Scope
A Lucas County Board of Supervisors resolution, titled as approving a one-year moratorium on accepting or approving any permit applications for data centers, imposes a moratorium immediately on the permitting, construction, or vesting of data centers for the purpose of updating or creating ordinances, policies and procedures related to data center development. For the moratorium, a data center includes commercial crypto mining operations and processing. The resolution states no exceptions and no geographic limit within Lucas County.
- Geographic scope
- Lucas County, Iowa
- Jurisdiction
- Local
- Authority type
- Local government
- Issuing authority
- Lucas County Board of Supervisors
Dates
- Adopted
- 5 August 2026
- Effective
- 5 August 2026
- Scheduled expiration
- See completion condition
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- The resolution's title describes a one-year moratorium; its operative text states no end date and does not say from when the year runs. No end date is stored.
- Source document
- 5 August 2026
- Last checked
- 30 October 2026
Summary
On 5 August 2026 the Lucas County Board of Supervisors approved, with all members voting aye on a group of items, a resolution approving a one-year moratorium on accepting or approving permit applications for data centers. The resolution imposes the moratorium immediately on the permitting, construction or vesting of data centers, including commercial crypto mining operations, while the county updates or creates data center ordinances, policies and procedures. The resolution prints no calendar end date. It is a temporary resolution, not a permanent prohibition.
What this does not establish
- The resolution has no number in the Board minutes; its text is taken from the minutes of 5 August 2026, and the signed original was not reviewed.
- The one-year term appears only in the resolution's title. This record does not calculate an end date because the operative text does not say from when the year runs.
- The resolution does not say whether it applies only in unincorporated areas or how applications already filed are treated.
Unresolved questions
- When the one-year moratorium under the resolution ends, and whether the Board adopts data center ordinances or extends the resolution.
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: Lucas County Board of Supervisors page on lucascounty.iowa.gov