Data centers and water
Data Center Water Use in Hudson County, NJ
Hudson County, New Jersey has 18 mapped data center facilities, including Centersquare, CoreSite, Cyxtera, carrying about 595 MW of estimated power load.
Water pressure for new demandHow hard a large new water user, like a data center, would press on this county's water. It blends recent drinking-water compliance, drought, and existing industrial demand. Higher pressure means new demand competes harder with current uses. It is not a judgment about whether one should be built.
Low water pressure
Hudson County has no health violations in the last 5 years, moderate drought, low existing industrial water demand.
- Mapped facilities
- 18
- EPA + OpenStreetMap layers
- Estimated power load
- 595 MW
- IM3 Atlas capacity estimate
- Permitted discharge
- Not reported
- Clean Water Act permit fields
- DCWSI national rank
- #34
- of 318 scored counties
The operators
How many data centers are in Hudson County?
18 facilities are mapped to Hudson County, New Jersey across the EPA and OpenStreetMap layers, run by operators including Centersquare, CoreSite, Cyxtera. Counts reflect mapped footprint, not an operator's total fleet.
- EPA ECHO
BERNARD CHAUS INC
SECAUCUS, NJ
- OpenStreetMap
Centersquare NYC3 Data Center
Centersquare · Secaucus, NJ
- OpenStreetMap
CoreSite NY3
CoreSite · Secaucus, NJ
- OpenStreetMap
CoreSite Secaucus Campus
CoreSite · 34
- OpenStreetMap
Cyxtera (Digital Realty Trust) Citibank Data Center
Cyxtera · Weehawken, NJ
- OpenStreetMap
Digital Realty New Jersey EWR10
Digital Realty · Weehawken, NJ
- OpenStreetMap
Equinix
Equinix · 34
- EPA ECHO
EQUINIX
Equinix · SECAUCUS, NJ
- OpenStreetMap
Equinix New York Secaucus NY2
Equinix · Secaucus, NJ
- OpenStreetMap
Equinix New York Secaucus NY4
Equinix · Secaucus, NJ
- OpenStreetMap
Equinix New York Secaucus NY5
Equinix · Secaucus, NJ
- OpenStreetMap
Equinix NY3
Equinix · Secaucus, NJ
- OpenStreetMap
Equinix NY7 Data Center
Equinix · North Bergen, NJ
- OpenStreetMap
Equinix Secaucus NY6
Equinix · 34
- OpenStreetMap
Evocative Secaucus
Evocative · 34
- OpenStreetMap
H5 Secaucus
H5 · 34
- OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap data center 354590432
34
- OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap data center 451491797
34
Supply versus demand
How much water do Hudson County data centers use?
Exact facility water draw is rarely public. As a screening proxy we compare the Clean Water Act permitted discharge mapped to these facilities against the county's entire industrial water baseline from the USGS 2020 series.
No Clean Water Act permitted discharge is reported for the mapped facilities in Hudson County. The figures below show the county's industrial water baseline for context.
- Mapped facility discharge
- Not reported
- County industrial baseline
- 1.07 Mgal/day
Model a build
Can Hudson County support more data centers?
On the water-pressure scale, Hudson County sits at 19, below the national median, so new large-load demand has more slack here than in most counties. Size a hypothetical build to see the daily draw against the county industrial baseline.
Data Center Water Budget Calculator
Estimate daily water use for a hypothetical facility in Hudson County.
Your facility would use 74.8% of this county's industrial water baseline. Verify water rights and long-term drought projections before committing.
Based on USGS 2020 water-use data and EPA-standard cooling intensity constants. Not a substitute for site-specific water rights analysis.
In context
How does Hudson County compare nationally?
- DCWSI build-out rank
- #34
- of 318 counties with a stress score
- Water pressure vs median
- 0
- national median is 19 of 100
- Share of mapped load
- 0.4%
- of 166.02 GW mapped nationally
Hudson County is one of 330 US counties with mapped data centers. See the full ranking and the interactive map in the national atlas.
Facility data combines EPA ECHO, EPA Clean Water Act permits, OpenStreetMap, and the IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas (DOE/PNNL), geocoded to county FIPS. Capacity and water baselines come from IM3 and USGS 2020 water-use data. These are county-level screening figures, not a facility-level water-use audit. Read the full methodology.