At least 40 US jurisdictions vote on data centre measures on election day, 18 of them in Ohio
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The Washington Post reports that at least 40 jurisdictions across the United States are voting on 3 November 2026 on measures related to data centres, many of them temporary or permanent bans. Most are in Ohio, where 18 cities and towns will decide whether to restrict or permit data centres in some way. They range from Joliet Township, Illinois (a city of 85,000) to Monroe Township in Ohio's Adams County (624 people), and about half a dozen municipalities in Maine and Illinois are also voting. The newspaper cites a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll in which significant majorities of Americans oppose building new data centres. Results were not yet known when this was published.
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