The data center fight in Old Bridge, New Jersey
As of September 27, 2026, Old Bridge, New Jersey has a data center moratorium in force (action taken 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
Township Council directed the drafting of an ordinance prohibiting data centers in every zoning district at its June 9, 2026 meeting; the Pinelands Preservation Alliance lists Old Bridge among municipalities with an enacted ban as of Aug 27, 2026. Confirm the adoption date with the township clerk
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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.
Recent news
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 1 headline 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
- East Brunswick (5 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Holmdel (9 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- North Brunswick (9 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Red Bank (15 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Plainfield (15 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- North Plainfield (16 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Cranford (17 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Roselle Park (17 mi) — Proposedno end date — permanent
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.