By Maria M. Silva
Publication Date: 2026-08-07 10:00:00
WARWICK — The Jehovah’s Witnesses have purchased a former IBM office and data center near the organization’s world headquarters in Orange County.
The religious group — through its companies Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York — bought the property at 299-300 Long Meadow Road in the town of Warwick from Kyndryl, IBM’s former infrastructure services unit, which separated into an independent, publicly traded company in 2021.
The property spans a 68-acre campus that dates back to 1972 and includes a 433,000-square-foot data center. The Jehovah’s Witnesses world headquarters, which opened in 2016 after relocating from Brooklyn, is about a mile away from the site.
An unnamed spokesperson for the organization based in Putnam County said in an email that planning for the property is still in the early stages and that the religious group is evaluating how the facility will be used “to support our religious activities.”
The spokesperson declined to provide more…
