The Data Center Divide
A policy snapshot ahead of the 2026 midterms. Mapping data center incentives, restrictions, and bans through legislation, regulations, and executive actions across all 50 states and 1,462 local jurisdictions.
Egg Harbor Township
Mixed Data Center Policies
New Jersey requires large data centers to cover much of their electricity costs and offer demand flexibility; reporting and construction rules add paperwork and costs. Tax incentives are available only to qualifying projects, while regulators study possible electricity-cost effects.
Rating and summary from New Jersey statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Egg Harbor Township.
pending · Egg Harbor TownshipImposes an immediate temporary moratorium on Egg Harbor Township’s acceptance of new land-use applications involving data centers, covering facilities principally used for servers, data storage, networking, or similar digital infrastructure.New Jersey Resolution No. 416 (2026)
What this means
The measure would temporarily stop the Township from accepting new land-use applications to build or establish data centers through December 31, 2026 (moratorium through December 31, 2026). That creates a real, though short-term, barrier to new projects; ordinary data equipment accessory to another lawful use is excluded, and the resolution does not itself impose ongoing operating rules.
Timing
- Ends
- Dec 31, 2026
The moratorium on accepting new land use applications involving data centers expires on December 31, 2026, unless earlier terminated, extended, or otherwise modified by the Township Committee. Accessory and incidental computer, server, networking, or data-storage equipment remains permitted.
People behind it
- Township Committee of the Township of Egg Harbor
Proposed, adopted, and imposed the temporary moratorium on accepting new land-use applications involving data centers.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
A temporary moratorium, effective immediately through December 31, 2026, bars the Township from accepting new land-use applications for developing, constructing, or establishing a data center, unless the moratorium is earlier terminated, extended, or modified. It does not prohibit ordinary computer, server, networking, or data-storage equipment that is accessory and incidental to another lawful principal use. The moratorium applies to new data-center land-use applications through December 31, 2026
Benefits & exceptionsHide benefits & exceptions1
Ordinary computer servers, networking equipment, and data-storage technology that is accessory and incidental to an otherwise lawful principal use is excluded from the Data Center definition and is not prohibited by the moratorium.
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