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Local Officials Reject Proposed Data Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey

Local authorities in New Brunswick, New Jersey, voted on Wednesday against allowing the construction of a data center on a plot of land slated for redevelopment, instead requiring that a park be built on the site. The New Brunswick City Council was reviewing a proposal for the Jersey-Sandford ...

February 21, 2026

New Jersey

New Jersey Senate Advances Bill to Establish New Rate Class for Data Centers

The New Jersey Senate has advanced a bill that would create new tariff classes for “large load” data centers in an effort to protect ratepayers in the state from cost increases.The bill, cosponsored by ten Democrat lawmakers, would require public electrical utilities in the state to submit pro...

January 13, 2026

New Jersey

Stack Overflow Fully Exits Data Centers

Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer website for computer programmers, has officially exited its data center in New Jersey as part of its cloud migration effort. Stack noted that for the past 16 years it had been operating out of a physical data center in which the site reliability engineer (...

January 06, 2026

New Jersey

NJFX Plans 10MW Liquid-cooled Data Hall in New Jersey

NJFX is expanding its cable landing station and data center site in New Jersey. The firm said the move is supported by the execution of an electric utility load letter supported by a $3 million deposit, targeting power delivery by end of 2026. Bala Consulting Engineers is working with the comp...

December 01, 2025

New Jersey

MacWeb Launches US East Cloud Region in New Jersey

Mac-based cloud infrastructure provider MacWeb has launched a new cloud region in New Jersey. The region gives customers access to cloud Mac mini and Mac Studio cluster nodes located near Manhattan and major network exchanges."Many application and AI engineers already develop on the Mac and wa...

November 29, 2025

New Jersey

Sophia Space Secures $3.5m for Orbital Data Centers

Seattle-based Sophia Space, an orbital computing venture, has raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding led by Unlock Ventures with the participation of angel investors, to develop Edge compute solutions for orbit and what they call space-based data centers.“We are at the dawn of a new era where...

May 27, 2025

Seattle

InterServer selects 365 Data Centers for New Jersey expansion

Web hosting and managed service provider InterServer has selected 365 Data Centers as its colocation provider as it looks into expanding its offering in the New Jersey market. 365 has 20 data centers across the US, including multiple New Jersey locations such as Carlstadt and Bridgewater, enab...

January 09, 2025

New Jersey

CoreWeave to convert New Jersey lab building into data center

CoreWeave is expanding its data center footprint in New Jersey. According to local press, the company has signed a long-term lease with an Onyx Equities and Machine Investment Group partnership for the entirety of building 11 at The Northeast Science & Technology Center (NEST) in Kenilwort...

October 29, 2024

New Jersey

Data center firms announce $5bn data center JV for CoreWeave

Data center firms Chirisa and PowerHouse are partnering with asset manager Blue Owl for a multi-billion-dollar joint venture to build data centers for AI cloud firm CoreWeave. The agreement is intended as the first stage of a partnership with capacity to deploy up to $5 billion of capital for...

September 01, 2024

Chirisa Investments

Phaidra raises funds for data center cooling control system

Industrial AI company Phaidra has raised $12 million for its data center cooling control system from Index Ventures and will use the money for R&D, implementation, and go-to-market efforts.“The data center industry is in the midst of an arms race to build new capacity wherever land and po...

July 05, 2024

Seattle

Former Sungard data center is up for sale in New Jersey

Via RI Marketplace, Real estate firm Marcus & Millichap is offering 1008 Virgil Avenue in Ridgefield, a former Sungard data center field as up for sale via auction and bidding for this property is set to begin March 25, with $750,000 listed as a starting bid. The listing reads, “The proper...

February 14, 2024

New Jersey

Old Capital One facility offered by Chirisa to hyperscalers

A former Capital One facility in Chester, Virginia, is being marketed by Chirisa to hyperscalers. Chirisa Technology Parks, a subsidiary of Chirisa that was recently established, lists the facility located at 1401 Meadowville Technology Pkwy outside of Richmond on its official website as avail...

June 07, 2023

Chirisa Investments

Pittsburgh Data Center up for Sale or Lease

A data center for sale or lease is available in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Colliers and Five 9s Digital are offering the McKees Rock facility located at 615 McMichael Road. The site is listed for lease in Colliers' materials, but Five 9s claims it can be purchased or leased. The circa 1980-cons...

June 01, 2023

Pittsburgh

iM Critical Starts Work on its Pittsburgh Modular Edge Campus

iM Critical has begun constructing a modular Edge data center campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The data center campus will have three buildings when fully built out. It will also include EV charging stations and on-site solar power. iM Critical says the data center will support more than...

May 18, 2022

Pittsburgh

iM Critical To Develop 10MW Data Center Campus in Pittsburgh

iM Critical has announced its plans to develop a modular data center campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The campus will be developed on a 5.4-acre site. In addition, it will provide 10MW in capacity. According to the company, the first phase of development will offer 3MW, and it will come ...

April 27, 2022

Pittsburgh

Virginia Commonwealth University announced plans to build new data center in Richmond

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has announced proposals for a data center located in Richmond, Virginia, at 707 W. Broad St. The planned facility will span 30,000-square-foot (2,800 sqm).According to reports, the data center will cost around $42-44 million and will be divided between bo...

November 30, 2021

Richmond

Chirisa acquires Piscataway facility from Equinix

Chirisa Investments announced it has closed on Piscataway New Jersey facility owned by Equinix. The facility formerly known as Equinix NY12 was previously acquired in May 2017 in a large 28 data center deal with Verizon. The facility is located at 201B Centennial Avenue in Piscataway NJ and is...

August 16, 2019

Digital Fortress Piscataway

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