The data center fight in Jersey City, New Jersey
As of October 1, 2026, Jersey City, New Jersey has a data center moratorium in force (action taken Aug 19, 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
Ordinance 26-057 passed unanimously, removing data centers as a permitted principal use in Industrial Districts. Permanent zoning ban; does not affect ~5 existing facilities in office buildings
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read 2026-09-12
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
20 stories tracked since 2026-02-21 across 14 outlets. 16× Local officials are moving to pause or block the project. 4× A community is pushing back on a nearby data center. Most recent: “Gonnelli Wants Jersey City Mayor To Help Him Fight NJSEA On Data Centers” (patch.com, 2026-09-18).
- Gonnelli Wants Jersey City Mayor To Help Him Fight NJSEA On Data Centers
- Jersey City Business Administrator Designated Acting Mayor During Solomon's Out-of-State Trip
- Jersey City Council bans A.I. data centers from being built in the industrial district
- Jersey City Council bans A.I. data centers from being built in the industrial district
- Jersey City Council votes to ban data centers on industrial property
- Jersey City Council Votes To Ban Data Centers On Industrial Property
- Jersey City Council votes to ban data centers on industrial land
- Jersey City Council votes to ban data centers on industrial property
- Jersey City Council votes to ban data centers on industrial land
- Jersey City Council Unanimously Approves Ban on New Standalone Data Centers
- Jersey City Council Unanimously Approves Ban on New Standalone Data Centers
- After months of organizing, a New Jersey city voted 5-0 to ban data centers
+8 more on the story tracker.
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 20 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.
Nearby in New Jersey
- Bayonne (5 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- East Rutherford (8 mi) — Enactedterm not documented
- Roselle Park (12 mi) — Proposedno end date — permanent
- Cranford (14 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Summit (16 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Madison (20 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Plainfield (20 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Berkeley Heights (21 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
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.