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Equinix data center, Middlesex County, NJ

Middlesex County, NJ

Source: OpenStreetMap

Equinix data center in Middlesex County, NJ is a mapped facility, operated by Equinix, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 62,331 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
Equinix, Inc.
Operator
Equinix, Inc.
Est. capacity
~10-25 MW
Footprint
62,331 sq ft
Utility
Public Service Elec & Gas Co
Grid
PJM
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

This is a mapped Equinix colocation data center in Middlesex County, New Jersey, operated by Equinix, Inc. Its reported footprint is 62,331 square feet. The site draws power from Public Service Electric & Gas Co inside the PJM grid.

Operator chain

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Equinix, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Dollar value not disclosed for these records.
  • The Climate Change Agreement$0
    HMRC, United Kingdom · granted 2022 · term yr · source
  • The Climate Change Agreement$0
    HMRC, United Kingdom · granted 2022 · term yr · source

Water use

Modeled estimate~93.6K gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~45.6K gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~48K gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 5 MW (interconnection capacity): 1.8 L/kWh cooling (temperate climate) + 0.5 gal/kWh embedded in PJM grid mix. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Environmental permits

source: Permit register
  • Clean Air Act permitted sourceNJ0000003401712708
    NAICS 518210; ECHO compliance status: No Violation Identified
  • Clean Air Act permitted sourceNJ00013123
    NAICS 518210; ECHO compliance status: No Violation Identified

What this site costs the grid

source: PJM RPM auction reports
PSEG (New Jersey) · 2027/28 auction
$333 /MW-day
Peaked at $245/MW-day in 2013/14 8.84× the rest of PJM

PJM's capacity auction sets a $/MW-day price that utilities pass on to every household and business in the zone. This site sits in PJM's PSEG pricing zone, where soaring data-center demand is a documented driver. See the full zone-by-zone breakdown →

This site's capacity-market cost (estimated)
$1.2M to $3M/yr

An estimated ~10 to 25 MW of load at the zone's $333/MW-day, annualized — the capacity charge a load this size carries at the current auction price. Estimated from the building footprint at 200 to 400 W/ft² (the typical range for modern data centers). A rough order-of-magnitude figure, not a metered or permitted capacity.

Separately, a typical home in this zone pays an estimated $4 to $10/mo more on the capacity portion of its bill that PJM's market monitor attributes to data-center demand. See your address's full impact →

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
62
PM2.5
Moderate
49
O3
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Central), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$155.6K
People of color
63%
Below poverty
1%
Tract population
5,979

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Knollwood Elementary School in Piscataway, is 0.6 mi from this site (508 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.