Telx’s first reported ground-up data-center project was NJR3, a three-story facility on the company’s Clifton, New Jersey, campus. In June 2013, the company reported the building complete, with one of six planned data halls finished at that point. Telx described the project as a way to add a purpose-built site to its greater New York footprint, which it had served for 13 years.
What Telx built in Clifton
Data Center Knowledge reported in June 2013 that NJR3 was a $200 million greenfield project and a 215,000-square-foot building. “Greenfield” distinguished it from Telx’s earlier carrier-hotel presence: rather than operating in space within existing buildings, Telx could design this facility from the ground up. The campus also included the adjacent NJR2 facility.
A Telx announcement republished by Markets Media described NJR3 as 215,000 gross square feet and said it added more than 100,000 square feet of data-center space. Those are project-era reported figures, not current capacity measurements.
How much capacity was planned—and complete in June 2013?
Telx planned six data halls, each with 15,000 square feet of technical space and 2.7 megawatts of power capacity. At the time of the June 2013 report, the first hall was complete. The six-hall figure describes the plan, not six halls already in operation.
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The reported building area and hall figures describe different measures: the 215,000 square feet refers to the building, while 15,000 square feet refers to technical space in each planned hall. The available reporting does not establish NJR3’s eventual build-out or its present-day capacity.
How the building was designed for resilience
The June 2013 account described a layered electrical design: two separate utility feeds, a 2N uninterruptible power supply (UPS) configuration, and N+1 generator redundancy. Telx had installed three 3-megawatt generators to support the first phase. These are the configuration and equipment figures reported for the project at that time, not a statement of current operation.
The three-story layout separated customer equipment from much of the building’s mechanical and electrical infrastructure:
- The first floor housed mechanical and electrical infrastructure.
- The second and third floors were customer data floors, with three halls planned on each.
- Each customer floor was designed with a separate cooling-room-air-handler (CRAH) gallery.
- Chillers sat on the roof above the galleries. Telx said its design aimed to keep water pipes out of the space above server equipment and limit roof penetrations.
Telx’s January 2013 announcement, republished by Markets Media, said NJR3 achieved Uptime Institute Tier III status. A later 2013 Telx announcement republished by Telecom Ramblings described a Tier III “Concurrently Maintainable” certification. The same later announcement discussed a SOC 2 examination for other Telx facilities; it does not establish that NJR3 was included in that examination.
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Physical security and the flood-zone claim
Security measures described in the 2013 report included perimeter fencing designed to deter climbing, fiber-optic intrusion detection, infrared cameras, vehicle barriers, multiple guard houses, and biometric fingerprint or iris access inside the building.
The report also said Telx positioned NJR3 as outside the FEMA 500-year flood zone. That is Telx’s project-era claim as reported in 2013, not an independent or current flood-risk assessment.
Carrier connectivity and intended customers
The report named Zayo, Sidera, LightPath, FiberTech, Level 3, Verizon, and XO Communications among carriers connected to NJR3 through multiple conduits. Telx said customers could connect with its sites at 60 Hudson Street and 111 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, as well as the adjacent NJ2 site.
Telx presented Clifton as a lower-total-cost-of-ownership alternative to its carrier hotels for financial-services firms. The workload examples included back-testing engines, back-office systems, development, and trading support. Those were Telx’s sales positioning and examples, not independently measured savings or a comparative cost study.
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Michael Terlizzi, Telx’s Executive Vice President of Operations, said building from the ground up let the company apply lessons learned as a tenant and incorporate customer feedback. He described the approach this way: “Because we operate in carrier hotels and buy from wholesale providers, we can observe what works and what doesn’t and implement the best practices.”
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.What NJR3 represented for Telx
NJR3 marked a shift from placing equipment in existing carrier-hotel buildings to developing a purpose-built facility in Clifton. Its reported design combined planned large-scale technical space, redundant power, separated cooling infrastructure, physical security, and access to Telx’s interconnection network. Telx’s stated case for the site was that it could serve customers needing room and power for workloads such as financial-services support systems while offering an alternative to its carrier hotels.
These sources document NJR3 as it was reported and announced in 2013. They do not establish the facility’s current owner, operator branding, live capacity, certification status, or service availability.
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