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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Florida Ecopark AI Data Center Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Stonebridge (via Florida Ecopark LLC; end tenant undisclosed)
- Address and locality
- Fort Meade · Polk County · Florida
- Official metro area
- Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL
- 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
- 10 September 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-001373
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
- Duke Energy Florida
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 200 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $2.6 billion
- Announced jobs
- 450 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- March 2026
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- 10-year property-tax abatement under a 20-year development agreement (reported ~$150M value, tied to ~$2.6B planned investment) · Fort Meade, FL · 2026 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Expected to be powered by Duke Energy (near its Hines Energy Complex); Fort Meade residents currently receive power through the Florida Municipal Power Agency. No on-site generation reported.
Water. Stonebridge states it will use a closed-loop system to recycle cooling water; the City of Fort Meade reserved 50,000 gallons/day of potable water for the project (down from an original 150,000-gallon request), which the developer says serves restrooms and kitchens rather than cooling. Residents raised concerns that actual demand could exceed the city's limits, and no SWFWMD water-use permit had been filed as of April 2026.
Community. Florida Commerce Secretary Alex Kelly called project 'fundamentally flawed' in April 17, 2026 letter citing water, energy, and transportation risks. Environmental advocates questioned water usage claims (reduced from 140,000 to 50,000 gallons/day) and generator emissions. Fort Meade Planning Commission recommended approval unanimously April 8, 2026. Fort Meade City Commission approved 20-year development agreement approximately April 15, 2026; 40 of 41 public commenters opposed at hearing. …
What the source record says
1,300-acre former phosphate mine site; 200-acre data center footprint. 20-year development agreement approved by Fort Meade City Commission approximately April 15, 2026. Requires 1.2 GW of electricity. No identified lessee or buyer publicly disclosed. Water use reduced in plans from 140,000 to 50,000 gallons daily; Southwest Florida Water Management District approval pending separately. Florida SB 484 signed May 2026 added new state-level data center siting requirements. Coordinates are Fort Meade city centroid; actual site is former phosphate mine outside city limits. Re-checked 2026-09-10: status unchanged at 'proposed'. The 20-year development agreement was unanimously approved by Fort Meade commissioners (2026-04-15), but two resident lawsuits filed 2026-05-14 seek to void that approval and block construction-permit issuance (trial scheduled November 2027), and a recall effort against three commissioners is itself now in litigation (Commissioner Matthew Taylor sued 2026-09-09 to stop the recall). No groundbreaking reported. Exact street address still not found in public reporting (site described only as 'west of US-98' on former phosphate-mine land) - missing:address could not be filled this pass.
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
- 2026-03 · source-reported proposed
Stonebridge/Florida Ecopark LLC proposed development on 1,300-acre former phosphate mine; data center footprint 200 acres
- 2026-04-08 · source-reported proposed
Fort Meade Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend approval of 20-year development agreement
- 2026-04-15 · source-reported proposed
Fort Meade City Commission approved 20-year development agreement despite near-unanimous public opposition; outstanding water use and grid interconnection permits required before construction can proceed
- 2026-04-17 · source-reported proposed
Florida Commerce Secretary Alex Kelly called project fundamentally flawed over water, energy, and transportation risks in letter to Fort Meade
Sources and attribution
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- Fort Meade is one step closer to building Florida's first hyperscale AI data center · WUSF
- DeSantis admin hits Florida city over hyperscale data center proposal · Tampa Bay Times
- Florida secretary of commerce raises concerns over $2.6B Fort Meade data center plan · FOX 13 Tampa Bay
- Florida Data Center Plan Advances Amid Local Backlash · Propmodo
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID stonebridge-fort-meade-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-001373
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): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Fort Meade, FL · Polk (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Stonebridge (via Florida Ecopark LLC; end tenant undisclosed)
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: March 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-03 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-04-08 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-04-15 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-04-17 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 200 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: Duke Energy Florida
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 investment: $2.6 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 450 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: 10-year property-tax abatement under a 20-year development agreement (reported ~$150M value, tied to ~$2.6B planned investment) · Fort Meade, FL · 2026
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-10
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
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Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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