QTS Piscataway
Piscataway, Middlesex County, NJ
QTS Piscataway is an operating data center in Piscataway, NJ, run by QTS Realty Trust, Inc., a private operator. The facility is reported at 18 MW. QTS acquired this 360,000 sq ft, 38-acre, ~18MW critical-power data center at 101 Possumtown Road in Piscataway (Middlesex County) from DuPont Fabros Technology for $125.6M, closing June 6, 2016. Distinct address/building from the already-tracked Digital Fortress (201 Centennial Ave), DataBank EWR2 (25 Corporate Place South), and Centersquare EWR3 (3 Corporate Place) facilities also in Piscataway.
- 18 MWPlanned capacity
Project status
- Announced
- Permitting
- Under construction
- Operational
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New Jersey state legislation
- S680 - Energy usage plans for AI data centers/crypto miningRequires energy usage plans and clean energy sourcing for proposed AI data centers and cryptocurrency mining facilities.Download
- SB 887 - Data centers: environmental impact reviewRequires environmental impact review for data centers.Download
- S4390 - "End Data Center Tax Credits Act"; reduces tax credits available for Next New Jersey Program.Description comingDownload
- A796 - Requires electric public utilities to develop and apply special rules for certain data centers to protect non-data center customers from increased costs.Description comingDownload
- S4401 - Requires BPU to conduct study on environmental, infrastructural, and financial impacts of data center development in State.Description comingDownload
- A5294 - "Responsible Data Center Development and Resource Protection Act"; establishes Statewide framework concerning siting, land use approval, energy sourcing, water use, and environmental impacts of large load data center development.Description comingDownload
- A2770 - Establishes surcharge for electric public utility service to certain data centers during certain periods; establishes "Grid Modernization Fund" in BPU.Description comingDownload
- A4696 - Requires owner or operator of data center to submit water and energy usage report to BPU.Description comingDownload
- S2274 - Requires owner or operator of data center to submit water and energy usage report to BPU.Description comingDownload
- A5224 - Requires data center developers to disclose certain information to public and elected officials before preliminary site plan consideration under MLUL.Description comingDownload
- S3611 - Directs planning boards to submit certain data center development plans to BPU and State Planning Commission and requires State Planning Commission approval for data center development under MLUL; excludes data centers from economic development subsidies.Description comingDownload
- S4402 - "Responsible Data Center Development and Resource Protection Act"; establishes Statewide framework concerning siting, land use approval, energy sourcing, water use, and environmental impacts of large load data center development.Description comingDownload
- A4945 - Requires BPU to conduct study on environmental, infrastructural, and financial impacts of data center development in State.Description comingDownload
- A5165 - "End Data Center Tax Credits Act"; reduces tax credits available for Next New Jersey Program.Description comingDownload
- A4096 - Requires data center owners and operators to submit semi-annual water and energy usage reports to BPU.Description comingDownload
- A1170 - Requires submission of energy usage plan to BPU for proposed artificial intelligence data centers; requires all electricity for artificial intelligence data centers to be derived from new clean energy sources.Description comingDownload
- S3379 - Requires data center owners and operators to submit semi-annual water and energy usage reports to BPU.Description comingDownload
- SR18 - Urges states in PJM Interconnection region to require data centers to obtain electricity from new zero- or low-emission sources of energy.Description comingDownload
- A5373 - Concerns noise abatement of data centers.Description comingDownload
- A5482 - Establishes six month moratorium on approvals, construction, expansion, subsidies, and tax incentives for certain artificial intelligence data centers; creates Artificial Intelligence Data Center Impact Commission.Description comingDownload
Site details
- Operator
- QTS Realty Trust, Inc.
- County
- Middlesex County, NJ
- Capacity
- 18 MW
- Address
- Piscataway, NJ
- Stage
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