Twinsburg

Twinsburg is a city of about 20,000 people in Summit County, Ohio, in the suburban belt southeast of Cleveland, within the PJM Interconnection grid territory.

Twinsburg, Ohio passed a unanimous one-year data-centre ban in late April 2026, becoming one of the first US municipalities to act within the same week as Seattle's emergency moratorium, the Virginia Court of Appeals ruling, and Loudoun County's by-right zoning change. The unanimity of the vote, all council members in favour, signals the low political risk of a data-centre ban at the city level, where there is no governor's economic-development calculation to weigh against community concerns.

Twinsburg sits in a region with available industrial land, Midwest grid connectivity, and lower electricity costs than the coasts, features that had made it a candidate for data-centre development proposals. The ban removes it from the active pipeline for at least a year.

Twinsburg's action illustrates the template-drafting dynamic: Good Jobs First documents that bill language repeating across local bans is coordinated, suggesting Twinsburg's ordinance was not written in isolation but as part of a broader community-rights network effort to populate local policy calendars simultaneously with state-level bills.

The Twinsburg-Ypsilanti pairing set an early template for local pushback that spread nationally. As of 6 July 2026, roughly a third of Indiana's counties have moved to restrict data centres through outright bans, ordinances or moratoriums, mixing zoning freezes with utility-side conditions in the same combination of tools Twinsburg and Ypsilanti tested that April.