Citizens voted in person at Concho for a moratorium on hyperscale data centers on Tribal lands running to October 2029, while the Governor said no agreement had been signed. A direct citizen vote is a form of authority a council can borrow on a question where water rights remain unsettled.
beverly cantrell, ponca city now · oct 5, 2026 · [005]
Tribal Council Resolution 2026-41 rests on the work of a task force created in May and asks for state consultation under the New York pause. It lands in the same week the state is still deciding whether the Massena project falls under that pause.
levi rickert, native news online · oct 2, 2026 · [005]
ONCA 26-70 would require Osage Nation government entities to obtain congressional approval before approving a hyperscale facility, in a reservation where a proposed Google project needs a minerals council lease. The question is which body speaks for the Nation.
thomas pablo, kosu · sep 28, 2026 · [005]
The Department of Environmental Conservation says it is evaluating which projects the order captures. The project is reported about a mile from Akwesasne territory, and the answer determines whether state review happens at all.
syracuse.com, via irecruit · sep 30, 2026 · [005]
Ordinance 158 cites water and noise, and the Council acted while a neighboring data center drew attention in western North Carolina.
scott mckie b.p., one feather · may 7, 2026 · [005]
Resolution 2027-002 covers Tribally owned trust and fee land and the 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty territories, refuses every form of easement, and opposes use of Missouri River water. Drawing the line at easements and Treaty territory is a drafting model for any Nation on a shared river.
lower brule sioux tribe · oct 1, 2026 · [005]
The town board voted 3 to 2 against a six-month moratorium on September 16. North Country Colocation Services says its 400 megawatt project is outside New York's statewide pause because it needs no additional discretionary state environmental permits. The reach of an executive order keyed to permitting is a project-by-project question.
north country now · sep 17, 2026 · [004]
The resolution states that no outside entity or private developer may use, damage or compromise the Nation's resources without its free, prior and informed consent. It is drafted as a standing claim rather than a response to a named project, which is a model available to any Nation.
gabriel pietrorazio, kjzz / mountain west news bureau · sep 16, 2026 · [004]
The Court of King's Bench hears Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation's judicial review in December. The court record shows the Nation was not told of the province's November 2024 determination and obtained it in January only under a disclosure order.
aaron walker, windspeaker.com · sep 12, 2026 · [004]
Batchewana First Nation does not support the proposal at this time and Garden River First Nation has asked the city for a separate government-to-government process. A third Nation, Missanabie Cree, is a development partner. The city's proposed 50 megawatt moratorium threshold may not reach the facility the neighbours object to.
cbc news · [004]
The Tribe brought an ecologist and a hydrologist to a public session on September 9, the last of three that day, and is seeking a coalition of Nations along the Missouri River. Councilwoman Keely Bassette Purcell put the distance to Salix at three miles.
acacia killian, ktiv · sep 9, 2026 · [004]
One-year moratorium bills in both chambers and a Senate regulatory package have not moved since June. The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians endorsed a state moratorium in May, and nothing has advanced since.
kyle davidson, michigan advance · sep 14, 2026 · [004]
The Tribal Council banned data centers on Pyramid Lake Paiute homelands on August 21. Pyramid Lake is the terminus of the Truckee River, and the Water Over Data Alliance is now seeking a ban across the whole watershed plus the free, prior and informed consent of every Nation in it.
kat fulwider, kunr public radio · sep 2, 2026 · [003]
Lyon County approved rezoning for a 1,000 megawatt campus on August 6. The Yerington Paiute Tribe and Walker River Paiute Tribe have resolutions against it. County records carry two different water figures for the same cooling system, which is itself a record a Nation can cite.
piper heath, the nevada independent · aug 8, 2026 · [003]
For Tribal governments, this is the broadest jurisdictional statement yet published by a Nation on this subject, and it is available as a drafting model: opposition on the Reservation, in ceded lands, in Treaty-protected areas, and anywhere a project may adversely affect the Reservation.
shoshone-bannock tribes office of public affairs · may 27, 2026 · [003]
The Tribes filed a technical analysis agreeing with a city hearing examiner that the developer failed to provide sufficient information for meaningful review. The standard is procedural, not jurisdictional, and is available to any Nation in any county proceeding.
shoshone-bannock tribes office of public affairs · jul 7, 2026 · [003]
Page, Arizona sold a 500-acre parcel for a stated 1 gigawatt facility about a mile from the Colorado River. The LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation, roughly five miles away, passed a resolution against the sale.
madyson fitzgerald, states newsroom · sep 4, 2026 · [003]
The court unanimously denied the developer's request to partially resume air permit proceedings on September 1. The Environment Department decision deadline remains November 23. No Tribal Nation is a party.
joshua bowling, source new mexico · sep 1, 2026 · [003]
For Tribal governments, this provides an adoptable three-part model: an executive-order task force with a deadline, a citizen survey producing a defensible number, and a policy separating trust land (prohibition) from fee land inside the reservation (consultation standard).
chez oxendine (lumbee-cheraw), tribal business news · aug 10, 2026 · [002]
The Hualapai Tribal Council passed a resolution on August 20 opposing data center construction within reservation boundaries, citing critical Colorado River shortages along with light pollution and wastewater discharge.
knau arizona public radio · aug 24, 2026 · [002]
For Tribal governments, this provides a template for asserting standing in a municipal proceeding where the Nation has no formal role: a council resolution on the record, a named water resource, and a consultation request directed at the city rather than the developer.
bret hayworth, siouxland public media · aug 21, 2026 · [002]
The five-member Business Committee declared opposition to data centers on Tribal lands in July, citing land, water and electricity.
thomas pablo, kosu · aug 4, 2026 · [002]
The New Mexico Supreme Court issued a unanimous temporary stay on August 23 halting the state Environment Department's air quality permit proceedings. No Nation is a party to the stay.
joshua bowling, source new mexico · aug 24, 2026 · [002]
Chairman Floyd Azure said three companies approached the Tribes in the past year, and none could say what the Tribes would gain.
montana free press · aug 13, 2026 · [002]
Every tool in the room shared one design decision: the data never leaves the network. Each one runs inside the community it serves.
madison mclauchlan, betakit · jul 17, 2026 · [001]
Honor the Earth is tracking more than 100 proposed data center projects on or near Tribal territory, with developers drawn by land, water, power, and tax abatements.
the next web · [001]
The Seminole Nation answered a startup that led with a nondisclosure agreement by enacting a moratorium covering "any inquiries, discussions and/or developments."
native news online · [001]
157 data center bills across 36 state legislatures, a White House push for a national framework that would preempt some state approaches, and a menu of governance options Tribal councils can act on now.
tana fitzpatrick, j.d., ou native nations center for tribal policy research · jun 16, 2026 · [001]
Sea ice forecasting for the Arctic, grounded in Inuit knowledge, ocean science and remote sensing. A model trained with the community, deployed for the community.
arctictoday · jul 16, 2026 · [001]
NSF's Tribal Colleges and Universities Program funds computer science capacity at TCUs, and it explicitly includes AI. Check the current window before your next budget cycle.
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