Will Louisiana enact a data center moratorium by December 31, 2027?

- [2026-09-19] No statewide Louisiana data center moratorium had been proposed or enacted as of this date, per a policy tracker citing Louisiana's economic development site; the state is rated "regulatory risk 3/10" and "Tier 1 hot" for data-center friendliness. https://thirstygrid.com/la/policy - [2026-09-17] The Louisiana Legislature's 2026 Regular Session has adjourned with no data-center special session called, and the convening date for the 2027 session was not yet set; both chambers are Republican-controlled and the 2026 Regular Session has adjourned with no data-center special session called, and no live data-center bill was identified, with the 2027 session convening date unknown. https://thirstygrid.com/la/policy - [2026-09-16] The Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) unanimously let Cleco Power's application tied to Applied Digital's $3.6B Rapides Parish data center proceed via an expedited "Lightning Initiative" pathway, without a final ALJ recommendation — a sign regulators are facilitating rather than restricting data centers. https://thirstygrid.com/la/policy - [2026-09-14] Caddo Parish Commission rejected a procedural move to advance a data-center construction pause (Resolution 53), following a 6–4 vote on 2026-09-01; the parish attorney stated an ordinance, not a resolution, would be legally required to enact any moratorium. https://thirstygrid.com/la/policy - [2026-08-31] A Caddo Parish Commission vote (6-4, 2 absent) rejected a resolution asking the Planning and Zoning Commission to consider a pause on data center construction ; most of unincorporated Caddo Parish has no zoning, so Amazon data center projects can proceed without local restrictions. https://savrn.com/data-center-moratorium-tracker - [2026-08-25] Axios New Orleans reported the city's local data-center construction ban (Interim Zoning District) will not expire until mid-2027, with CPC zoning recommendations going to City Council at its discretion — this is a local, not statewide, measure. https://thirstygrid.com/la/policy - [2026-06-26] Gov. Jeff Landry signed an executive order creating the "Ratepayer and Community Protection Initiative," directing Louisiana Economic Development to set criteria for power-intensive projects while continuing to promote data centers; advocacy groups called it largely symbolic, and it does not constitute a statutory moratorium. https://thirstygrid.com/la/policy - [~2026-08 (published article)] Gov. Landry publicly rejected the idea of a moratorium, stating "We don't need a moratorium when we can have responsible growth," said Gov. Jeff Landry , contrasting Louisiana's stance with states tightening data-center rules. https://www.shreveportbossieradvocate.com/news/state_politics/data-center-politics-louisiana-meta/article_14917b28-b156-50ff-b9f7-b1e56a3bd66b.html - [2026-04-06] St. Charles Parish Council denied (3-5) a proposed data-center moratorium ordinance, after an amendment shortening it from 12 to 8 months passed but the overall measure still failed; the parish instead adopted zoning/infrastructure-funding rules in June 2026. https://www.scpinformer.com/topics/data-centers - [2026-01-28] New Orleans City Council enacted a one-year local moratorium (Interim Zoning District) on new data-center development — this is a city-level, not statewide, action and explicitly would not satisfy the statewide requirement in this market's resolution criteria. https://www.wwno.org/economy/2026-01-29/new-orleans-city-council-bans-data-center-development-for-a-year-heres-why (via https://thirstygrid.com/la/policy) - [2026-11-03 (upcoming)] Louisiana holds a general election filling two of five LPSC seats (Districts 1 and 5), which will shape the PSC majority ruling on large-load tariffs in 2027; no candidate is reported as campaigning for a moratorium, and Republican candidates in both races have voiced support for continued data-center growth with modest ratepayer/environmental caveats. https://thirstygrid.com/la/policy - [2026-09-30 (aggregator snapshot)] A multi-state moratorium tracker lists Louisiana's only "statewide action" as Executive Order 26-058 (tax-incentive conditions), explicitly categorized apart from "true moratoriums" enacted in New York, Texas, and Oregon; "Ohio, Nebraska, Nevada, and Louisiana focused on rolling back or conditioning tax incentives" rather than banning construction. https://www.electricchoice.com/datacenters/moratoriums/ BOTTOM LINE: As of early October 2026, Louisiana has no statewide data-center moratorium bill pending, no special legislative session called, a Republican governor and legislature actively opposed to a moratorium, and every attempted pause so far (Caddo Parish, St. Charles Parish) has been local and has failed; only New Orleans' city-level ban has succeeded. This strongly suggests no statewide enactment is imminent, though the 2027 Regular Session (convening date not yet announced) remains a window before the 2027-12-31 deadline. NOT FOUND: The exact 2027 Louisiana legislative session convening date; any pending or pre-filed statewide data-center moratorium bill for the 2027 session; any statement from legislative leadership (House/Senate) on data-center moratorium plans.

