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Kenilworth (NEST)

Kenilworth is a tracked AI data center campus in New Jersey, Union. $1.2B lease of 280,000 sq ft at Northeast Science and Technology Center

Under construction · CoreWeave · Kenilworth, Union, New Jersey, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

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Kenilworth (NEST) capacity claims
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Construction evidence

Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.

2018-07-07Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2018
2020-07-06Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
2022-09-02Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022
2024-09-03Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024
2025-08-22Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025

Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones synthesized from the campus's own capacity ledger, financial claims, and lifecycle events; each chip links to its source. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.

Per-building manifest tied to the site polygons and imagery. When we know a building's outline we render it; when we know only its year and capacity we still surface those as first-class rows so the campus total is auditable, not a headline claim. Sorted largest-first; top 6 shown by default of 13.

Building 190
Building sqft: 297,704
polygon on record (43 vertices)
Building 79
Building sqft: 180,554
polygon on record (25 vertices)
Building 76
Building sqft: 147,580
polygon on record (13 vertices)
Building 65
Building sqft: 117,691
polygon on record (25 vertices)
Building 34
Building sqft: 107,181
polygon on record (30 vertices)
Building 80
Building sqft: 99,393
polygon on record (25 vertices)

Manifest totals: 1,463,300 sqft. Rolled from the per-building rows above.

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

0 GW

Energized

CoreWeave

Developer

United States

Location

2

Facilities tracked

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

Named tenants
CoreWeave
Initial lease / investment (announced)
Oct 28 2024 CoreWeave signed a long-term lease for the entire ~280,000 sq ft Building 11 NEST at the Northeast Science & Technology Center in Kenilworth, NJ (former Merck campus; Onyx Equities / Machine Investment Group), planning to invest $1.2 billion to convert it into CoreWeave's first New Jersey data center (Onyx / CoreWeave via PR Newswire, Oct 28 2024)
Utility partner (announced)
PSE&G is preparing electrical infrastructure for the Kenilworth facility; the announcement cites PSE&G already serving over 30 large data centers in New Jersey (Onyx / CoreWeave via PR Newswire, Oct 28 2024)
Campus context (announced)
11 NEST sits on a 100+ acre, ~2M sq ft campus purpose-built/zoned for life science and data centers after Onyx/Machine/Pivot acquired the former Merck global HQ in Feb 2023 (Onyx / CoreWeave via PR Newswire, Oct 28 2024)
Purchase / expanded project (local press)
Local real-estate press reports CoreWeave later purchased 11 NEST plus about 27 adjacent acres for $322M (Aug 2025), and that NJ EDA materials describe a nearly $1.8B / about 250 MW project of roughly 392,600 sq ft (retrofit plus new build) with construction from mid-Sep 2025 and operations targeted early 2027, plus a $250M Next New Jersey AI tax credit. Treat MW, capex, and EDA figures as reported via EDA/press, not a CoreWeave IR release (Real Estate NJ, Nov 25 2025; NJBIZ on acquisition)

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In clusterUnion(5)·New Jersey(88)

The deal

developer
CoreWeave

Power

Power source
grid
Interconnection

County water status: No drought in Union County, week of 2026-10-06 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Kenilworth is in New Jersey, Union. It draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States

Facilities at this campus

Sources

2ef2e9ff-9dee-4eac-b45f-6405de5e677e · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

Kenilworth vs US East LGA1 →Kenilworth vs Kenilworth Expansion →Kenilworth vs Polaris Forge 1 Building 2 →Kenilworth vs Wyoming campus →Kenilworth vs Galaxy Helios Campus →

Common questions

What is Kenilworth (NEST)?
Kenilworth (NEST) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Kenilworth. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
Who is building Kenilworth (NEST)?
CoreWeave is recorded as a party to Kenilworth (NEST) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Kenilworth (NEST) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Kenilworth (NEST) is under construction. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Kenilworth (NEST)?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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We notify you when energized capacity, lifecycle state, or a new dated capacity claim changes against primary-source evidence, not when the developer issues a press release.

Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). Kenilworth (NEST): AI data center campus record. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/coreweave-kenilworth

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