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.
Liberty Township
Strongly Anti-Data Center Policies
Liberty Township has enacted an ordinance barring data centers and related uses in every zone, including facilities that store, manage, or process digital data and typical supporting equipment. This effectively prevents new facilities and expansions that qualify as data centers.
current law · Liberty TownshipProhibits data centers and related uses in every zoning district in Liberty Township, New Jersey, affecting property owners, developers, and operators seeking to establish such facilities; the measure is intended to protect the Township’s rural character, agricultural lands, scenic and historic resources, environmental conditions, water supplies, and residents’ health and safety.Liberty Township Ordinance 2026.002 (2026)
What this means
The ordinance was adopted and makes data centers a non-permitted use in every zone, including related uses, effectively barring new facilities and expansions that count as that use. It defines data centers broadly to include facilities for storing, managing, or processing digital data and typical supporting equipment (definition and prohibition).
People behind it
- Mayor John Inscho
Named with the Township Committee as the governing body sponsoring the ordinance; opened the public hearing for its adoption.
- Liberty Township Committee
Governing body that sponsored, introduced, and adopted Ordinance 2026.002.
- Daniel Grover
Moved to introduce Ordinance 2026.002 and later moved for its adoption.
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- Wayne Spangenberg
Seconded the motions to introduce and adopt Ordinance 2026.002.
- Jennifer Breslin
Deputy Clerk who certified the ordinance’s introduction and administered its public-adoption notice.
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Data centers are designated as a non-permitted use in all zoning districts throughout Liberty Township, including all related uses, effectively barring their construction, expansion, and operation in the Township.
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