Jersey City introduces ordinance to ban data centers on industrial land - ROI-NJ

Jersey City has introduced an ordinance banning data centres from industrial land, restricting a major land use category from the city's zoning. The move signals local resistance to data centre development competing with manufacturing and logistics for scarce urban industrial real estate.

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