Scope
A City of Foley ordinance establishing a temporary six-month moratorium that, according to the city, restricts the acceptance, processing, approval and consideration of applications for data centers, Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining facilities, server farms and similar technically oriented uses, facilities and operations. The city reports that the City Council approved the ordinance on final reading on 8 September 2026. The city's announcement does not give the ordinance number or text.
- Geographic scope
- City of Foley, Alabama
- Jurisdiction
- Local
- Authority type
- Local government
- Issuing authority
- Foley City Council
Dates
- Adopted
- 8 September 2026
- Effective
- Effective status not verified
- Scheduled expiration
- See completion condition
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- The city's 9 September 2026 announcement says the ordinance 'is now in effect for six months'. No effective day or calendar end date is printed, so no end date is computed.
- Source document
- 9 September 2026
- Last checked
- 30 October 2026
Summary
The City of Foley reports that its City Council voted on Tuesday, 8 September 2026 to approve on final reading an ordinance establishing a six-month moratorium. The city says the moratorium restricts accepting, processing, approving and considering applications for data centers, cryptocurrency mining facilities, server farms and similar uses while the city studies impacts and updates its regulations. The announcement does not print the day the ordinance took effect, so no end date is recorded here. It is a temporary pause on applications, not a permanent prohibition.
What this does not establish
- The evidence is the city's news release dated 9 September 2026. The ordinance text, its number and the vote count were not opened.
- The release says the ordinance is now in effect for six months but prints no effective day, so the end of the six-month term is not computed.
- The moratorium also covers cryptocurrency mining facilities, server farms and similar uses, not only data centers.
- The year of the 8 September vote is taken from the release date.
Unresolved questions
- The exact day the ordinance took effect and the resulting end of the six-month term.
- Whether the council extends the moratorium or adopts permanent regulations before the term ends.
Relationships
Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.
- No related action is recorded.
Sources
Primary source: Foley City Council page on cityoffoley.org