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Rackspace Somerset NYC1

Somerset County, NJ

Source: OpenStreetMap

Rackspace Somerset NYC1 is a mapped data center in Somerset County, NJ, operated by Rackspace Technology, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 18,407 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 12, 2026

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Real parent
Rackspace Technology, Inc.
Operator
Rackspace Technology, Inc.
Est. capacity
~5-10 MW
Footprint
18,407 sq ft
Utility
Public Service Elec & Gas Co
Grid
PJM
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

data center

Operator chain

In the news

source: Google News

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

Water use

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

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)
$607.7K to $1.2M/yr

An estimated ~5 to 10 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 →

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Elizabeth Avenue School in Somerset, is 0.3 mi from this site (554 students). 2 public schools sit within a mile of the site.

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.