Monroe Township (Gloucester County, NJ) banned AI data centers on 170 acres of farmland after residents packed public meetings opposing a 522K sq ft warehouse + 1M sq ft data center proposed by Hexa Builders LLC (Princeton). Planning board voted unanimously NO in January 2026. Hexa then sued for $300M in federal court claiming data centers are a medium of expression protected by the First Amendment. Mayor Greg Wolfe: We will do everything in our power to stop all data centers. CoreWeave mentioned as connected. This is the FIRST known case nationally where a developer uses a First Amendment free speech argument to challenge a data center ban — precedent-setting for every town in America.
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