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Verizon Branchburg NEC Datacenter

OperatingEnterpriseBuildingSomerset County, New Jersey
20% profile completeness
14 claims from 6 sources
Current facility power
Not yet sourced
Planned capacity
Not yet sourced
Building footprint
57,000 sq ft[1]
Likelyderived
Buildings (planned)
Not yet sourced
Capital cost / investment
Not yet sourced
First operational
Not yet sourced

POWER & GRID

Time-to-power · verification · interconnection
Time to power
Operating (community-mapped, unverified)
Low confidence
Project verification
Unverified
Evidence is limited to community map.
Current stage
Operational
Furthest stage with documented evidence
Utility · ISO
Jersey Central Power & Light · PJM
Substation: Azoplate J T Substation (34.5 kV) (nearest, unverified)

Power reality

Announced
No record
Interconnection request
No record
Contracted / approved
No record
Under construction
No record
Operational
No record
AI evidence brief
Summarizes only the evidence on this page. Answers citing anything else are rejected automatically.

Project verification

Development
  1. Announcedimplied by a later stage
  2. Land acquiredimplied by a later stage
  3. Planning / zoningimplied by a later stage
  4. Permittingimplied by a later stage
Grid interconnection
  1. Interconnection application
  2. Feasibility study
  3. System impact study
  4. Facilities study
  5. Interconnection agreement / service contract
Build & energization
  1. Financing
  2. Under constructionimplied by a later stage
  3. Energizationimplied by a later stage
  4. OperationalSep 27, 2026
    Community map
    • Sep 27, 2026 · Reported status: operating[1]

● documented · ◌ implied by a later stage · ○ no evidence found. Dates are those of the earliest dated evidence, which can be later than when a stage actually began. Evidence classes: Community map.

Grid path

  1. facility
    Verizon Branchburg NEC Datacenter
  2. substation
    Azoplate J T Substation (34.5 kV)[1]
    Proximity onlyUnverified
    Nearest mapped substation, 0.98 km away. Proximity does not establish that it serves the site.
  3. transmission
    Not identified
    UnknownUnverified
    No transmission line mapped within 2 km.
  4. utility
    Jersey Central Power & Light[2]
    Service territoryLikely
    Retail service territory containing the site
  5. ISO / RTO
    PJM[3]
    Service territoryLikely
    Balancing authority: PJM
Substation capacity:
not published
Required upgrades:
not yet sourced
Congestion:
not yet sourced (no nodal price data)

Dashed boxes are based on proximity only and do not establish which asset serves the site.

Interconnection records

QueueRelationshipStageMW req.MW appr.QueuedExpected in servicePOI / TOSource · as of
PJM W2-036
Central SP · Solar
Possibly related generation
Speculative
Generation request name/developer shares “central” with this facility, in the same county. Not confirmed as serving it.
In service
In Service; feasibility: Document Posted; system impact: Document Posted; facilities: Not Required; ISA/GIA: Wholesale Market Participation Agreement
0.70.284Jun 18, 2010In service Mar 21, 2011Polhemus Lane 13kV
TO: PSEG
[4] Sep 27, 2026

On-site & dedicated generation

  • PJM W2-036 Central SP (Solar, 0.7 MW requested)[4]
    Generation request name/developer shares “central” with this facility, in the same county. Not confirmed as serving it.
    SolarArrangement unknown1 MWSpeculative

Location & imagery

Mapped outline
Coordinates
40.59953, -74.70998
County
Somerset County
Photographs

No openly licensed ground-level photos matched to this site yet.

Ownership, operation & customers

  1. 1. Property owner of record
    Not identified
  2. 2. Owner / developer
    Not identified
  3. 3. Operator
    Verizon[1]Likely
  4. 4. Tenant / cloud
    Not identified
  5. 5. End customer / workload
    Not identified
Power supply
Utility:
Jersey Central Power & Light[2]Likely

Each link is sourced separately. The property owner of record is often a special-purpose entity; the same company appearing in two roles is shown only when sources say so.

All parties with evidence
Operator
Utility
Jersey Central Power & Light[2]Likely

Location falls inside this utility's retail service territory.

No tenants or end users identified in our sources yet.

Power (all fields)

Current facility power
Not yet sourced
Planned capacity
Not yet sourced

Capacity figures are nameplate or contracted; annual consumption is a labeled model estimate, not metered data.

Grid & electricity

ISO / RTO
PJM[3]Likelyderived

Location falls inside this ISO/RTO footprint.

Balancing authority
PJM[2]Likelyderived

Control area of the containing utility territory.

Nearest mapped substation
Azoplate J T Substation (34.5 kV)[1]Likelyderived

Nearest substation mapped in OpenStreetMap; proximity does not establish which substation serves the site.

