The data center fight in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Cherry Hill has an active 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
Ordinance prohibiting data centers as a non-permitted use, unanimous; small server rooms for standalone businesses still allowed. Most populous municipality in Camden County
Source
read 2026-08-13
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
5 stories tracked since 2026-03-29 across 3 outlets. 4× Local officials are moving to pause or block the project. 1× A community is pushing back on a nearby data center. Most recent: “A Craig LaBan pizza pick in Cherry Hill | Inquirer South Jersey” (Inquirer.com, 2026-07-29).
- A Craig LaBan pizza pick in Cherry Hill | Inquirer South Jersey
- Cherry Hill adopts law blocking any large-scale data center development in town.
- Cherry Hill joins a growing list of South Jersey municipalities to formally ban large-scale data centers
- Cherry Hill Council introduced zoning law change Monday evening that would ban data centers in town.
- This N.J. town just took a major step to ban AI data centers before it’s too late
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 5 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
- Andover Township — Proposed
- Summit — 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.