The East Windsor Township Planning Board has postponed a vote on QTS Data Centers' application to establish a second data center building in East Windsor, New Jersey.

As reported by TAPinto, the vote is now pushed to a third meeting to discuss the proposal, after the board was unable to conclude hearing testimony from locals during the April 27 meeting.

The data center has been proposed for a property already owned by QTS where the company has an existing data center. According to the company's website, the property spans 52 acres with more than 70MW of critical power capacity and an on-site substation.

QTS wants to build a second data center at the site located at 159 Princeton-Hightstown Road, East Windsor, New Jersey.

The meeting was held at the East Windsor Senior Center, and according to TAPinto, every seat was filled. Concerns voiced by attendees surrounded whether the project would increase utility bills for locals. On behalf of QTS, Charles River Associates VP Matthew DeCourcey attempted to reassure that this was not the case.

The company has said it will pay for any infrastructure costs related to the data center, and has said that it will pay the same rate for electricity as other businesses.

The data center would use a closed-loop system for cooling to minimize water usage.

Joe Horesco, mechanical engineer for QTS, told attendees that his study on sound and vibrations from the data center would be under 200 decibels even in worst-case scenarios, and vibration would be between 2,000 and 4,000 micro inches per second.

Meanwhile, Robert LaCosta, QTS senior director, said that the data center would contribute $2m in tax revenue to the region, as well as approximately $300,000 to the township’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

With testimony unable to be completed during the session, no vote was taken and will instead go to the May 4 meeting.

Elsewhere in New Jersey, QTS operates data centers in Jersey City and Piscataway.

Earlier this month, QTS was looking to raise $4.6 billion to fund its AI data center build-out, beginning with the sale of a 10-year investment-grade green bond.

East Windsor is located near Trenton, towards the center of the state. Most of New Jersey's data centers, however, are located near the state border with New York, in part due to the proximity to the stock exchanges. Operators in the state include CyrusOne, Digital Realty, Equinix, Cogent, and DataBank, among others.