Prince George's County

Moratoriums and bans

1. July 7, 2026 Prince George's County: Moratorium. The County Council approved a two-year moratorium on new data center development, to end sooner if the county adopts a zoning framework; Maryland Matters (from WTOP) reported that it extends an earlier council pause. (Prince George's County Council, June 30, 2026; WJLA (7News), July 7, 2026; Maryland Matters (WTOP News story), July 8, 2026)

Updates, newest first

1. July 7, 2026 Brightseat Tech Park · The County Council approved a two-year moratorium on new data center development, as reporting noted the county was trying to stop the Landover Mall proposal. (Prince George's County Council, June 30, 2026; WJLA (7News), July 7, 2026; Maryland Matters (WTOP News story), July 8, 2026)
2. July 7, 2026 Prince George's County: Moratorium · The County Council approved a two-year moratorium on new data center development, to end sooner if the county adopts a zoning framework; Maryland Matters (from WTOP) reported that it extends an earlier council pause. (Prince George's County Council, June 30, 2026; WJLA (7News), July 7, 2026; Maryland Matters (WTOP News story), July 8, 2026)
3. 2025 Brightseat Tech Park · A council-created Qualified Data Center Task Force (CR-016-2025) issued its final report on siting and impacts. (Prince George's County Council, Oct. 25, 2026)
4. March 14, 2024 Brightseat Tech Park · The Prince George's County Planning Board voted 5-0 to approve preliminary plan 4-23024 for three parcels and 4,132,500 square feet of industrial development on 86.62 acres. (Prince George's County Planning Board (M-NCPPC), April 4, 2024; Prince George's County Planning Department (M-NCPPC), March 7, 2024)
5. Feb. 9, 2024 Brightseat Tech Park · The developer's presentation described five data center buildings, about 4.1 million square feet in all, with 820 MW of total site capacity. (Brightseat Associates (posted by the City of Glenarden), Feb. 9, 2024)

Statewide

Chapter 640 of 2020 exempts equipment bought for a qualified data center from the state sales and use tax (the operator must invest at least $5 million, or $2 million in a Tier I area, and create at least five jobs) and lets counties and towns reduce or remove property tax on data center equipment; a 2026 bill to repeal both (HB 560) was introduced. (Maryland Department of Legislative Services, 2026; Maryland General Assembly, Oct. 25, 2026) The Critical Infrastructure Streamlining Act of 2024 (Chapter 411, SB 474) exempts on-site emergency backup generators at qualifying data centers from the Public Service Commission's certificate of public convenience and necessity under set conditions; it also changes how corporate income tax from certain new data centers is distributed. (Maryland General Assembly, May 9, 2024) SB 116 of 2025 (enacted over the governor's veto as Chapter 10 of the 2025 special session) requires a state study of data centers' environmental, energy and economic impacts, due Sept. 1, 2026; Frederick County said in mid-September that it had not yet been completed. (Maryland Department of Legislative Services, 2025; Maryland General Assembly, Oct. 25, 2026; Frederick County Executive, Sept. 14, 2026) The Next Generation Energy Act of 2025 required each utility to file a separate large-load rate schedule by Sept. 1, 2026 so other customers do not carry the cost of serving them; the Utility RELIEF Act (HB 1532, Chapter 353 of 2026) lowered the large-load threshold from 100 MW to 25 MW, ordered a Public Service Commission registry of large loads by July 1, 2027, and barred data centers in most Baltimore City tax increment financing districts. (Maryland Department of Legislative Services, 2026; Maryland General Assembly, Oct. 25, 2026) Maryland data centers →