ManifoldPlay moneyPoliticsDevelopingUpdated 7m ago

Will at least one U.S. state enact a binding statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers before 2027?

As of Oct 11, 2026, 6:25 PM ET, Manifold priced this market at 18.8% (down from 21.2% 24 hours earlier). It had 150 mana traded in the past 24 hours and 1K mana of pool liquidity. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
18.8%
−2.4 percentage points
over 24 hours21.2% → 18.8%

Play-money market (mana, not dollars) — thin market where small orders can move the price — today's move came from a small group of accounts.

Price historyManifold

Source: Manifold price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Moderate

Consensus stability

Forming

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

Thin

Pool liquidity

1K mana

Bid-ask spread

n/a

automated market maker

24h volume

150 mana

Total volume

2.3K mana

Play money: depth is in mana, so it says nothing about real-money conviction.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

A few accounts
41%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

16

Trades

46

over 56 days

Largest order

500 mana

1.8K mana traded across these 46 trades (last 56 days).

A small group of accounts did most of the trading — neither one whale nor a broad crowd.

Recent trade activity$1.8K traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

Resolves YES if legislation signed into law by a governor (or passed via veto override) institutes an official temporary freeze or halt on approving/permitting new data centers (or data centers exceeding a specific megawatt threshold) statewide. Resolves NO if no such statewide measure is enacted into law before 11:59 PM ET on December 31, 2026.

This summary shows the opening of the venue's official rules. ProbCast has not yet generated an independent plain-English interpretation for this contract — review the full rules before relying on it.

View full official resolution rules

Resolves YES if legislation signed into law by a governor (or passed via veto override) institutes an official temporary freeze or halt on approving/permitting new data centers (or data centers exceeding a specific megawatt threshold) statewide. Resolves NO if no such statewide measure is enacted into law before 11:59 PM ET on December 31, 2026. Local/county-level moratoria or non-binding legislative study task forces do not qualify. The measure must be enacted after August 16th 2026 and before December 31st 2026

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesDecember 31, 2026 at 6:59 PM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 11, 6:31 PM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±19 pts.

Thin marketLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

medium classifier confidence
Thin market

Thin book and/or wide spread. Small orders can move this price disproportionately, so any single print is noisy and easily overread.

  • Thin book and/or wide spread.

Read with caution —Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
23Low
Where the price path tends to go next1009 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet99%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~36h
PredictabilityStable

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Market data

24h volume

150 mana

Liquidity

1K mana

Total volume

2.3K mana

Category
Politics
Venue
Manifold
Open interest
—
Current probability
18.8%
7-day range
18.8% – 21.2%
Resolves
Dec 31, 2026
Change (pts)1H0.06H-2.424H-2.47D-2.4

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