Montgomery Township Committee unanimously approves an ordinance to ban data centers and detention centers. A lawyer who represents Kahn Development -— the owner of a 300-acre tract zoned for limited industrial use, urged Montgomery leaders to vote against an ordinance. About a dozen community members spoke in support of the ordinance, and to protect a 300-acre plot in Skillman —the former campus of J&J and Kenvue now owned by EKahn.

In a pre-emptive measure aimed at safeguarding its local infrastructure and environmental quality from the pressures of federal immigration policy and the burgeoning technology sector, leaders of Montgomery Township, New Jersey, have introduced an ordinance to prohibit the construction of both data centers and immigrant detention facilities within its geographical boundaries.