Every known data center proposal in Florida.
Every pause has an expiration date.
Nineteen Florida jurisdictions have blocked data centers outright or frozen applications while they write rules. Three of those blocks are permanent. The rest are clocks — and when one runs out, the county is back to having no rules at all unless commissioners pass something first.
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Dates reflect the final vote as reported by local outlets and county postings. Some ordinances run from an effective date later than the adoption date, and a board can lift a pause early or extend it. Entries marked date unconfirmed have not been checked against the ordinance text and are shown without a countdown. Corrections — send them here.
Florida's data center rules are being rewritten — right now.
Four bills moved through Florida's 2026 legislative session that create the state's first framework for regulating hyperscale data centers. SB 484 was signed by Gov. DeSantis on May 7, 2026 in Lakeland — “You should not pay one more red cent for electricity because of a hyper-scale data center as an individual,” he said at the signing. The law prohibits utilities from shifting data center infrastructure costs onto residential ratepayers and preserves local zoning authority, but allows state agencies to sign NDAs with developers — hiding project details from the public for up to a year. DeSantis also pushed his “Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights” (SB 482), which passed the Senate 35–2 but died in the House on March 13. He had it added to the April special session call; House Speaker Daniel Perez killed it on the session’s first day, April 28, 2026.
Only one of them became law. SB 484 passed both chambers, was signed May 7 and took effect July 1, 2026 as Chapter 2026-65. It bars utilities from shifting data center infrastructure costs onto residential ratepayers and preserves local zoning authority. The other three are dead. HB 1007 — Rep. Griff Griffitts’ House version, originally hyperscale-restrictive — was laid on the table March 11 and folded into SB 484. SB 1118, a public-records exemption, died on the calendar March 13. HB 1517, the “Florida Data Center Transparency Act,” was never heard by a single committee before the session adjourned. The disclosure requirements and the August 1 compliance deadline it proposed do not exist in Florida law.