Data Center Registry
165 Halsey Street
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey
165 Halsey Street is an operating data center in Newark, New Jersey (Essex County), operated by Tishman Real Estate. The public record puts it at 80 MW operating.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- Tishman Real Estate
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- 165 Halsey Street, Newark, Essex County, NJ
- Coordinates
- 40.7369, -74.1739 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 80 MW operating
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 12, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over 165 Halsey Street in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Notes on the record
Major carrier-neutral carrier hotel and colocation building in downtown Newark: 1.2M sq ft, 14-story former Bamberger's department store (built 1912-1929) converted to telecom use starting 1996 (retrofit initiated by Samuel Jemal). Over 360,000 sq ft of active colocation space plus roughly 110,000 sq ft available; six meet-me rooms totaling 240,000+ sq ft; 60+ networks with no MRC cross-connect fees; a landing point for the Apollo transatlantic submarine cable system. 80 MW power capacity confirmed independently by both Baxtel and the operator's own site.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the 165 Halsey Street data center in Newark?
Nothing on record as of September 12, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over 165 Halsey Street in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the 165 Halsey Street data center?
No lawsuit over 165 Halsey Street appears in the record we track as of September 12, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does 165 Halsey Street use?
No water withdrawal figure for 165 Halsey Street is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates 165 Halsey Street, and how big is it?
Tishman Real Estate is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 80 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "165 Halsey Street," updated September 12, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/165-halsey-street-newark-nj.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/165-halsey-street-newark-nj, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.About Us · 165 Halsey Street · retrieved September 12, 2026
- 2.165 Halsey Street, official site · 165 Halsey Street · retrieved September 12, 2026
- 3.165 Halsey Street Data Center and Carrier Hotel · Baxtel · retrieved September 12, 2026
- 4.165 Halsey Street · Wikipedia · retrieved September 12, 2026
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