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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Middletown Technology Center (Cirrus Delaware LLC).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Cirrus Delaware, LLC
- Address and locality
- Middletown · 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: 40 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 1 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001779
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.
- Power source
- Mixed
- On-site generation
- 52.5 MW (source-reported)
- Land area
- 70 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced jobs
- 117 permanent · 750 construction
Provider notes
Energy. Per the applicant at the May 2016 IIC meeting, the facility would 'mostly pull power from the PJM grid from Middletown' over 138 kV lines from an adjacent substation. An on-site natural-gas cogeneration plant would supply redundancy and peak-period power within air-permit hour limits. DBT and Data Center Knowledge (2015) give the gas plant as 52.5 MW. At the 2016 IIC meeting the applicant described the data center as 40 MW, with 36 MW of white space at a design PUE of 1.4, for a 50 MW total requirement at full build.
What the source record says
Never built, and apparently dormant since the air-permit application was put on hold in October 2017. Status stays 'proposed' because no source records a formal withdrawal or cancellation. Treat the status as stalled, not active. The $7.5M state grant was conditional and reimbursement-only. No evidence was found that it was disbursed, so it is not recorded in subsidies. Sources disagree on cost: $250M (DCK 2015), about $400M (DBT 2015) and $350M (applicant, IIC 2016), so investmentUsd is unset. Jobs figures are the applicant's 2016 IIC projections. DBT 2015 cited 'more than 100' full-time and up to 2,000 construction jobs. Partners named at the IIC meeting were Duffield Associates (now Verdantas), MEP Associates and landowner Mautom, LLC. The end operator was never disclosed. The pin is Middletown's OSM boundary centroid, because the 70-acre Westown parcel did not resolve to a point.
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
- 2015 · source-reported proposed
Middletown Town Council approved plans for the Middletown Technology Center: a 228,000 sq ft, 40 MW data center with a natural-gas cogeneration plant on 70 acres in the town's Westown area. DBT reports the approval came in August 2015. Data Center Knowledge's report is dated Aug 5, 2015.
- 2016-05-04 · source-reported proposed
Delaware Infrastructure Investment Committee voted 4-0 to approve up to $7.5M in New Jobs Infrastructure Fund money for the project's utility infrastructure. The approval was conditioned on a DNREC air permit, financing disclosure, identification of the operator, and payment on a reimbursement basis.
- 2017-10 · source-reported proposed
Per the dcmap.us activity log, Cirrus put its Middletown air-permit application on hold. No later activity was found.
Sources and attribution
- Plans afoot for Middletown data center, power plant (70 acres, 228,000 sq ft, 40 MW, 52.5 MW co-generation) · Delaware Business Times
- Delaware Infrastructure Investment Committee minutes, May 4, 2016: Cirrus Delaware, LLC request for up to $7,500,000 · Delaware Economic Development Office
- Officials Approve Data Center and Cogen Plant Project in Delaware · Data Center Knowledge
- Delaware Data Center Map: Cirrus Delaware Middletown Technology Center, 'Paused' (Mar 2016 air-permit application; Oct 2017 put on hold) · dcmap.us
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1+reviewed-2610e0556b3d, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID cirrus-delaware-middletown-technology-center-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-001779
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
- Middletown, DE · New Castle (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Cirrus Delaware, 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.
- Status history: 2015 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2016-05-04 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2017-10 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 70 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 40 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.
- Power source: Mixed
Provider label.
- On-site generation: 52.5 MW (source-reported)
On-site figures often describe backup generators rather than primary supply; read the provider energy note.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced jobs: 117 permanent · 750 construction
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-01
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
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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