Digital Realty New Jersey EWR21 is a data center operated by Digital Realty in Clifton, NJ, US. The facility is currently active. It sits in the Clifton data-center market on the PJM grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 49.4-month time-to-power. Operators should weigh interconnection risk here — the market screens constrained on grid headroom and time-to-power.
Data Center Power Index verdict for Clifton — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Clifton — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Clifton's data center market remains nascent with minimal operational scale. The market currently comprises 7 tracked facilities totaling 0 MW of capacity, reflecting an early-stage market with limited infrastructure deployment. Digital Realty maintains the largest footprint with 4 facilities, while three operators—Colocation America Corporation, an unnamed entity, and bt—each operate single sites. The absence of meaningful capacity figures suggests these are either pre-operational assets, colocation nodes, or facilities too small to register material power consumption at the market level. The DCPI verdict of AVOID is driven by severe structural constraints that should deter institutional investment. With an excess-power score of only 18/100 and a constraint rating of 55/100, Clifton exhibits both insufficient available utility capacity and substantial operational friction. The…
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