堪萨斯州三城数据中心限令诉诸选票 法院裁定公民提案可上11月选票
堪萨斯州巴特勒县埃尔多拉多市、莱昂县恩波里亚市和富兰克林县渥太华市的选民将在11月大选中就限制数据中心的地方提案投票，法院裁定使这三项公民提案得以留在选票上。据《托皮卡首府日报》10月26日报道，埃尔多拉多和恩波里亚的选票问题是是否禁止峰值电力负荷超过10兆瓦、或日取水量超过10万加仑的“高影响数据中心”，并同时禁止二级和三级电池储能系统；渥太华的提案则只针对电力负荷不低于25兆瓦的“高耗能数据中心”。
这些提案由市民请愿发起，8月起各市与居民就提案能否上选票相互起诉，渥太华正是通过居民起诉市政府的途径保住了选票问题。
全国范围看，11月选票上至少有35项与数据中心有关的地方提案，分布在堪萨斯、加利福尼亚、内华达、佛罗里达、伊利诺伊、俄亥俄、密歇根和威斯康星8个州；堪萨斯与威斯康星并列第三多，俄亥俄最多、有21项，伊利诺伊有7项。2026年已有4座城市投票限制数据中心或否决支持数据中心的提案。
Data Center Limits Go to Voters in Three Kansas Cities as Courts Rule Citizen Initiatives Can Stay on the November Ballot
EL DORADO, Kan. — Voters in El Dorado in Butler County, Emporia in Lyon County and Ottawa in Franklin County will vote in the November general election on local measures limiting data centers, after court rulings kept the three citizen initiatives on the ballot. According to the Topeka Capital-Journal's October 26 report, the El Dorado and Emporia questions ask whether to prohibit 'high impact data centers' requiring a peak electrical load exceeding 10 megawatts or a daily water draw exceeding 100,000 gallons, and also to ban tier 2 and tier 3 battery energy storage systems; Ottawa's measure targets only 'utility-intensive data centers' with an electrical load of at least 25 megawatts.
The measures originated in citizen petitions, and beginning in August the cities and residents sued each other over whether the questions could appear on the ballot; in Ottawa's case, residents suing the city was precisely the path that kept its question.
Nationwide, at least 35 local measures related to data centers will be on November ballots across eight states — Kansas, California, Nevada, Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. Kansas is tied with Wisconsin for the third most; Ohio has the most with 21 and Illinois has 7. Four cities have already voted in 2026 to restrict data centers or to reject measures that supported them.
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