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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Sanford Woods Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- New England Energy
- Address and locality
- Sanford · York County · Maine
- Official metro area
- Portland-South Portland, ME
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 4 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001919
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
- Land area
- 1,060 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced
- February 2026
Provider notes
Energy. Planned to be powered off-grid by on-site generation: a hydrogen fuel-cell plant (initially natural gas, transitioning to hydrogen within ~5 years) plus solar.
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- Reported water use: 0.3 MGD is stated for the full mixed-use campus, not the data center.
- Provider water note: Water quantity is explicitly campus-wide rather than attributable to this facility.
What the source record says
Reported capacity range is 100-300 MW (not a firm committed figure; omitted from capacityMw pending a formal filing). Proposed as one component of the 1,060-acre 'Sanford Woods Industrial and Technical Campus' in south Sanford, bisected by the Mousam River, on land owned since 1975 by the Gibbs family's New England Energy (Randy Gibbs, founder of Multifuels of Houston, TX; co-developer Walt Bussells). Co-located with a planned 300 MW hydrogen fuel-cell power plant (tracked separately as new-england-energy-sanford-woods-power-me), a 50-acre industrial greenhouse, and a cold-storage facility. Cumulative campus investment reported at ~$2.16 billion with ~100 long-term jobs campus-wide -- both figures span the whole campus, not the data center alone, so they are not recorded as this facility's investmentUsd/jobs. Disclosed to the Maine Legislature's Energy and Utilities Committee in February 2026; marketing, partner selection, financing and permitting expected to take ~2 years. Maine's 2026 data-center moratorium debate would allow continued groundwork but block new construction permits before 2028.
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
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
- Company eyes Sanford site for data center · Sanford Spring Vale News
- Data center could pump $2 billion into city · Sanford Spring Vale News
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1+reviewed-2610e0556b3d, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID new-england-energy-sanford-woods-dc-me. 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-001919
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
- Sanford, ME · York (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: New England Energy
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: February 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 1,060 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
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- Power source: Mixed
Provider label.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-04
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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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