The data center fight in Millville, New Jersey
As of September 27, 2026, Millville, New Jersey has a data center moratorium in force (action taken May 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
Board of Commissioners banned data centers citywide, calling them "incompatible with the City's land use planning objectives, infrastructure capacity, and community character." The vote killed the A1 Data Center campus, a 2.6 million sq ft proposal that would have drawn roughly 1.4 GW -- the largest data center ever blocked in New Jersey. Millville borders Vineland, where the DataOne/Nebius campus was already under construction
SourceNews
read 2026-08-30
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
The project on the table
A1 Data Center (Millville) — Blocked by ban
Size: 1,400 MW · Acres: 66
A 2.9 million sq ft campus on 66 acres, with building heights to 150 feet, that would have drawn roughly 1.4 GW from the grid - the largest data center proposal ever blocked in New Jersey. No site plan was ever formally submitted to the city; the Board of Commissioners banned data centers citywide first, on May 19, 2026, calling them incompatible with Millville's land use objectives, infrastructure capacity and community character. Millville borders Vineland, where the 300 MW DataOne/Nebius campus was already under construction. Opposition was organised by the Climate Revolution Action Network; Mayor Dan Dixon described the ordinance as proactive rather than a response to a specific application.
Next: Blocked by a local ban or moratorium - the project stopped at the ordinance, not at an application. Watch for the ordinance being challenged in court or allowed to lapse.
Latest in the record
- 2026-05-20 — ROI-NJ reported the ban as Millville rejecting the largest proposed data center facility in the state. · source
- 2026-05-19 — Millville's Board of Commissioners voted to ban data centers citywide, blocking the proposed 2.9 million sq ft, ~1.4 GW A1 Data Center before any site plan was filed. · source
Full dated timeline on the project tracker.
Source. Read 2026-08-30.
Recent news
- Millville Bans Data Centers Killing Largest Proposed Facility In New Jersey History
- Millville bans data centers, rejecting largest proposed facility in N.J.
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 2 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
- Downe Township (9 mi) — Enactedterm not documented
- Pittsgrove Township (12 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Deerfield Township (13 mi) — Enactedterm not documented
- Upper Pittsgrove Township (18 mi) — Enactedterm not documented
- Winslow Township (19 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Monroe Township (Gloucester Co.) (20 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Glassboro (22 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Pilesgrove Township (23 mi) — Enactedterm not documented
All 74 tracked actions in New Jersey are on the state page.
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.