Bellevue WI 12-month data center moratorium (2026)

Village of Bellevue, Wis. (Brown County) — temporary 12-MONTH data center moratorium, adopted UNANIMOUSLY by the Village Board following a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2026, expiring AUGUST 2027. INSTRUMENT FORM: an AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 500 OF THE BELLEVUE ZONING CODE, temporarily blocking the development or construction of data centers \u2014 not a freestanding resolution. This is the same durability-motivated choice recorded on Garfield Township MI data center and crypto mining ban (2026), where officials said municipalities enacting standalone 'knee-jerk moratoriums' 'are being challenged and losing in court'. ADOPTED DEFINITION, which many jurisdictions in this dataset omitted and had to add later: a data center is 'a dedicated building, facility or campus used primarily to house computer system servers that process, store and transmit digital data.' THE STATUTORY CEILING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTENT HERE. Village Administrator BENJAMIN KRUMENAUER stated on the record that 'The state of Wisconsin's regulations limit the length and overall time you can amend the length of a moratorium' and that 'Wisconsin allows for up to 12 months and one additional six month extension \u2014 if appropriate \u2014 at which point in time the board would correct whatever perceived issue they have in their code... or the moratorium would simply expire', adding that 'Moratoriums are not meant to be a tool to prohibit something forever.' AN 18-MONTH STATUTORY MAXIMUM IN WISCONSIN, stated by a municipal administrator, has direct consequences for other Wisconsin entries in this dataset: Cottage Grove WI 18-month data center moratorium (2026) was adopted at EIGHTEEN MONTHS in a single step, which on Krumenauer's account would exhaust the entire statutory allowance at once and leave no extension available; Chippewa County WI 12-month data center moratorium (2026) (12 months) and Town of Janesville WI data center moratorium (2026) (12 months) sit within the base allowance. It also independently corroborates, from a statutory rather than litigation-risk direction, the 12-to-18-month figure given by Henderson, Nevada's city attorney (Henderson NV rejects data center moratorium, pursues code changes (2026)). THIS IS AN ADMINISTRATOR'S CHARACTERISATION OF STATE LAW, NOT A CITATION \u2014 the underlying Wisconsin statute is not named in the source and should be identified before the ceiling is treated as settled.