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.
Tabernacle 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 Tabernacle Township.
pending · Tabernacle TownshipWould prohibit data centers in Tabernacle Township, apparently by classifying them as a non-permitted use in the Regional Growth Area and Town Center, but as of September 17, 2026 no ordinance had been introduced or adopted.Tabernacle Leaders Offer Preliminary Indications They Are Against Data Centers and Aim to Have Prohibition Ordinance Introduced
What this means
If enacted as described, the ordinance would make data centers prohibited uses in the township’s two zones where they are currently allowed, effectively barring new facilities there. The article says this is a proposal, not a rule already in effect; an applicant might still seek a variance. The proposal is to make data centers a non-permitted use in those zones.
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The Pinelands Commission’s Comprehensive Management Plan allows data centers as a use in Tabernacle’s Regional Growth Area and Town Center, subject to applicable approvals: allows data centers in the township’s Regional Growth Area and Town Center
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