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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Project Swan.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Ryan Companies (end operator TBD)
- Address and locality
- 923 Wilkinson Road · Lakeland · Polk County · Florida
- Official metro area
- Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL
- Source-reported status
- cancelled
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not established; source review excludes the published figure
- Source freshness
- 2 October 2026
- Location precision
- exact (provider label)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001270
100 MW is described as contingent utility demand, not a demonstrated planned IT-capacity value. The upstream row remains attributed below, but this value is not repeated as site capacity.
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
- Lakeland Electric
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 60.5 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: opposed
Provider notes
Energy. Bay News 9 (2026-07-06) reported that Project Swan would need about 100 MW, contingent on Lakeland Electric being able to supply it. The mayor said the utility's largest current customer is 18 MW.
Water. The developer said water use would be limited to everyday operational needs, not server cooling. The cooling method was not identified.
Community. More than 50 residents attended the June 1, 2026 Lakeland City Commission meeting to oppose the proposed 'Project Swan' hyperscale data center, with 18 speaking against it during audience comments. Resident Magdalene DuPree called the project 'a bad fit' and objected to a facility 'extracting value from us.' A grassroots petition campaign and coalition rally pushed the City Commission to consider a temporary data-center moratorium. No organized support for the project was documented in coverage reviewed.
What the source record says
600,000 sq ft across 3 buildings on 60.5 acres (4 parcels, near 923 Wilkinson Rd). Zoning may prohibit the project — data centers are not in Lakeland's Land Development Code — and part of the site is unincorporated Polk County, requiring annexation.
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 · source-reported proposed
600,000 sq ft / 3-building proposal at Old Tampa Hwy & Wilkinson Rd; zoning may prohibit and site needs annexation.
- 2026-06 · source-reported cancelled
CONFLICTING REPORTING - flag for maintainer judgment before applying. A 2026-06-03 city clarification (WUSF/LkldNow 'Still Active') said the applicant only withdrew from a June 3 Development Review Team meeting, not the application itself, after it was mistakenly marked withdrawn in the city's iMS system. But this 2026-09-01 piece states flatly the application 'had already been withdrawn in June' and that no data-center applications were pending when Lakeland passed its 1-year, 50MW-threshold moratorium on 2026-08-03. Reporting as cancelled on the more recent, more specific source, but the earlier contradiction should be checked.
Sources and attribution
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- Hyperscale data center proposed for Lakeland · LkldNow
- Project Swan: what is the proposed Lakeland data center? · WFLA
- Polk County parcel/GIS record (parcel 232822091000000300) · Polk County GIS / Assessor
- Lakeland residents question environmental impact of proposed 'Project Swan' data center · FOX 13 Tampa Bay
- After backlash over Project Swan, some call for data center moratorium in Lakeland · Tampa Bay 28 / WFTS
- Coalition Rallies Against Lakeland Data Center Proposal · Lakeland Gazette
- Lakeland, Florida just paused a 600,000-square-foot, 100-megawatt data center on a 4-3 commission vote
- Data center developer addresses public as Lakeland considers moratorium · Spectrum Bay News 9
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID ryan-companies-project-swan-lakeland-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-001270
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.
Location and precision
- 923 Wilkinson Road, Lakeland, FL · Polk (Exact location)
Roles
- Operator: Ryan Companies (end operator TBD)
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported cancelled
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2026 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-06 · source-reported cancelled
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 60.5 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not established; source review excludes the published figure
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Lakeland Electric
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
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: opposed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-02
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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