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.
Hainesport Township
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Mixed Data Center Policies
Hainesport’s enacted ordinance bars building or expanding data centers unless a future master-plan review recommends allowing them and the Township Committee approves; small server rooms inside other facilities are excluded.
Rating from New Jersey statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Hainesport Township.
current law · Township of HainesportProhibits data centers in Hainesport Township by adding them to the prohibited uses under § 104-53(L), with a broad definition covering facilities used to store, manage, or process digital data and related infrastructure (Ordinance).Hainesport Township Ordinance No. 2026-11 (2026)
What this means
The measure would prohibit data centers in Hainesport unless a future master-plan review recommends allowing them and the Township Committee approves. Small server rooms within another facility are excluded, but the rule would otherwise prevent building or expanding data centers there.
Timing
- Ends
- Upon recommendation in the next master plan reexamination report and a Township Committee determination that data centers should be permitted with appropriate development regulations
The ordinance creates a conditional prohibition on data centers rather than setting a fixed expiration date. The prohibition remains in effect until both stated conditions are satisfied; no extension condition is stated.
People behind it
- Hainesport Township Committee
Introduced, considered, and enacted Ordinance No. 2026-11 prohibiting data centers.
- Paula L. Kosko
Township Clerk responsible for issuing notices, referring the ordinance to the Planning Board, and filing the adopted ordinance.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements4
Data centers are prohibited uses in Hainesport Township under Chapter 104, § 104-53(L), so they may not be built, expanded, or operated as a principal use.
The prohibition applies broadly to facilities housing digital infrastructure, including cloud-computing infrastructure, cryptocurrency-mining operations, artificial-intelligence processing facilities, and other high-density digital infrastructure, regardless of how the use is labeled.
The prohibition will remain in place unless and until the next master plan reexamination recommends data centers and the Township Committee determines that they should be permitted with appropriate development regulations; the ordinance sets no specific deadline for that review or decision.
An accessory server room is excluded from the data-center definition only if it is subordinate to the principal use and does not exceed the lesser of 2% of the principal structure’s gross floor area or 2,000 square feet.
Benefits & exceptionsHide benefits & exceptions1
Accessory server rooms are excluded from the definition of a data center—and therefore from the prohibition—if they are subordinate to the principal use and no larger than the lesser of 2% of the principal structure’s gross floor area or 2,000 square feet.
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