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Digital Realty New Jersey EWR20

100 Delawanna Avenue · Clifton, Passaic County, NJ

Source: OpenStreetMap

Digital Realty New Jersey EWR20 is an operating data center in Passaic County, NJ, operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 29,614 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
Operator
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
Est. capacity
~5-15 MW
Footprint
29,614 sq ft
Interconnection
~17 MW
Utility
Public Service Elec & Gas Co
Grid
PJM
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

EWR20 is an operating colocation data center in Clifton, Passaic County, New Jersey, run by Digital Realty Trust, Inc. Its reported footprint is 29,614 square feet. The site draws power from Public Service Electric & Gas Co inside the PJM grid.

Operator chain

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Dollar value not disclosed for these records.
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2014 · term yr · source

Water use

Modeled estimate~318.4K gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~155.2K gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~163.2K gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 17 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)
$607.7K to $1.8M/yr

An estimated ~5 to 15 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
68
PM2.5
Moderate
54
O3
Moderate

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

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$138.5K
People of color
43%
Below poverty
9%
Tract population
5,565

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, School #8 in Clifton, is 0.3 mi from this site (168 students). 7 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.