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Sterling Forest Business Resiliency Services Center (former IBM/Kyndryl Sterling Forest data center)

Sterling Forest (Town of Warwick), Orange County, New York

OperatingNo reception on recordRecord updated September 21, 2026

Sterling Forest Business Resiliency Services Center (former IBM/Kyndryl Sterling Forest data center) is an operating data center in Sterling Forest (Town of Warwick), New York (Orange County), operated by Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York (acquired from Kyndryl, June 2026). The public record puts it at 8.75 MW operating, 68 acres.

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Facility record

Operating

Operator: Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York (acquired from Kyndryl, June 2026)
Facility type: Data center
Location: 300 Long Meadow Road, Sterling Forest (Town of Warwick), Orange County, NY, 10979
Coordinates: 41.1959, -74.2556 (approximate)
Power capacity: 8.75 MW operating
Land: 68 acres
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: Not established from a public source
Utility: Orange & Rockland Utilities
Power source: Grid
Cooling: Evaporative
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: 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.

June 26, 2026
Operating
Kyndryl sold the 68-acre, 433,000 sq ft Sterling Forest Business Resiliency Services Center (8.75 MW total power, 5.25 MW IT load) to Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York Source: Rockland County Business Journal

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of September 21, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Sterling Forest Business Resiliency Services Center (former IBM/Kyndryl Sterling Forest data center) in Sterling Forest (Town of Warwick), Orange County, New York 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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Power and water

Chilled-water / mechanical-draft cooling tower system; 2023 DEC application for a non-public water withdrawal of up to 130,000 gal/day used only during supply-service interruptions.

Notes on the record

Long-standing enterprise/resiliency data center (IBM, then Kyndryl after the 2021 spin-off). Watchtower says the property 'will provide additional flexibility' for its internal databases and JW.ORG platform but specific plans 'remain unevaluated'; treat current use as continuing data-center operation pending confirmation.

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
How the community has received 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.
How the community has received it: Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Sterling Forest Business Resiliency Services Center (former IBM/Kyndryl Sterling Forest data center) in Sterling Forest (Town of Warwick)?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Sterling Forest Business Resiliency Services Center (former IBM/Kyndryl Sterling Forest data center)?

No lawsuit over Sterling Forest Business Resiliency Services Center (former IBM/Kyndryl Sterling Forest data center) appears in the record we track as of September 21, 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 Sterling Forest Business Resiliency Services Center (former IBM/Kyndryl Sterling Forest data center) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Sterling Forest Business Resiliency Services Center (former IBM/Kyndryl Sterling Forest data center) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as evaporative, 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 Sterling Forest Business Resiliency Services Center (former IBM/Kyndryl Sterling Forest data center), and how big is it?

Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York (acquired from Kyndryl, June 2026) is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 8.75 MW. The site is recorded at 68 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Sterling Forest Business Resiliency Services Center (former IBM/Kyndryl Sterling Forest data center)," updated September 21, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/watchtower-sterling-forest-warwick-ny.

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/watchtower-sterling-forest-warwick-ny, 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.Jehovah's Witnesses Buy Data Center in Warwick (Kyndryl Sterling Forest sale, June 26 2026) · Rockland County Business Journal · retrieved September 21, 2026
2.NYSDEC ENB, Town of Warwick, KYNDRYL INC, STERLING FOREST, 300 Long Meadow Rd: water-withdrawal application for chilled water / mechanical-draft cooling towers · NYS Department of Environmental Conservation · retrieved September 21, 2026

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