- [2026-03-13] Across the 2026 legislative cycle, state data center moratoriums faced hurdles in 2026 as 14 bills across 11 states stalled, with none of the statewide proposals passing their originating chamber as of that date , showing enactment is historically rare and slow even where introduced. https://www.multistate.us/insider/2026/3/13/local-data-center-regulations-gain-ground-as-state-bills-falter - [2026-07-01] New York became the sole exception: the New York State Legislature passed the Responsible Data Center Development Act, imposing a one-year moratorium on state permits for new large data centers with peak demand of 20 megawatts or more , and this was reported as the first-in-the-nation statewide moratorium if signed. https://www.dlapiper.com/en-us/insights/publications/2026/07/new-york-state-legislature-passes-first-in-the-nation-data-center-moratorium - [2026-04] Maine's attempt illustrates the fragility of this reference class: a one-year/20MW moratorium bill (LD 307) was reported as both "passed" by one tracker and separately noted that Governor Janet Mills vetoed the bill, stating she supports a temporary moratorium and would have signed it with an exemption for the Androscoggin Mill site — conflicting accounts suggest even "successful" statewide bills can still fail enactment. https://www.rockinst.org/blog/updates-on-the-cloud-more-moratoriums-on-data-centers/ - [2026-09-29] A tracker summarizing nationwide state action lists eleven governors (Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Nebraska, and Louisiana) signing executive orders or directives rather than statutory moratoriums, and Louisiana's own executive-type measure only requires data centers to fully fund power and infrastructure before receiving state tax incentives — explicitly not a moratorium under the question's criteria. https://www.electricchoice.com/datacenters/moratoriums/ - [2026-09-19] A dedicated Louisiana-specific tracker states plainly: "Louisiana (statewide): No statewide moratorium proposed or enacted as of 2026-09-19" , confirming zero statewide bills have even been formally introduced as of late September 2026. https://thirstygrid.com/la/policy - [2026-09-19] The same source notes both chambers are Republican-controlled and the 2026 Regular Session has adjourned with no data-center special session called, and no live data-center bill was identified, with the 2027 session convening date unknown at that time . https://thirstygrid.com/la/policy - [2026-10-01] Louisiana's next regular legislative session (the only normal legislative vehicle for enactment before the market deadline) is confirmed to convene April 12, 2027 and adjourn by June 10, 2027 — "The 2027 Regular Legislative Session will convene at noon on Monday, April 12, 2027... Final Adjournment no later than 6:00 pm on Thursday, June 10, 2027" — leaving roughly six months after adjournment before the December 31, 2027 deadline for a bill to pass and be signed. https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Home.aspx - [2026-09-01/14] The only Louisiana sub-state moratorium attempts in 2026 (Caddo Parish, St. Charles Parish) both failed: Caddo Parish Commission rejected a resolution 6-4 to even begin considering a pause, with the parish attorney noting an ordinance, not a resolution, would be required , and St. Charles Parish rejected a proposed eight-month moratorium, instead adopting infrastructure-funding regulations — indicating weak local-level momentum that would need to translate to state level. https://thirstygrid.com/la/policy - [2026-10-01] Louisiana's governor is firmly pro-data-center: Governor Jeff Landry (R) is strongly pro-data-center, with Louisiana Economic Development actively recruiting hyperscalers; his Ratepayer and Community Protection Initiative executive order is the sole hedging move , suggesting any moratorium bill reaching his desk would face a high veto risk even if it cleared the GOP-controlled legislature. https://thirstygrid.com/la/policy - [2026-02-20] The broader reference class: in 2026, more than 300 state data center legislation bills were filed across 30+ states in just six weeks, marking a shift from incentive-focused policies to regulatory oversight , yet only one state (New York) has advanced a statewide moratorium to the governor's desk, a success rate well under 5% among introduced moratorium bills nationally. BOTTOM LINE: The national base rate for statewide data-center moratorium bills becoming law is extremely low (effectively one success — New York — out of dozens of bills attempted in 2026, with Maine's veto underscoring even passed bills can fail), and Louisiana specifically has no statewide bill even introduced, a GOP trifecta government actively courting data centers, and a next regular session that only runs April–June 2027, leaving a narrow window before the December 31, 2027 deadline. NOT FOUND: No evidence of any pre-filed or drafted Louisiana statewide moratorium bill for the 2027 session; no polling or formal odds/forecasts specific to Louisiana enacting a statewide moratorium; could not confirm whether a special session might be called before 2027 regular session.

