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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Cielo Haines City Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Cielo Digital Infrastructure
- Address and locality
- Marion Road at State Road 544-East · Haines City · Polk County · Florida
- Official metro area
- Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 300 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 21 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000238
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 74 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- June 2026
Provider notes
Water. Cielo has requested 150,000 gallons/day. Haines City's pending SWFWMD Water Use Permit modification seeks to raise the city's total Floridan Aquifer allocation to 16.42M gal/day; city currently pumps ~7M of a permitted 10M gal/day and cannot cover the request without separate SWFWMD Governing Board approval.
Community. City commissioners Anne Huffman, Kim Downing, and Lekia Johnson have voiced opposition citing infrastructure, energy, water, traffic, and quality-of-life concerns. City was under Phase III water restrictions (once-weekly lawn watering) at time of public disclosure. No lawsuits identified as of Aug 2026.
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- Reported water use: The source note describes the amount as requested, not reported use.
What the source record says
300 MW planned, ~74-acre site along Marion Road and State Road 544 East, Haines City, Polk County -- pre-application stage (no site plan, zoning request, or development agreement filed as of Aug 2026), distinct from the already-tracked Lakeland (Ryan Companies/Project Swan) and Fort Meade (Stonebridge/Florida Ecopark) Polk County sites. No precise parcel address, investment figure, or jobs figure disclosed in any source found; coordinates are the Haines City area centroid, not the actual site. The Data Center Dynamics original report (sources[2]) returned a 403 on direct re-fetch this session -- corroborated via Yahoo Finance syndication and independent Citrus Tea investigative reporting citing city commission records; multiple other independent local outlets (WFLA, Fox 13 Tampa Bay, Bay News 9) covered the same story at headline level.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-11 · source-reported proposed
Cielo Digital Infrastructure held an initial meeting with Haines City on Nov 4, 2025; the Deputy City Manager signed a non-binding concurrence letter on Nov 17, 2025 -- roughly seven months before the project became public.
- 2026-07 · source-reported proposed
Project publicly disclosed via local news coverage of city commission records. No formal site plan, zoning request, or development agreement filed. Blocked pending Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) approval of a Water Use Permit modification; city officials say full approval is unlikely before end of 2026.
Sources and attribution
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- Florida data center project stalls amid water permit fight · Yahoo Finance (syndicating Data Center Dynamics)
- Haines City data center: new documents show what commissioners were told before the public, and when · The Citrus Tea
- Planned data center in Florida held back by lack of available water from city · Data Center Dynamics
- Haines City data center project stalled by water capacity shortage
- Haines City water limits puts data center plan on hold · Spectrum Bay News 9
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID cielo-haines-city-fl. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000238
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Marion Road at State Road 544-East, Haines City, FL · Polk (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Cielo Digital Infrastructure
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: June 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2025-11 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-07 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 74 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 300 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
The provider reports water information but no cooling type.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-21
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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