Lawmakers Urge Pause on Data Center Air Permit

DATA CENTER CONCERNS: Ben Dziobek, executive director of the Climate Revolution Action Network, addresses a crowd of more than 150 attendees at a November 6 town hall at Christ Congregation in Princeton. The gathering focused on the mostly completed, but not yet operational, data center located on Route 1 South in South Brunswick. (Photo by Matthew Hersh) By Matthew Hersh U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman and state Sen. Andrew Zwicker are calling on the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) to withhold approval of an air pollution permit for a South Brunswick data center until additional environmental and public health questions are addressed, adding to growing regional opposition to the project. Their request, announced Monday, comes as construction of the approximately 341,000-square-foot facility on the former Princeton Nurseries property along Route 1 is largely complete.

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