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.
Mullica 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 Mullica Township.
pending · Mullica TownshipWould establish a temporary six-month moratorium on new data-center activity, expansions, operations, and related municipal approvals, treating data centers as prohibited uses in every Township zoning district; the measure cites potential land-use, environmental, infrastructure, and public-safety impacts and the lack of comprehensive standards in the existing ordinance (Ordinance No.Mullica Township Ordinance No. 09-2026 (2026)
What this means
If enacted, the ordinance would block applications for new data centers and expansions for six months, a substantial but temporary barrier (six-month moratorium). It would also treat data centers as prohibited uses in every zoning district during that period (prohibited uses in all zoning districts), though the restriction is temporary.
Timing
- Ends
- six months from the effective date of the Ordinance
The moratorium applies during that six-month period. No extension condition is stated.
People behind it
- Township Committee of the Township of Mullica
Governing body that proposed, introduced, and passed Ordinance No. 09-2026 on first reading.
- Monica Newton
Acting Municipal Clerk who issued the ordinance notice and was directed to administer required notice and referral procedures.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements2
For six months from the ordinance’s effective date, the Township and its boards, departments, agencies, and officials may not accept, process, review, approve, or act on applications for a new data center, the expansion or enlargement of an existing data center, or any related site-plan, subdivision, zoning, construction-permit, variance, conditional-use, or other municipal approval. The six-month moratorium
During the moratorium, data centers are deemed prohibited uses in every zoning district in Mullica Township. Data centers shall be deemed prohibited uses in all zoning districts
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