Proposed Data Center at Bell Works
There was supposed to be a meeting yesterday concerning the proposed Data center at Bell works that they're trying to build AFTER the township passed legislation heavily restricting Data centers.
I was not able to make it to the meeting due to work. Was anybody out there able to make it, and if so, what happened?
Nobody wants this Data center, and I am giving serious thought to putting my house on the market if it comes to pass, because it's going to tank real estate values.
The proposed center is going to draw 40 Megawatts of power at all times. That works out to 960 MWh every 24 hours.
960 MWh is enough power to supply 33,000 average sized American homes with power for 24 hours. The population of Holmdel is 17,400.
We don't even know how much water it's going to leech off of us.
I am hoping our planning board has come to their senses, and ran Zucker out of town. Go steal resources from elsewhere.
Edit: Please you guys, don't fall for any "Open letter to the public" garbage from a greedy RE developer. Today has been kinda hectic and I should have explained this in much more depth in the original post. There is an org by the name of Food and Water Watch and they actually have an excellent breakdown of why all of the precautions they are telling you about are a load of half-truths, at best: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2026/04/10/data-center-greenwashing/