The Acme Township Board approved Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment #2026-01 on May 5, 2026, imposing a six‑month temporary moratorium on computing and data centers. During this moratorium, staff, the Planning Commission, and legal counsel will draft detailed zoning text to regulate data center uses, including siting, intensity, environmental impacts, and water/resource protections, with public hearings and eventual Board action anticipated. Regional partners such as The Watershed Center have already provided a technical memorandum to all area planning commissions outlining zoning, stormwater, soil erosion, and health‑code tools to mitigate large‑scale data center water impacts, and Acme’s Planning & Zoning Administrator has told the Planning Commission that data center language will be coming to them for review in the next couple of months.This creates a pre‑RFP window for planning, legal, environmental, IT infrastructure, and engineering consultants to help the township shape a defensible regulatory framework, model infrastructure demands, and craft standards that align with state law and emerging Michigan energy siting rules. Vendors that can bring example ordinances, impact modeling, or stakeholder engagement support around high‑intensity IT uses and cooling/water systems are well‑positioned to influence the standards that will govern any future data center proposals in Acme.

Township is in Grand Traverse Bay watershed and has strong community support for water quality protection, which will likely drive strict data center standards.