The data center fight in Andover Township, New Jersey
Andover Township has a proposed data center moratorium on this tracker. Status is derived, not stored — a pause with a documented end date flips to Expired on its own — and the source is right next to the claim.
Status today
Township moved to ban AI data centers after a contentious public meeting; faces a suit from National Land Developers over a former airport site
Source
read 2026-08-04
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
8 stories tracked since 2026-04-13 across 5 outlets. 6× A community is pushing back on a nearby data center. 1× The dispute has escalated into litigation. Most recent: “NJ town bans data centers, but the legal battle is only beginning” (New Jersey 101.5, 2026-07-23).
- NJ town bans data centers, but the legal battle is only beginning
- Towns use home rule to block data centers, a step beyond Sherrill
- Ban on data centers being considered in Andover Township, New Jersey, after town meeting gets violent
- 2 NJ towns fight against proposed AI data centers
- A N.J. town torn apart by an AI data center fight now says it’s reversing course
- Data center wars erupt across NJ, as Andover backtracks on OK'ing massive AI facilities
- Chaos erupts at NJ town meeting as cops wrestle resident over data center fight
- Rumors of a massive AI data center sparked this N.J. town to take drastic action
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 8 headlines archived.
What to do next
- Questions to ask at the hearing — force specific answers onto the record.
- Estimate the impact — electricity, water, and rate pressure for any facility size in New Jersey.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- New Jersey briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Elsewhere in New Jersey
- Monroe Township (Gloucester Co.) — Enacted
- Phillipsburg — Enacted
- Warren — Enacted
- Jersey City — Proposed
- Howell Township — Proposed
- Summit — Enacted
- Cherry Hill — Enacted
- Medford — Enacted
- Mansfield Township (Burlington Co.) — Enacted
- Chesterfield — Enacted
- Berkeley Heights — Enacted
- East Brunswick — Proposed
- Waterford Township (Camden Co.) — Enacted
- Plainfield — Proposed
- North Plainfield — Proposed
- Red Bank — Enacted
- Asbury Park — Enacted
As of August 2026 · changes weekly — re-check before citing
Illustrative rather than exhaustive — dozens of localities churn weekly, and this tracks the ones we have read a source for. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to the ordinance, the enacting body's own page, or a datable report of the vote, and were read on that date. Rows marked *unverified* came from bulk compilation and have not been checked against a primary source — the locality, the year, and the status may all be off. Verify one of those with the town clerk before citing it as precedent. **Expiry is derived, not asserted.** A row with a documented end date flips to *Expired* on its own once that date passes. A time-limited moratorium whose start date was never documented keeps showing as enacted — that is a known gap, not a claim that it is still in force. Moratoriums are also routinely extended, so an expiry date is the earliest it could have ended, not proof that it did.
Part of the U.S. data center moratorium tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0.