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Montvale KPMG Site Data Center (3 Chestnut Ridge Road)

Montvale, Bergen County, New Jersey

ProposedContestedRecord updated October 9, 2026

Montvale KPMG Site Data Center (3 Chestnut Ridge Road) is a proposed data center in Montvale, New Jersey (Bergen County), operated by S. Hekemian Group (settlement party: SHG Montvale MB VI, LLC). The public record puts it at announced March 2, 2026. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator: S. Hekemian Group (settlement party: SHG Montvale MB VI, LLC)
Facility type: Data center
Location: 3 Chestnut Ridge Road, Montvale, Bergen County, NJ, 07645
Coordinates: 41.0474, -74.0694 (approximate)
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: Not established from a public source
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: March 2, 2026
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: Contested
Source confidence: Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

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.

March 2, 2026
Proposed
Montvale filed its affordable-housing settlement on March 2, 2026. It gives the developer of the former KPMG campus the choice between up to 250 homes and a data center. A revised settlement in April 2026 would allow the data center under a PILOT. Source: Pascack Press (The Press Group)

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Montvale KPMG Site Data Center (3 Chestnut Ridge Road) in Montvale, Bergen County, New Jersey is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Fair Share Housing Center and environmental groups oppose using the housing settlement to allow a data center, and residents spoke against it at a council meeting.

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.

Fair Share Housing Center and environmental groups oppose using the housing settlement to allow a data center, and residents spoke against it at a council meeting. The mayor supports keeping the data center option.

Source: Food & Water Watch

Notes on the record

The data center is an option in Montvale's fourth-round affordable-housing settlement for the KPMG property, not a filed site plan. Food & Water Watch gives the size as 322,822 sq ft and calls it hyperscale; no MW figure is published. The two sources disagree on acreage (34 vs 44 acres), so the land area is omitted. The mayor calls a data center an already-permitted use and says state and county officials are helping facilitate a project. KPMG still occupies one building on the site. Coordinates are the OSM point for Building 1 at 3 Chestnut Ridge Road, not a data center footprint.

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.

Power capacity in megawatts
Cooling method and water use
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Permanent jobs promised
Land area
Which utility serves it

Which document closes each gap

Power capacity in megawatts: The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
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.
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 Montvale KPMG Site Data Center (3 Chestnut Ridge Road) in Montvale?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Montvale KPMG Site Data Center (3 Chestnut Ridge Road)?

No lawsuit over Montvale KPMG Site Data Center (3 Chestnut Ridge Road) appears in the record we track as of October 9, 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 Montvale KPMG Site Data Center (3 Chestnut Ridge Road) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Montvale KPMG Site Data Center (3 Chestnut Ridge Road) 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 Montvale KPMG Site Data Center (3 Chestnut Ridge Road), and how big is it?

S. Hekemian Group (settlement party: SHG Montvale MB VI, LLC) is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Montvale KPMG Site Data Center (3 Chestnut Ridge Road)," updated October 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/hekemian-montvale-kpmg-site-data-center-nj.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/hekemian-montvale-kpmg-site-data-center-nj, retrieved October 11, 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 option at former KPMG site? Montvale's mayor, affordable housing group clash · Pascack Press (The Press Group) · retrieved October 9, 2026
2.Housing, Enviro Advocates Call on Montvale to Reject AI Data Center Plan · Food & Water Watch · retrieved October 9, 2026
3.OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode: 3 Chestnut Ridge Road, Montvale (Building 1) · OpenStreetMap · retrieved October 9, 2026

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