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.
Borough of Sayreville
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Mixed Data Center Policies
Sayreville Borough has enacted an 18-month ban on data center development in all zones, restricting new construction and development-related expansion; continued operation of existing centers is not expressly banned. The description’s “if enacted” wording conflicts with the enacted status.
Rating from New Jersey statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Borough of Sayreville.
current law · Borough of SayrevilleWould impose an 18-month moratorium on developing data centers throughout Sayreville throughout the Borough, prohibiting them in all zoning districts and in Sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Hercules Redevelopment Plan.Sayreville Borough Ordinance 15-26 (2026)
What this means
If enacted, this would block data center development in every zone for 18 months, making new construction and development-related expansion substantially harder (“data centers shall be prohibited from being developed in all zones”). It does not expressly ban continued operation of existing data centers, but the temporary, town-wide moratorium is a severe development restriction.
Timing
- Ends
- eighteen (18) months after adoption of Ordinance #15-26
The ordinance prohibits the development of data centers throughout the Borough for eighteen months commencing on the adoption date, July 20, 2026. No extension condition is stated.
People behind it
- John Zebrowski
Planning and Zoning Committee coordinator who moved the ordinance for approval on first reading and scheduled the public hearing.
- Stanley Synarski
Seconded the motion to approve Ordinance #15-26 on first reading.
- Jessica Morelos
Borough Clerk responsible for submitting the ordinance to the Planning Board and administering required public notices and adoption procedures.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements3
An 18-month moratorium prohibits the development of data centers in all zones throughout the Borough, beginning on the date Ordinance #15-26 was adopted.
The ordinance defines data centers broadly to include facilities for storing, managing, or processing digital data and related systems; any use with a power density of 2 to 4 megawatts or more per acre is considered a data center. A data center is expressly not classified as a warehouse.
The Hercules Redevelopment Plan is amended to prohibit data centers and datacenters in Section 1 for the same 18-month period, and to temporarily prohibit them in Sections 2 and 3 as well.
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