YES means: Louisiana's Legislature passes, and Gov. Landry signs (or the Legislature overrides a veto, or the measure otherwise becomes law under the state constitution), a statewide law or constitutional provision prohibiting/suspending approval, permitting, construction, interconnection, or operation of all new data centers (or all new centers over 100MW) before 2027-12-31. - [2026-10-01] The only viable legislative vehicle is the 2027 Regular Session, confirmed to convene April 12, 2027 and adjourn by June 10, 2027, which still leaves roughly six months before the Dec 31, 2027 deadline for a bill passed in that window to be signed. https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Home.aspx - [2026-05-07] A "bipartisan wave of resistance" is documented in Baton Rouge: Louisiana legislators filed at least 24 AI-related bills in the 2026 session seeking to restrict AI technology, with nine still moving through committee process midway through the session, showing legislative appetite for tech-restriction bills exists even in this GOP trifecta. https://lailluminator.com/2026/05/07/data-center-2/ - [2026-08-19] Backlash has continued past the New Orleans moratorium's enactment: a new data-center proposal in New Orleans East triggered fresh City Council motions, and Mayor Helena Moreno publicly announced her opposition to the development, indicating sustained, escalating local political pressure rather than a one-off event. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/one-year-data-center-moratorium-introduced-in-new-orleans-louisiana/ - [2026-08 approx.] Following the statewide pushback, local officials in Caddo Parish introduced resolutions "to issue a moratorium on data centers and to require data centers to produce environmental impact studies," showing repeated, renewed local attempts even after earlier failures. https://www.shreveportbossieradvocate.com/news/state_politics/data-center-politics-louisiana-meta/article_14917b28-b156-50ff-b9f7-b1e56a3bd66b.html - [2026-09-29] Nationally, the trend toward statewide moratoria is accelerating via the legislative session route: Oregon's governor's September directive freezing state land for data centers "supports statewide moratorium in 2027 legislature," and Minnesota has a statewide moratorium bill (HF 4888) already in committee — demonstrating that 2027 legislative sessions are an active, proven vector for statewide moratorium bills elsewhere, a template Louisiana legislators could replicate. https://www.electricchoice.com/datacenters/moratoriums/ - [2026-09-29] New Mexico lawmakers (a comparable red/purple-tinged legislature analogue) have explicitly announced plans to introduce a statewide moratorium bill in their 2027 session, and cite a Gallup finding that about "63% of Republicans surveyed were against local data center construction," underscoring that opposition to data centers is not confined to Democratic strongholds and could pressure even a Republican-controlled Louisiana legislature to act. https://www.kob.com/news/proposed-moratorium-on-data-centers-to-come-up-in-2027-legislative-session/ - [2026-09-18] Ratepayer anger is documented at the state regulatory level: dozens of residents spoke out against Meta's $50 billion data center at a Public Service Commission meeting, and the backlash followed a consultant's finding that a proposed Entergy transaction would effectively shift costs onto residential ratepayers — a grievance that could be channeled into a statewide legislative moratorium push once the 2027 session convenes. https://www.shreveportbossieradvocate.com/news/state_politics/data-center-politics-louisiana-meta/article_14917b28-b156-50ff-b9f7-b1e56a3bd66b.html - [2026-09-30] Even the tracker cataloguing Louisiana as merely "Active" with only an executive order (26-058) and "None" statewide moratorium bills still flags Louisiana for close monitoring alongside states like Michigan where "Governor opposes moratorium" yet a bill remains "in play," indicating trackers consider a Louisiana reversal plausible enough to watch rather than foreclosed. https://programs.com/resources/data-center-moratoriums-tracker/ BOTTOM LINE: The strongest realistic path to YES is a statewide moratorium bill emerging from grassroots/ratepayer backlash (Caddo Parish repeat attempts, New Orleans East controversy, PSC public outcry, 24 AI-restriction bills already filed in 2026) that gets introduced and fast-tracked in the April–June 2027 Regular Session, mirroring Oregon's and New Mexico's 2027-session moratorium pushes — leaving a real, if narrow, window before the Dec 31, 2027 deadline even against a pro-data-center governor and GOP legislature. NOT FOUND: No confirmed pre-filed Louisiana statewide moratorium bill text for the 2027 session; no statement from any sitting Louisiana legislator (as opposed to New Mexico's) committing to introduce such a bill; no polling data specific to Louisiana voters on data-center moratoria.

