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SEC1 Secaucus

Operational

615 Sedgebank Road, Secaucus, NJ 07094

Today

PowerOperational
CoolingOperational
Flood protectionOperational
Access and securityOperational
Meet-me rooms and cross-connectsOperational
Planned work
None announced
Next generator test
, 10:00 to 11:00

Specifications

Critical IT
8.4 MW in four halls
Power
Two 26.4 kV utility feeders; ten 2.25 MW generators with 72 hours of fuel on site
Cooling
Five 900-ton water-cooled chillers, N+2, with waterside economizers
Connectivity
31 networks on-net; four fiber entrances; two meet-me rooms
Certifications
SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, PCI DSS v4.0.1, HIPAA

SEC1 in full Spec sheet (PDF)

NWK1 Newark

Operational

241 Capstan Street, Newark, NJ 07114

Today

PowerOperational
CoolingOperational
Flood protectionOperational
Access and securityOperational
Meet-me room and cross-connectsOperational
Planned work
None announced
Next generator test
, 10:00 to 11:00

Specifications

Critical IT
14.4 MW on two levels
Power
Two 26.4 kV utility feeders; fourteen 2.5 MW generators with 72 hours of fuel on site
Cooling
Air-cooled chillers with integrated free cooling, N+2; no cooling towers
Connectivity
19 networks on-net; three fiber entrances; one meet-me room
Certifications
SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, PCI DSS v4.0.1, HIPAA

NWK1 in full Spec sheet (PDF)

Network and customer services

Cordgrass IPOperational
SEC1 to NWK1 dark fiberOperational
Customer portalOperational
Remote hands and ticketingOperational
NOC telephone linesOperational

Last incident: Cordgrass IP: degraded routing through one upstream network, .

Status page and incident history

Generator tests

Tests at both sites run for an hour at most, on half the sets at a time. If you live or work nearby and something seems wrong, call the neighbors’ line, +1 201 016 2788, at any hour.

Notices for neighbors

On the record

Every incident since 2019 is on our status page, including the ones that were our fault. The worst was on June 24, 2025, when a generator caught fire at SEC1 during a utility outage in a heat wave and equipment in Hall 2 shut down on temperature.

Read the post-incident report, PIR-2025-03

01 Data centers

Two buildings, 8.8 miles of fiber apart

SEC1 SecaucusNWK1 Newark
Opened20152020
Address615 Sedgebank Road
Secaucus, NJ 07094		241 Capstan Street
Newark, NJ 07114
Critical IT capacity8.4 MW14.4 MW
Data halls71,300 sq ft95,400 sq ft
Standard halls above BFE6.8 ft8.4 ft
Dry Floor above BFE24.2 ft25.1 ft
Cabinet density, up to45 kW60 kW
Networks on-net3119
PUE, 20251.431.31

BFE: base flood elevation, the level of the flood with a 1% chance of happening in any year on the effective flood map. SEC1 10.0 ft, NWK1 11.0 ft. PUE is annualized and measured at the UPS output.

SEC1 is an old refrigerated warehouse we rebuilt from the slab up in 2014. NWK1 is the building we designed from nothing in 2018, once we knew what we were doing. They are joined by two dark fiber routes that never share a trench, so a single backhoe cannot cut both, and a customer in one can run its second site in the other.

Both are carrier-neutral: we do not sell transport, and we do not mind which networks you buy it from.

02 Flood engineering

Built above the flood line.
Then we raised it.

Our two data centers stand in the New Jersey Meadowlands, a few miles from Manhattan and a few feet above sea level. We design every building around one number, the elevation of the water it has to stay above. In 2022, when the projections for that water went up, we went up with them.

6.8 ft SEC1 halls above the base flood elevation9.5 ft the barrier around them24.2 ft the Dry Floor

How we engineer for water

Section through SEC1, elevations in feet above NAVD 88 Site grade (average): 6.9 ft; High-water mark, October 30, 2012: 8.6 ft; Base flood elevation (1% annual chance, Zone AE): 10.0 ft; 0.2% annual chance flood: 11.8 ft; Our design flood elevation, 2014: 15.0 ft; Halls 1 to 3, finished floor: 16.8 ft; Our design flood elevation since 2022: 18.5 ft; Perimeter flood barrier, top: 19.5 ft; Generator plinths: 20.0 ft; Electrical gallery (switchgear and UPS): 21.0 ft; Hall 4, the Dry Floor, finished floor: 34.2 ft. barrier GEN Ground levelbuilt to flood Halls 1 to 3 Hall 4 the Dry Floor electrical 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 ft 34.2 Dry Floor 21.0 Electrical gallery 20.0 Generator plinths 19.5 Barrier top 18.5 Design flood elevation 16.8 Halls 1–3 floor 15.0 Design flood, 2014 11.8 0.2% annual chance 10.0 Base flood elevation 8.6 Oct 2012 high water 6.9 Grade

Section through SEC1, looking north. Vertical scale true; horizontal schematic. Water shown at the base flood elevation, 10.0 ft.

Drawing
CGD-SEC1-A-301
Title
Building section A–A
Rev.
F
Date
2024-06-03
Drawn
EMC
Checked
TW
Scale
1 in = 20 ft vert.
Sheet
1 of 1

03 The Dry Floor

The top floor, and nothing underneath it that needs to stay dry

Hall 4 at SEC1 and Level 2 at NWK1 are our Dry Floor: the top floor of each building, 24.2 and 25.1 feet above the base flood elevation. Each has its own UPS and generators in a 2N arrangement, its own switchgear above the design flood elevation, its own fuel, and its own fiber risers from sealed entrances.

If water ever reached the floor of our standard halls, the Dry Floor would keep running. That is the whole specification. Customers who choose it tend to be the ones who have been flooded before, or who have to explain to someone else why they will not be.

The Dry Floor in detail

Dry Floor at SEC1
34.2 ft NAVD 88
Dry Floor at NWK1
36.1 ft NAVD 88
Highest water recorded at either site
10.2 ft NWK1, October 30, 2012

04 Services

What we sell

Cabinets
From one 45U cabinet. Metered or fixed power, 5 to 45 kW, A and B feeds as standard.
Cages and suites
Cages from four cabinets; private suites at NWK1 from 1,240 square feet with their own mantrap.
The Dry Floor
Hall 4 at SEC1 and Level 2 at NWK1: 24 feet and more above the base flood elevation, 2N power.
Remote hands
Technicians on site around the clock. $165 an hour in 15-minute increments; urgent requests answered in 15 minutes.
Cross-connects
Fiber and copper in the meet-me rooms to any of 31 networks at SEC1 and 19 at NWK1, installed in two business days.
Cordgrass IP
Blended transit from four upstream networks, 1 to 100 Gb/s, with BGP communities documented in full.

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