The Data Center Divide
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Pilesgrove Township
Strongly Anti-Data Center Policies
Pilesgrove Township has enacted a law prohibiting data centers in every zoning district and as any type of use, effectively banning them locally.
current law · Pilesgrove TownshipWould amend Chapter 145 to define data centers and prohibit them throughout Pilesgrove Township, including facilities used for cloud services, streaming, blockchain or cryptocurrency mining, artificial intelligence, and other computing or data-processing purposes, while distinguishing them from in-person computer centers.Pilesgrove Township Ordinance No. 2026-05
What this means
The proposal would prohibit data centers in every zoning district and bar them as principal, accessory, temporary, or conditional uses (“Data centers are prohibited uses”). If enacted, that would amount to an outright local ban on building or operating them.
People behind it
- Joe Crevino
Moved to introduce Ordinance 2026-05 on first reading.
- David Bonowski
Seconded the motion to introduce Ordinance 2026-05 on first reading.
- Pilesgrove Township Committee
Municipal legislative body identified as the enacting authority for the ordinance.
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- Melissa Fackler
Township Clerk responsible for issuing required notice and certifying the ordinance.
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Defines data centers broadly to include facilities supporting cloud services, streaming, blockchain and cryptocurrency mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual reality, and other computing or data-storage functions, including functionally equivalent facilities with different names.
Prohibits data centers, internet data centers, and cloud data centers in all Pilesgrove Township zoning districts by listing them as prohibited uses under the Township’s prohibited-uses provision.
Bars a data center from being approved as a principal use, accessory use, temporary use, conditional use, or special-exception use.
Prevents data centers from being treated as public, civic, or cultural-purpose uses, public-purpose uses, or public utilities, so they cannot be approved under those classifications or under listed public-utility categories.
Provides that data centers are not permitted nonresidential categories in any district and cannot qualify for a change of use, whether or not site-plan approval is required.
The prohibition remains in effect unless data centers are first recommended in the Township Master Plan and then designated as permitted or conditionally permitted uses or structures in one or more zoning districts.
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