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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Project Washington (Starwood Digital Ventures).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Starwood Digital Ventures
- Address and locality
- Delaware City · 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
- Planned: 1,200 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 6 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-001368
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
- Delmarva Power & Light
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 580 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced jobs
- 3,500 construction
- Community response
- Provider label: litigation
- AI-use label (provider)
- mixed use
- Announced
- July 2025
Provider notes
Energy. Primary supply from the PJM grid via Delmarva Power & Light's Red Lion substation. The project's 516 on-site diesel generators are emergency backup, not primary generation; no on-site gas generation is proposed.
Water. Starwood states the campus would use about 12.7 million gallons of water per year at full build-out, with a one-time ~600,000-gallon fill for its closed-loop cooling system; the regulatory filing cited a broader range of roughly 9.9-20 million gallons/year, and reviewers questioned whether that is low for a 1.2 GW campus.
Community. DNREC Secretary denied Coastal Zone Act permit February 4, 2026 citing 516 backup diesel generators and 2.5 million gallons of stored diesel as unprecedented heavy industrial use under Delaware's 1971 Coastal Zone Act. Starwood appealed to Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board; hearing held March 24-26, 2026. Board UNANIMOUSLY UPHELD the denial March 26, 2026. Starwood expected to appeal to Delaware Superior Court and potentially Delaware Supreme Court; full resolution estimated 18 months to three years. First major CZA denial for a project of this scale in Delaware history. …
What the source record says
Largest proposed data center in Delaware history. 11 two-story buildings, 5 substations, 1 switch station, 516 emergency diesel generators on 580 acres. CZA permit denied February 4, 2026; denial unanimously upheld by Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board March 26, 2026. Appeal to Delaware Superior Court anticipated. Delaware Building Trades Council exclusive union labor agreement in place. Original $9.7B investment figure removed — not confirmed in any cited source. Coordinates approximate for Delaware City area.
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
- 2025-07 · source-reported proposed
Starwood Digital proposed 11-building, 1.2 GW hyperscale campus on 580 acres adjacent to former Delaware City Refinery land (Hamburg Road/River Road/Governor Lea Road).
Sources and attribution
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- Delaware City data center faces major setback after environmental denial · Spotlight Delaware
- Starwood Digital Ventures makes its case to overturn Coastal Zone ruling against its data center plan · Delaware Public Media
- DNREC Coastal Zone Status Decision — Starwood Digital Ventures (CZA-448SD) · Delaware DNREC
- Delaware City data center environmental denial upheld by state board · Spotlight Delaware
- Starwood files to develop 1.2GW, 11-building data center campus in Delaware · DataCenterDynamics
- Proposed Delaware City data center could use between 10 to 20 million gallons of water a year · WHYY
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID starwood-digital-project-washington-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-001368
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
- Delaware City, DE · New Castle (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Starwood Digital Ventures
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: July 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2025-07 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 580 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 1,200 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.
- Electric utility: Delmarva Power & Light
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced jobs: 3,500 construction
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: litigation
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-06
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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