Sunbury, in Delaware County, Ohio, adopted a data-center zoning exclusion on April 15, 2026. Its status in this snapshot is enacted.
The record reads: "On April 15, 2026, Sunbury City Council unanimously passed a moratorium on data centers effective until January 31, 2027, pausing the proposed $2 billion AWS data center project at the city's 1,200-acre Business and Technology Park between… (datacentertracker.org)."
Details
| Action | Class | Status | Date | MW threshold | Scope | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoning exclusion | restriction | enacted | April 15, 2026 | not county-wide | datacentertracker.org |
Jurisdiction type: municipality. County: Delaware County. Dataset: datacentertracker. Snapshot August 15, 2026; documented actions, not a census.
Elsewhere in Delaware County
Ohio context
Ohio has 89 documented local actions across 82 jurisdictions in this snapshot. At the state level, the state has an incentive rollback (in force, May 27, 2026) and AEP Ohio territory has a large-load tariff (in force, July 9, 2025).
A town that says no to a data center gives up local tax revenue, not jobs: one large campus pays $2M to $90M a year depending on the tax regime, against roughly 50 permanent jobs. The parent piece prices it and lists the conditions that beat a ban.