Choctaw County enacts temporary moratorium on data centers

HUGO — The Choctaw County Board of County Commissioners has approved a temporary moratorium on the development, permitting and construction of data centers within the county.The resolution, approved May 18, 2026, establishes a 365-day pause on the acceptance, processing, approval or issuance of permits and applications related to new data centers, server farms, cloud-computing faciliti...