Distance to substation
1 km[1]Likelyderived
State avg. industrial price
15.63¢/kWh[5]Confirmed

New Jersey statewide average, July 2026.

State avg. commercial price
19.17¢/kWh[5]Confirmed

New Jersey statewide average, July 2026.

Generation within 50 km
9.9 GW[6]Confirmedderived

219 EIA-reported plants within 50 km.

Generation queued in county
8 MW[4]Confirmedderived

1 active generation interconnection requests in Somerset County: Solar 8 MW. Queued projects often don't get built.

Interconnection status
Not yet sourced
Contracted / committed power
Not yet sourced
Nearby infrastructureTypeDistanceVoltage / capacitySource
Woodbridge Energy Center · Woodbridge Energy CenterPower plant (Natural Gas)34.4 km727 MW[6]
Red Oak Power LLC · Red Oak Operating Services LLCPower plant (Natural Gas)34.8 km776 MW[6]
Pseg Sewaren Generating Station · Sewaren Generating StationPower plant (Natural Gas)39.4 km538 MW[6]
Talenenergy Martins Creek · TalenEnergy Martins Creek LLCPower plant (Natural Gas)40 km1.7 GW[6]
Lower Mount Bethel Energy · Lower Mount Bethel Energy LLCPower plant (Natural Gas)40.4 km602 MW[6]
Linden Cogen Plant · EFS Cogen Holdings I LLCPower plant (Natural Gas)41.9 km904 MW[6]
Pseg Linden Generating Station · Linden Combined CyclePower plant (Natural Gas)42.5 km1.64 GW[6]
Arthur Kill Generating Station · NRG Arthur Kill Operations IncPower plant (Natural Gas)43.1 km896 MW[6]
Azoplate J T Substation · Jersey Central Power and LightSubstation0.98 km34.5 kV[1]
North Branch Substation · Jersey Central Power and LightSubstation2.11 km34.5 kV[1]
Largest queued generation in this countyFuelQueue statusMWSource
Somerville 26 kVPJM AI1-033SolarIn study · proposed 2026-128 MW[4]

Utility, ISO and nearby assets are derived from the site's location. Proximity to a substation or line doesn't establish the interconnection; that needs a utility filing or interconnection-queue record. Queue requests are applications, not commitments — most never reach operation.

Construction & permitting

  1. Announced
    —
  2. Land acquired
    —
  3. Permitting
    —
  4. Construction start
    —
  5. First operational
    —
  6. Expected completion
    —

Real estate

Official assessments
Assessor's value for a tax year

None sourced yet

Recorded transactions
Sale prices from recorded deeds

None sourced yet

Model estimates
Our model — not an appraisal

None sourced yet

Annual property tax
Not yet sourced

No county parcel or assessor records linked yet. County records are currently ingested for Loudoun County, VA and Maricopa County, AZ.

Size

Building footprint
57,000 sq ft[1]Likelyderived

Computed from the mapped OSM building outline.

Floor area
Not yet sourced

What changed (last 3 years)

Follow this facility (RSS)

No tracked changes yet. Values are recorded on every data refresh, so changes will appear here over time.

Timeline

No dated events sourced yet.

All claims (provenance audit)

14
FieldValueSourceConfidenceAs ofStatus
NameVerizon Branchburg NEC Datacenterway/756382880 name=Verizon Branchburg NEC Datacenter[1] Likely2026-09-27Shown
StatusOperating[1] derivedUnverified2026-09-27Shown
Facility typeEnterprise[1] derivedUnverified2026-09-27Shown
OperatorVerizonoperator=Verizon[1] Likely2026-09-27Shown
UtilityJersey Central Power & Lightterritory 9726: JERSEY CENTRAL POWER & LT CO (INVESTOR OWNED, FIRSTENERGY CORP)[2] derivedLikely2022Shown
ISO / RTOPJMPJM INTERCONNECTION, LLC[3] derivedLikely—Shown
Balancing authorityPJM[2] derivedLikely—Shown
Nearest mapped substationAzoplate J T Substation (34.5 kV)way/675179436[1] derivedLikely2026-09-28Shown
Distance to substation1 km[1] derivedLikely2026-09-28Shown
Generation queued in county8 MW[4] derivedConfirmed2026-09-27Shown
State avg. industrial price15.63¢/kWh[5] Confirmed2026-07Shown
State avg. commercial price19.17¢/kWh[5] Confirmed2026-07Shown
Generation within 50 km9.9 GW[6] derivedConfirmed202502Shown
Building footprint57,000 sq ft[1] derivedLikely2026-09-27Shown