Marshall Councilman Tells County of 18-Month Data Center Moratorium

Clark County Board | August 21, 2026

Article Summary: Marshall City Councilman Warren LeFever used the public comment period at the Clark County Board’s Aug. 21, 2026, meeting to inform county officials that the Marshall City Council has passed a resolution imposing an 18-month moratorium on data centers. The county board took no action and recorded no discussion of the matter.

Marshall Data Center Moratorium Key Points:

LeFever told the board the Marshall City Council passed a resolution for a moratorium on data centers for 18 months.

He also said Marshall is working on updating its emergency preparedness plan.

The county board took no action, and no data center item appeared on the posted county agenda.

The minutes record no resolution number, no effective date and no scope for the Marshall measure.

CLARK COUNTY — The Clark County Board on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, was told during its public comment period that the City of Marshall has placed an 18-month moratorium on data centers.

Warren LeFever, a Marshall city councilman, informed the board that the Marshall City Council passed a resolution for a moratorium on data centers for 18 months, according to the minutes. LeFever also said Marshall is working on updating its emergency preparedness plan. He is listed in the meeting’s attendance record as representing the Marshall City Council.

A development moratorium of this kind generally pauses local approvals for a defined category of project for a set period, typically to give a local government time to write or revise its own regulations. What Marshall’s resolution actually does is not described in the Clark County record: the minutes give no resolution number, no adoption date, no effective date, no description of what the moratorium covers or exempts, and no statement of why the council acted.

County Took No Action

The board neither voted nor, according to the minutes, discussed the subject. Public comment is item 5 on the county board’s standing agenda, ahead of claims and the highway report, and the Aug. 21 posted agenda contained no data center item under New Business, Old Business or Appointments. The minutes record no questions from board members and no response from the chair, and the item does not reappear anywhere else in the proceedings.

The record is likewise silent on the questions a county reader would ask next. It does not say whether any data center has been proposed in Marshall or anywhere in Clark County, whether the county has received an inquiry, or whether the county board has any interest in a similar measure for unincorporated land. Those are matters for follow-up with the City of Marshall and the county, not matters the Aug. 21 minutes can answer.

Marshall is the Clark County seat, and the county board meets at the Clark County Courthouse at 501 Archer Ave. in Marshall. County and city decisions on large-scale development routinely intersect at the edges of the city, which makes a city-level moratorium a matter of direct interest to the county board even when no county action is on the table.

LeFever was one of several outside officials and guests at the meeting. The attendance record also lists representatives of the Clark County Health Department, the Clark County Extension, IBEW 725 and Lincoln Trail Solar. The minutes do not connect any of those attendees to any agenda item, and no statement from any of them is recorded.

The board’s next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 17, 2026, at 8:00 a.m. for budget hearings.