The data center fight in Asbury Park, New Jersey
As of October 1, 2026, Asbury Park, New Jersey has a data center moratorium in force (action taken Jun 10, 2026).
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
Resolution 2026-264, unanimous: urges the governor and legislature to enact a statewide moratorium, and pauses local data center applications, zoning changes and site plans while the city rewrites its zoning code. A council resolution, not a zoning ban
SourceNews
read 2026-08-23
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 2 headlines archived.
Where the decision gets made
City Council — Zoning and city budget. Adopted Resolution 2026-264 urging Gov. Sherrill and the NJ Legislature to enact a statewide data-center moratorium — a policy statement, not a local zoning ban.
Meets: See the city's published agenda for the current schedule.
Where: City Hall, 1 Municipal Plaza, Asbury Park, NJ 07712
Public comment: See the council's published agenda for the public-comment process for a specific meeting.
Read from the official page on 2026-08-12. Meeting details change — confirm before you go.
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.
Nearby in New Jersey
- Neptune Township (2 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Red Bank (9 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Howell Township (10 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Holmdel (13 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Jackson Township (20 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Old Bridge (21 mi) — Enactedterm not documented
- Manchester Township (24 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Berkeley Township (24 mi) — Enactedterm not documented
All 75 tracked actions in New Jersey are on the state page.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · 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.