Greensboro City Council OKs 6-month data center moratorium

Greensboro City Council OKs 6-month data center moratorium

News ClipWinston-Salem Journal·Greensboro, Guilford County, NC·8/18/2026

The Greensboro City Council enacted a six-month moratorium on large data centers at its recent meeting. The decision, though adopted, faced some public dissent.

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The Greensboro City Council voted to implement a six-month moratorium on the development of large data centers during its Tuesday meeting. This measure temporarily halts new large data center projects within the city. The decision was met with some public criticism, as one individual present at the meeting reportedly called the vote a "farce." The article also briefly referenced an unrelated attempt by Greensboro's crisis communications manager, Eric Chilton, to prevent a WGHP/Fox8 reporter from interviewing Eric Robert.