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🏠 NOT “REMOTE” FROM RESIDENTIAL HOMES

  • Zucker described the project as: (a) in a remote part of the Bell Works campus and (b) well removed from the main building.

  • But it sits just 91 feet from the property line of homes at the Reserve development.

  • The data center will devalue Holmdel properties, especially the homes located right at Bell Works.

🔊 24/7 NOISE

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  • Data centers operate around the clock.

  • Cooling systems, generators, and other equipment can produce persistent noise.

  • Low-frequency noise – travels easily through walls and human body - is harmful to residents, animals and wildlife.

A lawsuit was filed against a large data center in southern New Jersey over the noise it generates.

 

The lawsuit alleges:

  • The facility produces an “annoying” industrial humming noise that can be heard day and night.

  • “It’s a very loud industrial noise.”

  • “Sounds like a helicopter hovering, loud fans like you’re at an airport.”

  • The nonstop noise has interfered with their sleep and caused anxiety.

  • It has diminished property values in the community.

⛽ DIESEL GENERATORS & DRINKING WATER

The project is expected to include six to eight large industrial diesel generators.

 

On-site fuel storage equivalent to 30 tanker trucks.

 

Just 300 feet from a C-1 stream that feeds the Swimming River Reservoir, the source of drinking water for 300,000+ Monmouth County residents.

☣️ CONTAMINANTS & PFAS

Construction could disturb known contaminants and potentially mobilize PFAS (“forever chemicals”) toward the same C-1 stream.

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This is Not Theoretical
It happened!

September 11, 2026: Diesel fuel spilled from a data center into a tributary of the Hackensack River.

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  • A fuel release was detected from a storage tank.

  • More than 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel were spilled.

  • The result of a "computer glitch."

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⚡ MASSIVE ELECTRICITY DEMAND

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  • Could consume more than twice Holmdel’s total annual electricity use!

  • Adding enormous demand to the grid and potentially driving up electric bills.

  • Data centers accounted for 63% of capacity price increases in 2024.

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