YES means: Louisiana enacts a statutory or constitutional statewide moratorium (meeting the resolution's "all new data centers" or ">100MW subset" test) via gubernatorial signature, veto override, no-signature lapse, or referendum, at any point between 2026-09-29 and 2027-12-31. - [2026-10-01] Louisiana's constitution classifies 2027 as an odd-numbered year, and the Legislature's official session calendar confirms the 2027 Regular Session is a limited-scope "fiscal" session, not a general session. https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Home.aspx - [2025] Louisiana Revised Statutes codify that All regular sessions convening in odd-numbered years shall convene at noon on the second Monday in April. The legislature shall meet in such a session for not more than forty-five legislative days. and critically no matter intended to have the effect of law, except a measure proposing a suspension of law, shall be considered on third reading and final passage in either house after six o'clock in the evening of the forty-second legislative day or fifty-seventh calendar day, whichever occurs first, except by a favorable record vote of two-thirds of the elected members of each house. - [2023] A session wrap confirms the practical effect of this rule structure: in the last comparable odd-year session, odd years are limited "fiscal" sessions; legislators could file unlimited fiscal bills, unlimited local bills, and only 5 general bills. A statewide data-center moratorium is a general regulatory (non-fiscal) matter, so each of the 144 legislators is capped at five such bills total for the entire 2027 session, and must compete with every other non-fiscal priority (privacy, tort reform, etc.) for one of those slots. - [2025] Separately, a 2025 constitutional-amendment effort to simply raise the odd-year general-bill cap from five to seven failed to reach the ballot, per the engrossed Senate Bill 20 text and Ballotpedia's "Not on the ballot" listing of the Louisiana Odd-Year Legislation Amendment — indicating no appetite even for marginal loosening of this exact procedural constraint. https://ballotpedia.org/Louisiana_2026_ballot_measures - [2026-10-01] A governor's office explainer confirms the only other normal legislative vehicle before the deadline — a special session — may be called by one of two ways, either by the governor or the legislature... can only last for a limited amount of time but no more than 30 days, and bills must stay within the proclamation's subject scope; Gov. Landry (who publicly rejected a moratorium per the Aug 2026 reporting already surfaced) controls the most common trigger for such a call. - [2026-09-18 est.] A newer legislative tracker (post-dating the colleagues' Sept 19 ThirstyGrid snapshot) still lists no statewide Louisiana moratorium bill, showing only regulatory bills: Louisiana House Bill 1206 would establish new permitting and reporting requirements for data centers that consume more than 100 million gallons of water annually... data center operators would need to obtain permits from the state Department of Environmental Quality before construction or operation — a conditions-based permitting scheme, not a default prohibition, and thus would not itself satisfy the resolution criteria even if enacted. - [2026 tracker, updated ~2026-09-18] That same bill (HB 1206) is reported as having stalled and carried over rather than passing in 2026: a national tracker lists Louisiana's "Statewide moratorium bills (2025–26)" column as "None" and separately notes Statewide: HB 1515 (1 MW+) carried over to 2027 for a related but distinct large-load/tax bill, underscoring that Louisiana's legislature has not advanced any bill meeting this market's moratorium definition even after a full regular session plus a partial fiscal session's worth of filings. - [2026-09-30] A national moratorium tracker's current classification places Louisiana only among states that focused on rolling back or conditioning tax incentives , explicitly distinct from the "true moratorium" category (New York, Texas, Oregon), reinforcing that the state's entire 2026 policy output — even its most aggressive measure — falls outside the resolution's qualifying definition. - [2026-08-25 / ongoing] The one enacted Louisiana moratorium of any kind remains New Orleans' local Interim Zoning District, which per Axios reporting already in the record runs only to mid-2027 and is capped at the city level — structurally incapable of satisfying the "throughout the state" requirement, and no parish or city moratorium has even survived a single vote elsewhere (Caddo, St. Charles both failed). - [2026] A local activism guide used by advocates lobbying the Legislature itself flags the mechanical hurdle facing any 2027 moratorium push: In odd-numbered years, we have Fiscal Sessions in which bills dealing with money matters may be introduced. During a Fiscal Session, each member may still file bills that are not about money matters, but they can only file five per legislator. BOTTOM LINE: Beyond the GOP trifecta's pro-data-center posture already documented, Louisiana's own constitution confines the only regular 2027 legislative vehicle to a 45-legislative-day fiscal session in which a statewide moratorium bill is one of just five permitted non-fiscal filings per legislator, must clear floor votes before a 42-legislative-day/57-calendar-day deadline (or need a two-thirds supermajority after), and would still require a governor who has publicly rejected moratoriums to sign it — compounding the procedural case for NO on top of the political and historical-base-rate case. NOT FOUND: Any Louisiana legislator's 2026–2027 public statement announcing intent to prefile a statewide moratorium bill for the 2027 fiscal session; confirmation of HB 1206's final 2026 disposition (died vs. formally carried over) and whether it would count as "local/special" (unlimited) rather than "general" (5-bill-capped) under Joint Rule 20; any indication a special session call covering data centers is being sought by legislative leadership.