Lancaster County

Moratoriums and bans

1. Sept. 10, 2026 Lancaster County: Regulations (task forces proposed). Commissioners discussed two task forces, on energy and water and on zoning, with members from LES, NPPD and the chamber of commerce, aiming for a plan by year's end. (KOLN 10/11 NOW, Sept. 10, 2026)

Updates, newest first

1. Oct. 5, 2026 Monolith-Crusoe data center, Olive Creek campus, Hallam · The Hallam Village Board approved the zoning for the data center after about an hour of discussion. (KOLN (via WOWT), Oct. 5, 2026)
2. Sept. 10, 2026 Sagebrush Infrastructure Partners land options west of Hallam · Lancaster County commissioners discussed forming two data center task forces, one on energy and water and one on zoning, aiming for a plan by year's end. (KOLN 10/11 NOW, Sept. 10, 2026)
3. Sept. 10, 2026 Lancaster County: Regulations (task forces proposed) · Commissioners discussed two task forces, on energy and water and on zoning, with members from LES, NPPD and the chamber of commerce, aiming for a plan by year's end. (KOLN 10/11 NOW, Sept. 10, 2026)
4. Aug. 27, 2026 Sagebrush Infrastructure Partners land options west of Hallam · KOLN reported documents showing landowners had optioned more than 1,500 acres, worth more than $8 million, to Sagebrush, mostly along Southwest 58th Street near NPPD's Sheldon station. (KOLN 10/11 NOW, Aug. 27, 2026)
5. Aug. 27, 2026 Monolith-Crusoe data center, Olive Creek campus, Hallam · Crusoe and Monolith held a second town hall; the village board had delayed its vote. (KOLN 10/11 NOW, Aug. 27, 2026)
6. July 23, 2026 Monolith-Crusoe data center, Olive Creek campus, Hallam · At a crowded town hall, Monolith described 35 MW, 15 jobs and water use of 770,000 gallons a year or less; residents worried the zoning change could open farmland to more industry. (KOLN 10/11 NOW, July 23, 2026)
7. July 10, 2026 Monolith-Crusoe data center, Olive Creek campus, Hallam · Monolith confirmed plans for container-sized data center units on about 10 acres of its Olive Creek site, with Crusoe as the expected partner, in place of a larger carbon black and ammonia expansion. (KOLN 10/11 NOW, July 10, 2026)
8. June 2026 Sagebrush Infrastructure Partners land options west of Hallam · Israel-based Stark Power agreed to buy Sagebrush Infrastructure Partners, describing it as a developer of hyperscale data centers paired with natural gas plants and citing a 5.6 GW U.S. pipeline. (Orrick (deal announcement), June 2026)
9. Feb. 17, 2026 Google Lincoln data center (Agate LLC) · The Lincoln Journal Star reported the campus was effectively online, made up 11% of LES retail revenue and had driven 423 MW of new wind generation. (Lincoln Journal Star, Feb. 17, 2026)
10. Nov. 30, 2024 Google Lincoln data center (Agate LLC) · Google said the Lincoln campus, on roughly 580 acres, was still under construction. (Nebraska Examiner (via KRVN), Nov. 30, 2024)
11. Sept. 26, 2024 Google Lincoln data center (Agate LLC) · A Lincoln business group asked city leaders to keep the Google campus from raising other customers' power rates; an LES planner said the utility's build-out would serve Google without unduly burdening existing customers. (KOLN 10/11 NOW, Sept. 26, 2024)
12. Aug. 2023 Google Lincoln data center (Agate LLC) · Google publicly confirmed the Lincoln project, described as a $600 million data center, with the mayor welcoming it. (KOLN 10/11 NOW, Sept. 26, 2024)
13. Nov. 5, 2019 Google Lincoln data center (Agate LLC) · Agate LLC, a company with a Delaware address on its state filings, closed on about 600 acres northwest of the 56th Street exit for more than $18.6 million, AP reported. (KLKN-TV (Associated Press), Nov. 5, 2019)
14. Sept. 9, 2019 Google Lincoln data center (Agate LLC) · The Lincoln City Council gave final approval to annex about 576 acres and rezone them from agriculture to an employment-center district for a 2 million-square-foot data center whose owner was not named. (KLKN-TV, Sept. 9, 2019)

