Greater Los Angeles data center permits, Q3 2026: no new capacity filed, and Vernon's utility stopped taking data center power requests.

The small hollow grey dots are data centers operating today, from the public PeeringDB facility list, each linked to its PeeringDB record. An operating building is context for the filings and is in no count on this page.

Sources were added or changed during these quarters, so these counts cannot be compared with each other or with Q3 2026. They show what the records hold, not a trend.

* Express permit: the city publishes no filing date. The issue date is treated as the filing date.

** The portal's Permit Date. The application date is not stated.

Noted, not counted: no power figure stated.

Each row is one project with every record linked. Vernon page numbers are council packet pages. Valuations are never summed.

South Coast air district equipment records for CoreSite and Equinix facilities show no application or permit dated in Q3 2026. Other operators and other air districts were not read, so this is not a finding that none was filed.

The Energy Commission docket holds GIC Vernon LLC's February 2025 application for 40 diesel generators, 38 of 3 MW and two of 1 MW, for two Goodman Energy Park data center buildings in Vernon. The 5 August 2026 notice opened the environmental impact report. A state filing, in no count.

1. 21 Jan 2026Monterey Park: Saturn Park moratorium, then a citywide ban approved by voters 2 June as Measure NDC (ordinances, certification).
2. 4 Mar 2026Baldwin Park and El Monte: 45-day moratoria, El Monte's on 18 March, both extended in April (minutes, minutes).
3. 3 Jun 2026Indio: 45-day moratorium (city release). Extended to 16 October on 15 July, NBC Palm Springs reported (news).
4. Jun 2026Coachella: 45-day moratorium and a July extension, KVCR reported (news).
5. 16 Jun 2026Desert Hot Springs: 45-day moratorium (16 June meeting). Extension heard 7 July (agenda packet) and adopted, KESQ reported (news).
6. 22 Jun 2026Alhambra: citywide ban, 5-0 (minutes). Measure DB called for 3 November on 27 July (ballot measures).
7. 11 Aug 2026Commerce: 45-day moratorium to 25 September (file 14-6219). Extension and citywide ban heard 21 and 22 September, no outcome recorded (agenda, agenda).
8. 17 Aug 2026Los Angeles County: departments recommended banning hyperscale data centers in all zones (report).
9. 26 Aug 2026Palm Springs: moratorium, 5-0 (minutes). Extended to 25 August 2028 on 30 September (agenda), The Palm Springs Post reported (news).
10. 26 Aug 2026Coachella: citywide ban, 5-0 (minutes).
11. 8 Sep 2026Los Angeles City Council: motion to study a moratorium above 100 MW, no vote (file 26-1284).
12. 9 Sep 2026Irwindale: citywide ban, second reading (draft minutes, pages 10 and 11).
13. 14 Sep 2026Riverside: committee memo for a citywide ban, no outcome (meeting).
14. 17 Sep 2026Los Angeles County: planning director barred large-scale data centers in unincorporated areas pending a code change (6 October motion).
15. 21 Sep 2026State of California: Governor signed SB 887 and AB 2469.

No local action specific to data centers was found for 2025.

Projects reported in the press or by the operator, with no record saying they build a data center. None of these is in the counts above.

• DataBank, 3094 East Vernon Avenue, Vernon. A 32 MW data center with Goodman, as the operator announced in April 2026. No Vernon permit names it.
• 2301 West 120th Street, Hawthorne. Two city filings describe a 4,200 square foot telecom space for new IT racks. Neither calls it a data center.
• Elsinore Heights Industrial Project, Lake Elsinore. The city's February 2026 notice describes an option with a data center building on 61 acres. No later filing is on record.
• Puente Hills Mall redevelopment, City of Industry. Proposed as part of the mall's redevelopment, CALÓ News reported (news). No application or site record is public.

Boundary. Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino counties: 184 cities and five unincorporated areas (SCAG boundaries).

"Reviewed" ranges from a full quarter of a city's permit data to one address or one month of reports. In the other 157 jurisdictions no permit register was read, which is no finding that nothing was filed there.

Records read. Los Angeles: the city's building, electrical and mechanical permit datasets, every filing since 1 January 2025 whose description says data center or data hall. Vernon: the July and August 2026 permit reports, scanned council packet pages, so a filing appears only once a permit is issued. Redondo Beach: the portal's records at one address. Council and county records for the governments in the timeline, state environmental notices for the five counties, and the Energy Commission's Vernon docket. The other cities in the table held no qualifying filing. Certificates of occupancy were not read.

What is counted. Only permitting that adds data center buildings or capacity. A new building or data room counts without a stated capacity. Work at an existing data center counts only when its record states added power with a figure, and is otherwise listed as noted, not counted. Power work that does not name a data center counts only above 1 MW with the data center it serves on record. Replacements, repairs, renewals, amendments, voided filings and work whose record does not name a data center are left out.

Counting. A site is one address or campus and counts once in a quarter it files to add buildings or capacity, however many permits it files. A project is one piece of work with its filings, dated by its first filing, or by the building's filing when a city numbers one building's jobs separately. Valuations are the city's figures, never added together. Generator megawatts are backup ratings, never space.