Essex County, New Jersey
Essex County, New Jersey has 3.1 MW of data centers on record, planned to operating, across 3 records, against 865.2 MW of generation operating inside the county. Nothing is in the interconnection queue for the county. That is 0.4% of New Jersey's data center MW.
Essex County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 5 of its 5 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.
Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers
of the generation operating in the county is matched by data center MW on record: 3.1 MW of data centers against 865.2 MW of plants.
Data centers by status
3 records, 3.1 MW
The data center pipeline
1 record list a year online or expected, from 2009 to 2009. No record lists a year at or after the snapshot. 2 records list no year.
Data center MW by year online or expected
Records not cancelled, by listed year. 2026 onward is planned or under construction.
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| Year | Records | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 1 | 0 |
Who is building in Essex
Data center developers by MW on record. Top 3 of 3.
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| Developer | Sites | MW |
|---|---|---|
| DataBank | 1 | 3 |
| GI Partners | 1 | 0 |
| Prism Capital Partners | 1 | 0 |
Power generation in the county
29 plants operate inside Essex County, 865.2 MW. Nothing is in the queue for the county.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Essex County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Gas | Operating | 10 | 762.3 |
| Municipal Solid Waste | Operating | 2 | 69.8 |
| Solar | Operating | 16 | 32.1 |
| Battery Storage | Operating | 1 | 1 |
Essex County against its neighbors
Hudson County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 96.3 MW, more than Essex County. 5 of the 5 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson County | 4 | 350 | 0.07x | ||
| Union County | 1 | 3,479 | 0.02x | ||
| Morris County | 3 | 0 | 0.07x | ||
| Essex County this page | 3 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Bergen County | 0 | 2,748 | 0x | ||
| Passaic County | 0 | 0 | 0x |
Data center MW counts records planned, under construction and operating. Generation is inside the county only. Neighbors without a page have fewer than three projects on record.
6 counties shownEvery record in Essex County
Campus or project name, developer, status, MW, year and the developer’s contacts, for all 32 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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