Statewide

LB1010 (passed 49-0 on April 10, 2026; signed April 14) creates the Large Load Customer Regulation Act: every public power supplier must set standards for connecting new loads above 20 MW at one site, including disclosure of competing site requests and backup generation, a study fee of $50,000 or $1,000 per MW (whichever is greater), proof of site control and financial commitments for new transmission and generation, and a procedure to buy demand response and to order curtailment or backup generation in a grid emergency. Suppliers may set or negotiate large-load rates aimed at keeping costs off other customers. (Nebraska Legislature, April 14, 2026; Nebraska Legislature, April 17, 2026) LB1010 also defines a data center as a facility with peak demand of 10 MW or more and requires its owner or operator to report each year by Sept. 30 to the Department of Water, Energy, and Environment and the Legislature's Natural Resources Committee (owners and developers, size, address and county, annual electricity demand, annual water use, sales tax exemptions, ImagiNE and Nebraska Advantage incentives, efficiency measures, renewable commitments and service life), to pay all decommissioning costs and to sign a community benefit agreement with affected communities. (Nebraska Legislature, April 14, 2026; Omaha Public Power District, April 2026) LB1261 (passed 33-16 on April 10, 2026; signed April 14; introduced at the Governor's request) bars consumer-owned utilities from taking by eminent domain a privately owned power plant built to serve a single industrial customer adding more than 1,000 MW, if the plant sits on or next to the customer's site, is approved by the Nebraska Power Review Board, is covered by a contract with the local utilities that keeps their exclusive retail service rights, and serves only that customer unless the utilities agree otherwise; the customer must pay all grid costs it causes. The protection applies to contracts signed by Dec. 31, 2031. (Nebraska Legislature, April 14, 2026; Nebraska Legislature, April 17, 2026) LB901 (signed April 7, 2026) repealed, effective July 1, 2026, the sales and use tax exemption in section 77-2704.62 for property a data center operator buys in Nebraska for use at locations outside the state, and removes the matching personal property tax exemption from Jan. 1, 2027. The same repeal was part of LB1131 (Bostar), which the Revenue Committee advanced 8-0 with an amendment. (Nebraska Legislature, April 7, 2026; Nebraska Department of Revenue, 2026; Nebraska Legislature, 2026; Nebraska Legislature, Revenue Committee, Feb. 4, 2026) The ImagiNE Nebraska Act (Neb. Rev. Stat. 77-6818 and 77-6831, enacted by LB1107 in 2020 and amended since, including by LB1317 in 2024) lists data processing and hosting (NAICS 518210) as a qualifying business. Qualifying firms can receive refunds of state and local sales and use taxes on project purchases and a personal property tax exemption for all data center property once they invest at least $5 million and add 30 jobs, or invest at least $50 million while paying an average of 150% of the state's average wage and offering health coverage. (Nebraska Legislature, 2026; Nebraska Legislature, 2026) LB663 (signed Feb. 24, 2026) puts deadlines on county conditional use and special exception decisions: planners have 30 days to rule an application complete and 90 days to act on a complete one, the county board then has its own 30- and 90-day windows, and an application left without a decision is deemed granted. Applicants are presumed to comply with other laws unless opponents show otherwise. The Nebraska Association of County Officials said the deadlines would push counties to update their rules, and several counties adopted data center moratoriums in the following months. (Nebraska Legislature, Feb. 24, 2026; KOLN 10/11 NOW, June 15, 2026; Flatwater Free Press, May 22, 2026) Large-load rates: Nebraska's electric utilities are all publicly owned, and LB1010 lets each public power supplier set or negotiate its own large-load rates; no state utility commission docket was found. OPPD has billed data centers under its industrial Rate 261M; no OPPD, Lincoln Electric System or NPPD large-load rate schedule adopted under LB1010 was found in the sources reviewed (not yet checked in board records). (Omaha Public Power District, June 2025; Nebraska Legislature, April 14, 2026; Courier Nebraska, June 17, 2026) Nebraska data centers →