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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Hanton City Business Park (data center anchor).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Hanton City Investments LLC
- Address and locality
- Smithfield · Providence County · Rhode Island
- Official metro area
- Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 24 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000777
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.
- Electric utility
- Rhode Island Energy (Narragansett)
- Power source
- Grid
- Community response
- Provider label: opposed
- AI-use label (provider)
- mixed use
- Announced
- May 2026
Provider notes
Community. Smithfield Town Council voted 4-1 (May 5, 2025) to amend zoning to list data centers as "not permitted" in all districts; Hanton City Investments filed its application May 4 — one day before the vote — preserving pre-ban review (a use variance faces "a pretty high bar"). Council President Tassoni expects the developer to sue. The widely cited $59M is projected 30-year town tax REVENUE, not facility investment; the developer said the project "may never happen" absent a state tax break (RI SB 2346, a 30-year sales/use exemption, was held by the Senate as of April 2026).
What the source record says
No megawatt capacity has been publicly disclosed, so capacityMw is omitted. The $59M figure cited in coverage is projected town tax revenue over 30 years, not facility investment, so investmentUsd is not set. Additional coverage (Rhode Island Current, ecoRI News) returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch and is not cited; the Ocean State Media article is the single independently verified resolvable source. Coordinates are approximate Smithfield-area coordinates.
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
- 2026-05 · source-reported proposed
Hanton City Investments LLC (Ryan Polumbo of Revity Energy and John Branca) filed a zoning application for an industrial/warehousing park with a data center anchor tenant on undeveloped woodland near the Fidelity Investments campus. The application was filed May 4, 2026 — one day before the Smithfield Town Council voted 4-1 to ban data centers. No megawatt capacity has been publicly disclosed.
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Proposed data center still looms over Smithfield, even after town council enacts ban · Ocean State Media
- Smithfield puts the brakes on potential data center · Valley Breeze
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID hanton-city-smithfield-ri. 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-000777
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): mixed use
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Smithfield, RI · Providence (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Hanton City Investments LLC
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: May 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-05 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Rhode Island Energy (Narragansett)
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: opposed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-24
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · 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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