South Ward Environmental Alliance and Ironbound Community Corporation calling for one year moratorium on AI data center development in Newark
Equinix NY1
Equinix lists a data center at Newark, New Jersey among the sites it operates. It is running; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- Equinix
- as stated by the source
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | Not disclosed | |||
| How much water it would use | Not disclosed | |||
| How loud it would be | Not disclosed | |||
| Jobs once it runs | Not disclosed | |||
| Tax it would pay each year | Not disclosed |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Equinix | as stated by the source | September 17, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What was decided
Acts of Essex County and Newark about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newark | Newark City Council voted in favor of a resolution supporting a 12 month moratorium on AI data center development or expansion | patch.com | |
| Newark | Newark City Council voted on September 9 2026 to approve a resolution supporting a 12 month moratorium on data center development and expansion in the city | patch.com | |
| Newark | Newark Municipal Council approved a resolution calling for a temporary moratorium on data center development | newjerseyglobe.com |
What happened
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(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Equinix has been located in Secaucus since 2001, for 25 years. [3]
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· Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)
Equinix lists Equinix NY1 at Newark, New Jersey on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [2]
What was said
AI data centers cited as posing risks to overburdened communities through electricity and water consumption, air and noise pollution, and limited transparency
Anibal Ramos Jr North Ward Councilman sponsored resolution requiring closed loop chillers and water efficient cooling technology for data centers
Every statement about data centers in New Jersey, by speaker
1 more statement on this page
The site
Where in Newark is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Newark, not a building, and the outline is Essex County.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Running, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 12 other published records in New Jersey
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
- Where
- Newark, Essex County, New Jersey
- How exactly it is located
- Town level, the center of the city
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at the center of its town.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Equinix NY1?
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Equinix is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Equinix NY1 say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Equinix NY1 stand today?
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It is running; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, reported September 15, 2026: Equinix has been located in Secaucus since 2001, for 25 years. [3]
What has Newark or Essex County decided about it?
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Newark: Newark City Council voted in favor of a resolution supporting a 12 month moratorium on AI data center development or expansion (reported September 21, 2026, source); and Newark: Newark City Council voted on September 9 2026 to approve a resolution supporting a 12 month moratorium on data center development and expansion in the city (September 9, 2026, source). 3 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Primary documents
- Equinix: United States and Canada colocation data centers, Equinix, September 14, 2026
- Equinix: Equinix NY1, Equinix, September 14, 2026
Reporting
- Update On Fuel Spill Into Creek From North Jersey Data Center - Patch, Patch, September 15, 2026, local outlet
3 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Equinix NY1", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/equinix-ny1-newark-nj, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Equinix NY1", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/equinix-ny1-newark-nj. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- equinix-ny1-newark-nj
- Status value
- operational
- Stage
- Running
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/nj/essex-county/newark
- Coordinates
- 40.7244717, -74.1725407
- Location precision
- city
- Location source
- U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
- Coordinate source
- tigerweb city centroid
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- September 14, 2026
- EPA registry id
- Not disclosed
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- not_disclosed
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-14
- Last verified
- 2026-09-17