CoreWeave NEST Campus
CoreWeave is building a 250 MW data center in Union County, New Jersey (under construction). 3 sources report this facility in the Kapwork Grow tracker.
- Capacity
- 250 MW
- Investment
- $1.8B
- Building area
- 280,000 sq ft
- Site
- 27 acres
- Expected completion
- 2027
Who's on this build
Named in the cited sources. No source reports who builds it.
- Other CoreWeave builds
Operator
CoreWeave
Utility
PSE&G
Schedule
Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred.
- next year
Expected completionPlanned
- Today
Under construction
Last material change Sep 24, 2026.
- 12 mo ago
Construction start
- ~2 yr ago
Announced
Reported updates without an event date
Reported for 2027.
Event date: Not reported · First observed: Not reported
Reported for 2025-09.
Event date: Not reported · First observed: Not reported
Reported for 2025.
Event date: Not reported · First observed: Not reported
Record quality
- Datasets
- 2, all agree
- Location
- Site footprint confirmed
- Summary
- From published records
- Source as of
- Last material change
Site and infrastructure
CA Compute AtlasSC Server CountryPE Public Evidence ProjectKW Kapwork Grow tracker record
Status
- Operator
- CoreWeave
- Tenants
- CoreWeave
- Stage
- Under construction
- Facility type
- AI data center
Scale
- Reported capacity
- 250 MW
- Reported investment
- $1.8B
- Reported building area
- 280,000 sq ft
- Site area
- 27 acres
- Reported jobs
- 143
Reported dates
- Announced
- 2024-10
- Construction start reported
- 2025-09
- Expected completion
- 2027
Site
- City
- Kenilworth
- County
- Union
- State
- New Jersey
- Location precision
- Site footprint confirmed
- Community response
- Local opposition reported
Power and cooling
- Utility
- PSE&G
- Power source
- Grid power
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- AI workload
- Confirmed AI or machine-learning workload
Permits and public records
- Government records on file
- 1
- Incentives reported
- New Jersey EDA 'Next New Jersey — AI' tax credit — up to $250M ($50M/year for five years, performance-based, 10-year retention); CoreWeave was the first award under the program, which NJ later froze (New Jersey)
Sources, method and limits
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What each source reports
| Dataset | Reported name | Reported status | Reported MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compute Atlas | CoreWeave NEST Campus | Under construction | 250 MW |
| Server Country | CoreWeave NEST Campus | Under construction | 250 MW |
Sources and evidence
- CACompute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0)As of: Jul 6, 2026 · Record: coreweave-kenilworth-nj
- CAReal Estate NJ (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 5, 2026
- CANews 12 New Jersey (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 5, 2026
- CANews 12 New Jersey (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 6, 2026
- CAData Center Dynamics (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 6, 2026
- CANJ Economic Development Authority (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 6, 2026
- SCServer Country project record (CC BY 4.0)As of: Sep 24, 2026 · Record: 0328
- PEPublic Evidence Project: Subsidy from NJ Economic Development AuthorityAs of: Aug 6, 2026 · Record: source-coreweave-kenilworth-nj
- KWKapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here (free account)As of: Sep 23, 2026 · Record: 16944016469936
Limitations and interpretation
- This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-09-23. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
- Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0) · Server Country, https://servercountry.org/data/ (CC BY 4.0) · Public Evidence Project, U.S. Data Center Public Records Dataset, https://publicevidence.org/data/national-data-center-public-records (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
- An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
- Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.
Cite or correct this record
Kapwork Grow, “CoreWeave NEST Campus”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/coreweave-nest-campus-nj-dc_0f6916152fb0, materially updated Sep 24, 2026.
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