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Latest data center news, projects, power and policy across New Jersey — updated daily.
Recent New Jersey data center news
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White House Warns PJM to Reform Grid Governance ‘Before It Is Too Late’
The White House has warned PJM Interconnection to overhaul its governance and stakeholder process, while PJM says it is still on the administration’s previously announced timeline.
- The White House spokesperson said PJM has failed to implement the bipartisan Statement of Principles provided in January and urged reforms to stakeholder process, board governance, and implementation “before it is too late.”
- PJM said it has worked with the White House Energy Dominance Council and the 13-state region’s governors, completed its stakeholder process on backstop procurement, and expects the Board to act in very short order.
- FERC is scheduled to hold a technical conference on PJM governance and stakeholder process, with remarks from Peter Lake of the White House’s National Energy Dominance Council.
- The debate is tied to rising power demand from AI data centers, cloud providers, and other large industrial customers, with concerns about interconnection queues, transmission expansion, and capacity costs.
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Patented: Cardio Voyage Innovations’ Dual Heart Valve Device and 172 More Inventions Across North Texas
Dallas Innovates reports that Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 in U.S. patent production for the week of June 23, 2026, with 173 patents granted.
- 173 patents granted across the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area; the region ranked No. 8 among 250 metros for the week of June 23, 2026.
- The article is a news roundup/commentary on granted patents, not a first-time product or funding announcement; it highlights patents spanning medical devices, AI, transportation, energy, HVAC, networking, and manufacturing.
- No contact emails or phone numbers are provided in the text.
- The story references multiple local inventors and assignees, including Cardio Voyage Innovations, DFW International Airport Board, BNSF Railway, Texas Instruments, Toyota, Halliburton, and Lennox.
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NVIDIA, Wistron Kick Off Start of AI Supercomputer Factory in Fort Worth
NVIDIA and Wistron have announced the start of an AI supercomputer manufacturing facility at AllianceTexas in Fort Worth.
- Groundbreaking event held for the facility at Hillwood’s AllianceTexas in Fort Worth; the plants will assemble and test NVIDIA AI systems and use the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint and Physical AI technology.
- Wistron said the two Fort Worth plants represent a $761 million investment and are expected to eventually employ 888 employees; the properties include Westport 14 and 35 Eagle, purchased last summer.
- The article also references prior NVIDIA plans to produce up to $500 billion of AI infrastructure in the U.S. and notes related North Texas manufacturing projects by Coherent and Foxlink Group.
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Bristol Myers Squibb Building Life Science Industry’s Most Advanced AI Factory on NVIDIA Vera Rubin
Bristol Myers Squibb has announced it is deploying its second NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, built on eight DGX Vera Rubin NVL72 systems, to expand AI-driven drug discovery across its global research organization.
- The new system will be combined with BMS’s existing DGX SuperPOD into a unified environment with a single data plane accessible from every BMS site globally.
- BMS says the new cluster delivers up to 10x performance per megawatt versus the infrastructure it replaces and will support predictions, model training, and agentic workflows across the drug discovery pipeline.
- Researchers will use NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit and NVIDIA Mission Control; the company says complex predictions will be initiated in plain English.
- BMS says the earlier DGX SuperPOD has been in use for about three years and has already helped with target identification, CELMoD compound expansion, and lead optimization.
- The article is a company/news-style feature describing a new deployment and related capabilities, not a financial disclosure or pricing announcement.
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New York State just hit pause on the AI data center boom
New York State has announced a one-year moratorium on new hyperscale data centers while it develops a regulatory framework for permitting, community impacts, and grid protection.
- Governor Kathy Hochul signed an Executive Order described as the “nation’s first moratorium” on new hyperscale data centers, with the state halting environmental permits for up to one year.
- New York will create a Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) and a Community Investment Framework (CIF) within 60 days; the article also says the state is considering a fund tied to aging grid infrastructure and clean energy procurement.
- The proposed community contribution is $1 million per megawatt (MW) of anticipated utility demand per project, implying $50 million for 50 MW and $400 million for 400 MW.
- The piece is a news analysis/commentary article about policy and industry impacts, not a first-hand company announcement; it references prior and current policy moves in New York and quotes analysts on likely market effects.
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Lightpath to provide fiber infrastructure for two new hyperscale data center campuses
Lightpath has announced it will provide fiber infrastructure and multi-terabit capacity to support two hyperscale data center campuses under construction in the United States.
- The two campuses are planned to exceed one gigawatt each and are located in Saline, Michigan and Port Washington, Wisconsin.
- The Saline build is scheduled for delivery by the end of this year, while Port Washington is expected in Q2 2027; both are being delivered with an anchor hyperscale customer that was not named.
- Chris Morley said Lightpath is partnering with hyperscalers to build new fiber infrastructure for AI-driven demand; Tim Haverkate said the company will deliver route-diverse, multi-terabit capacity across new construction, existing network assets, and partner fiber.
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Patented: Topgolf’s Newest Award and More Inventions Across North Texas
Dallas Invents has reported a weekly roundup of patents granted in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, highlighting Topgolf’s new patent among other local assignees and inventors.
- Topgolf International, Inc. received U.S. Patent No. 12649095 for a Galton configuration in golf ball receiving apparatus and systems that uses RFID tags and an antenna reader to identify golf balls while avoiding jams.
- The article is a news roundup/commentary on patent activity, not a first-time corporate announcement; it also lists other grants to entities including Texas Instruments, Toyota, Samsung, Bank of America, Citibank, USAA, Halliburton, and Akamai.
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The Data Center Water Problem Is Soluble
ITIF has published a policy report arguing that data center water use can be managed through state-led regulation, standardized disclosure, watershed-based review, and targeted federal support.
- The report says states should require facility-level water disclosures, use watershed-specific performance standards, and establish joint water-energy review for large data center loads.
- It also recommends federal action on standardized metrics, procurement, and R&D rather than a national water mandate; examples cited include Nvidia Rubin liquid cooling and Microsoft zero-water cooling designs.
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New Jersey lawmakers pass bill to establish large load data center tariff
New Jersey lawmakers have passed a bill directing the state’s Board of Public Utilities to create a dedicated data center tariff for facilities of 50MW or more. The bill is now headed to Governor Mikie Sherrill for final approval.
- The bill applies to existing and new facilities, lowers the threshold from 100MW to 50MW, and aggregates sites under common ownership or on contiguous sites as one large data center.
- It requires projects to show they are not proposed elsewhere, provide financial guarantees covering at least 85% of requested service for 10 years, commit to demand response and flexibility programs, and be curtailed before residential customers during grid emergencies; it also prioritizes interconnection for data centers bringing clean generation or storage.
- The article also notes related actions in other states, including a new Oregon rate class, and laws or proposals in Oklahoma, Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, and Virginia.
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Pallone Backs National Moratorium on AI Data Centers
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. called for a national moratorium on AI data center development at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee markup.
- Main announcement: Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called Wednesday for a national moratorium on AI data center development during a House E&C Committee subcommittee markup (statement delivered on June 25, 2026).
- Context and background: The remarks were made at a House E&C Committee subcommittee markup where Pallone warned that Congress must take far stronger action to address the rapid expansion of data centers; the article is a report of that statement and does not present new legislative text, dollar amounts, or implementation timelines.