Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hits Bumps in the Suburbs

New Jersey is rapidly deploying AI infrastructure without coordinated grid planning, triggering municipal bans and moratoria on data centers. New legislation now requires large data centres to pay for their own energy costs and incentivises clean power adoption, but 15+ pending bills suggest the state is still scrambling to regulate the sector. If you're selling power infrastructure, cooling systems or grid services to data centres, you're now selling into a fragmented market where the buyer's permission slip changes every 18 months and the grid operator is warning customers that supply can't keep pace. Get ahead of the state's final rules before December 2027—that's when the real consolidation of local rules happens.