Data Center Registry
Bell Works Data Center (101 Crawfords Corner Road)
Holmdel, Monmouth County, New Jersey
Bell Works Data Center (101 Crawfords Corner Road) is a proposed data center in Holmdel, New Jersey (Monmouth County), operated by Somerset Development. The public record puts it at announced July 24, 2026, 40 MW planned. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Somerset Development
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- 101 Crawfords Corner Road, Holmdel, Monmouth County, NJ, 07733
- Coordinates
- 40.3651, -74.1675 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 40 MW planned
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- July 24, 2026
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- 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
- Contested
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- July 24, 2026ProposedPreliminary and final site plan application filed with the Holmdel planning board; deemed administratively complete before the township's data center ban was adopted. Source: Patch
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Bell Works Data Center (101 Crawfords Corner Road) in Holmdel, Monmouth County, New Jersey is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record. Holmdel introduced a data center ban on 21 July 2026 and adopted it 11 August 2026.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.
Holmdel introduced a data center ban on 21 July 2026 and adopted it 11 August 2026. The applicant filed on 24 July 2026, after introduction, before adoption, and invokes New Jersey's time-of-application rule; the township attorney has publicly said the application could fail on its merits at the planning board. Review was expected to take several months.
Power and water
Patch reports the project will use a closed-loop cooling system; no consumption volume is published.
Notes on the record
108,000 sq ft, 40 MW data center proposed in an existing two-story building off the ring road behind the main Bell Works building, under a 2012 redevelopment agreement that explicitly lists data centers as a permitted use. Coordinates are the mapped Bell Works main building; the proposed data center building sits elsewhere on the same campus, hence 'approximate'.
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.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- 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.
- 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 Bell Works Data Center (101 Crawfords Corner Road) in Holmdel?
Yes. Bell Works Data Center (101 Crawfords Corner Road) in Holmdel, Monmouth County, New Jersey is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record. Holmdel introduced a data center ban on 21 July 2026 and adopted it 11 August 2026.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Bell Works Data Center (101 Crawfords Corner Road)?
The reception note on this record refers to a court proceeding. Read it in full under opposition and litigation above, and check the sources at the foot of the page for the filing itself.
How much water does Bell Works Data Center (101 Crawfords Corner Road) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Bell Works Data Center (101 Crawfords Corner Road) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Bell Works Data Center (101 Crawfords Corner Road), and how big is it?
Somerset Development is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 40 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Bell Works Data Center (101 Crawfords Corner Road)," updated September 14, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/bell-works-holmdel-data-center-nj.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/bell-works-holmdel-data-center-nj, retrieved October 1, 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.'Data Center Proposed At Bell Works: See Details', Holmdel/Hazlet Patch · Patch · retrieved September 14, 2026
- 2.'Developer Filed Data Center Proposal for Bell Works Before Holmdel's Ban', Two River Times · Two River Times · retrieved September 14, 2026
- 3.OpenStreetMap mapped building 'Bell Works', 101 Crawfords Corner Road, Holmdel Township NJ 07733, via Nominatim · OpenStreetMap contributors · retrieved September 14, 2026
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