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Equinix NY7 Data Center

5851 West Side Avenue · North Bergen, Hudson County, NJ

Source: OpenStreetMap

Equinix NY7 Data Center is an operating data center in Hudson County, NJ, operated by Equinix, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 68,650 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
Equinix, Inc.
Operator
Equinix, Inc.
Est. capacity
~10-30 MW
Footprint
68,650 sq ft
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

Equinix NY7 is an operating colocation data center in North Bergen, Hudson County, New Jersey, run by Equinix, Inc. Public records put its footprint at 68,650 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 Equinix, 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.
  • The Climate Change Agreement$0
    HMRC, United Kingdom · granted 2022 · term yr · source
  • The Climate Change Agreement$0
    HMRC, United Kingdom · granted 2022 · term yr · source

Water use

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

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)
$1.2M to $3.6M/yr

An estimated ~10 to 30 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
71
O3
Moderate
60
PM2.5
Moderate

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

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$84.5K
People of color
86%
Below poverty
12%
Tract population
4,262

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, Lincoln Elementary School in North Bergen, is 0.6 mi from this site (1,309 students). 5 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.