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Barclays Datacenter

Middlesex County, NJ

Source: OpenStreetMap

Barclays Datacenter is a mapped data center in Middlesex County, NJ. DataCentersExposed has documented a 352,286 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
Operator
Est. capacity
~70-150 MW
Footprint
352,286 sq ft
Utility
Public Service Elec & Gas Co
Grid
PJM
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

Barclays Datacenter is a 352,286 square foot facility in Middlesex County, New Jersey, operated by and tied to the British bank Barclays. The site draws power from Public Service Electric and Gas Co and sits within the PJM grid. It is currently mapped, and details on its capacity, subsidies, and environmental footprint remain limited.

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

Modeled estimate~93.6K gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~45.6K gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~48K gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 5 MW (interconnection capacity): 1.8 L/kWh cooling (temperate climate) + 0.5 gal/kWh embedded in PJM grid mix. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

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)
$8.5M to $18.2M/yr

An estimated ~70 to 150 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 →

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
62
PM2.5
Moderate
49
O3
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Central), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$150.6K
People of color
69%
Below poverty
3%
Tract population
2,367

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Randolphville Elementary School in Piscataway, is 0.5 mi from this site (445 students). 3 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.