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Reported geography
Source-reported location for White Clay Corporate Center Data Center Redevelopment.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Shelbourne
- Address and locality
- White Clay Center Drive · Newark · New Castle County · Delaware
- Official metro area
- Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 12 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001317
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.
- Land area
- 44 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
Provider notes
Community. A county councilman publicly brokered a pause after community/political pressure, but the arrangement is a non-binding handshake conditioned on a zoning workaround; the councilman acknowledged its fragility ('If I'm not there, there's no promises'). The developer (Shelbourne) and its attorney did not respond to press requests for comment.
What the source record says
Reported square footage differs across filings/coverage as plans evolved: 676,000 sq ft (Spotlight Delaware, plans filed early Dec 2025) vs. 847,000 sq ft (Newark Post, later filing) — both recorded here rather than resolved to one figure. Capacity in MW is explicitly 'undetermined' per Delmarva Power's internal project list obtained via FOIA and reported by Technical.ly (sourceIndex 3), so capacityMw is left unset. Location precision is approximate: this pin is Newark, DE's city centroid (OSM); the specific parcel on White Clay Center Drive (near the Ogletown Road/Del. 273 and CarMax intersection) did not resolve via US Census or OSM Nominatim geocoding — tried the bare street name, a structured street+city+state query, and the 'CarMax Newark DE' landmark; all returned no match.
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
- 2025-12 · source-reported proposed
Exploratory plans filed with New Castle County in early December 2025 to redevelop White Clay Center Drive industrial buildings (including former JPMorganChase offices) into a 676,000 sq ft complex; a later filing described an 847,000 sq ft data center complex on the 44-acre site, demolishing seven existing buildings for three light-industrial buildings plus a guard shack.
- 2026-06 · source-reported proposed
Non-binding pause negotiated by New Castle County Councilman Tim Sheldon with developer's attorney Shawn Tucker (email dated 2026-06-10), contingent on the county approving an exploratory-plan application that would grandfather the site under pre-2026 zoning and exempt it from the county's new data-center ordinance. Developer retains the legal right to build a data center on the property.
Sources and attribution
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- Two New Castle County industrial projects may become data centers · Spotlight Delaware
- Data center complex proposed near Newark · Newark Post
- County councilman says Newark data center plan paused after deal · Newark Post / Spotlight Delaware
- Newly public records reveal four pending Delaware data center projects · Technical.ly
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID shelbourne-white-clay-newark-de. 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-001317
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
- White Clay Center Drive, Newark, DE · New Castle (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Shelbourne
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.
- Status history: 2025-12 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-06 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 44 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
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: 2026-09-12
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Not yet recorded here: 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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