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.
Bloomfield Township
Anti-Data Center Policies
Pennsylvania requires data centers over 25 MW to obtain local approvals, secure power for their full demand, cover project-related grid costs, and meet added community, jobs, environmental, and reporting obligations. These rules may raise costs and delay or prevent covered projects, but do not ban them.
Rating and summary from Pennsylvania statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Bloomfield Township.
current law · Bloomfield TownshipBloomfield Township approved a data center edict, indicating that the measure has been adopted rather than remaining a proposal.Bloomfield Township Data Center Ordinance
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- Bloomfield Township
Approved the data center edict
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements5
Data centers require conditional-use approval from the township before they may be built or expanded.
Applicants must submit detailed plans addressing the facility’s buildings, equipment, utilities, traffic, noise, lighting, and environmental effects.
Data centers must comply with site-design requirements, including setbacks, screening, and buffering from neighboring properties.
Data-center operations are subject to limits on noise and other impacts on surrounding properties.
Applicants or operators must address emergency response, fire protection, and related public-safety requirements as part of the approval process.
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