A 5-0 vote. Standing room only. One year to study the impacts before a single shovel goes in the ground. This is what happens when residents show up.
In a unanimous 5-0 vote on May 26, 2026, the Citrus County Board of County Commissioners approved a one-year moratorium on all rezoning applications that could lead to data centers in the county.
Dozens of residents lined up for public comment ahead of the vote, furious about a planned 800-acre facility by the Deltona Corporation near the intersection of U.S. 41 and North Lecanto Highway in Holder. Commission chambers were standing room only.
The moratorium gives county staff 12 months to study data center impacts on groundwater, the electrical grid, and quality of life — and to draft permanent regulations before any project moves forward.
Letters from residents like you are exactly what pushed Citrus County commissioners to act. Is a data center proposed near your county?
Send a Letter to Your Commissioners Full Citrus County Tracker →Community members organized ahead of the commission meeting, spread word through neighborhood networks, and showed up in numbers. Formal public comment letters — the kind that become part of the official public record — gave commissioners the political cover to act unanimously.
Florida’s Commerce Secretary Alex Kelly had already come out sharply against a similar Polk County proposal in April, warning that data center projects present “significant risks to Central Florida’s energy capacity, water resources, and transportation infrastructure.”
Citrus is the second Florida county in 2026 to pass a moratorium, following Nassau County’s first reading on May 11. It joins a growing national wave: Maine passed a statewide moratorium, 12+ states have filed moratorium bills, and $156 billion in data center projects have been blocked or stalled by community opposition since 2024.
Every commissioner who votes for a moratorium makes it easier for the next commissioner in the next county to do the same. Your county could be next — or the next to get a 1,200-acre rezoning application.
Don’t wait for the application. Send a preemptive letter to your commissioners before a developer files. It takes under 2 minutes and becomes part of the public record.
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