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Releases, statements, reports and the occasional legal notice, newest first. Incidents and scheduled work are on the status page.
2026
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Our energy and diesel figures for 2025
Annual PUE fell to 1.43 at SEC1 and 1.31 at NWK1. Generator run time at SEC1 was dominated by one afternoon in June.
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Level 2 at NWK1 opens with eight Dry Floor suites
The second floor of our Newark building is commissioned: 33,600 square feet of private suites, 25.1 feet above the base flood elevation, with liquid cooling to every suite.
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Both sites switch their generators to renewable diesel
From this month every generator at SEC1 and NWK1 runs on hydrotreated renewable diesel. What it changes for emissions, and what it does not.
2025
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Changes to generator testing at SEC1, and why
After complaints from neighbors about diesel fumes, monthly tests move to Tuesday mornings, run on half the sets at a time, and every set now has emissions controls.
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Our report on the June 24 generator fire at SEC1
PIR-2025-03 sets out what caused the fire, why Hall 2 overheated after it, what we have changed and how affected customers will be credited.
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Statement on yesterday’s generator fire at SEC1
A fire in the exhaust of one generator during a utility outage was put out by our engineers within minutes. No one was hurt. Some customer equipment in Hall 2 shut down on temperature.
2024
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SEC1’s perimeter flood barrier is complete
1,940 feet of wall and berm and seven deployable gates now surround SEC1 to 19.5 feet, a foot above our new design flood elevation.
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Notice of public sale of abandoned customer equipment
Equipment left at SEC1 by a former customer will be sold under the terms of its agreement and the warehouse lien provisions of New Jersey law.
2023
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Hall 4, the first Dry Floor, opens at SEC1
A new steel-framed level above SEC1’s existing halls adds 18,900 square feet of space 24.2 feet above the base flood elevation, with its own power train.
2022
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We are raising our design flood elevation to 18.5 feet
New sea-level projections moved the numbers our buildings were designed around. We are moving our buildings to match: the Raise program, $41.6 million over three years.
2021
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Both sites ran normally through Wednesday night’s flooding. Sedgebank Road did not. A few notes on what we saw.
2020
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Our second building opens on 412 piles, 8.4 feet above the base flood elevation, three months late and with fewer people at the ribbon than we planned.
2019
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Ground broken for NWK1 in Newark
Piling begins on a 9.4-acre site near Port Newark for a purpose-built second data center of 212,400 square feet.
2017
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Five years on: what the water taught us
Our co-founder on the week in October 2012 that started this company, and why we measure everything we build against a line on a wall.
2016
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SEC1 completes its first SOC 2 Type II examination
An independent auditor has examined our controls over a twelve-month period. The report is available to customers under a non-disclosure agreement.
2015
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Cordgrass Data opens SEC1 in Secaucus
A 1973 warehouse, rebuilt with its data halls on a new deck 6.8 feet above the base flood elevation, opens with two halls and its first eleven customers.