-40) (application filed days before the council vote, moratorium may not reach it), Rockford IL six-month data center moratorium (2026) (pre-existing annexation agreement), Cle Elum WA emergency data center moratorium (2026) (2002 development agreement) and Lowell MA Markley data center diesel generator injunction (2026) (pre-moratorium plans preserved by settlement). Gallatin inverted the sequence: stop first, decide second. strength is `limited` because 60 days confers no substantive protection beyond the drafting window, and status/dates should be re-checked since the pause has likely lapsed or been superseded by the broader measure. CONTRAST IN THE SAME REPORT: LAWRENCE COUNTY, TENNESSEE commissioners TABLED a proposed yearlong moratorium after concluding THE COUNTY LACKS THE ZONING RULES NEEDED TO ENFORCE IT \u2014 the inverse of the Westerly, Rhode Island reasoning (Westerly RI one-year data center moratorium (2026)), where the same absence of zoning capacity was given as the reason TO adopt a pause. Neither the Gallatin broader moratorium nor the Lawrence County tabling is separately indexed.