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New Jersey is not asking anymore. New Jersey is banning.
The Millville Board of Commissioners voted to completely ban data centers within city limits. The decision effectively kills a proposed 2.6 million-square-foot facility, marking the largest data center project ever successfully blocked in New Jersey. At full capacity the massive facility was projected to draw 1.4 gigawatts of power from the electrical grid — an amount equivalent to powering over 1 million residential homes.
One point four gigawatts. One million homes. One city commission. One vote. Gone.
Asbury Park joined about seven other towns across New Jersey that banned data centers, including Red Bank, which passed its ban the same week. Other large towns including Sayreville, Union, Warren, Phillipsburg and Summit have introduced measures banning data centers.
Seven towns with bans. More towns with measures in progress. The whole state is moving.
The sweeping Millville vote was a massive victory for the Climate Revolution Action Network, a Gen Z-led environmental advocacy group that spearheaded a months-long grassroots campaign. The strategy successfully built a coalition linking teenage climate activists with long-time agricultural families whose roots in South Jersey stretch back generations.
Teenagers and farmers. Side by side. Against the same machine.
“Every town in this state needs time to get this right before it’s too late,” warned Asbury Park Mayor John Moor.
He is right. Time is the one thing the industry cannot manufacture. Every day a ban holds is a day the machine cannot build. Every town that says no forces the machine to find somewhere else. And somewhere else is getting smaller.
They are building something in New Jersey. Town by town. Ban by ban.
This is Cricketpocalypse.
