Maine data centers: what the public record shows.

These notes name selected records, say which kinds of public evidence were checked and show what remains missing. They do not add anything to the published counts.

• economic development incentives — Partly checked
  • No Pine Tree Development Zone certification list or TIF district register was opened.
  • Maine Revenue Services sales and use tax exemption material was not consulted.
  • the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for this state, so the incentive audit was limited to pages reachable by exact URL.

  Selected records

  • Maine Department of Economic and Community Development · Maine Department of Economic and Community Development
• utility commission large load — Partly checked
  • The open-case grid was not paged beyond the first 20 records.
  • No case-title or full-text search of Maine PUC cases was actually executed.
  • No Versant Power or Central Maine Power large-load tariff, ESA or interconnection record was consulted, and ISO New England queue material was not checked.

  Selected records

  • Maine PUC Case Management System – All Open Cases list · Maine Public Utilities Commission
  • Maine PUC Case Management System – Advanced Search for Cases or Documents · Maine Public Utilities Commission
• environmental construction permits — Partly checked
  • No Maine DEP air, site location, stormwater or natural resources permit was opened for any of the three leads.
  • The Compute Atlas note that no permits were issued for the Jay project was not verified against a DEP or town permit record.
  • Municipal building and site plan permits were not reachable for Jay, Wiscasset or Limestone.

  Selected records

  • Maine DEP public file archive – air licence directories (ch115, ch171, Title V) · Maine Department of Environmental Protection
  • Site Location of Development, Land Resources – Maine DEP · Maine Department of Environmental Protection
• municipal planning assessor gis — Checked
  • The Maine statewide parcel layer has no owner or assessor attributes, so no Maine research lead could be tied to a parcel.
  • Wiscasset and Limestone town sites could not be searched (JavaScript widget and no index respectively); no planning board or selectboard minute was read for any Maine site.
  • Jay select board agendas and minutes archives were not paged back to the 2025 warrant that reportedly backed the data center plan.

  Selected records

  • Maine Parcels Organized Towns – Wiscasset, Old Ferry Road parcels · Maine Office of GIS / Maine GeoLibrary
  • Maine Parcels Organized Towns – Jay, Riley Road parcels · Maine Office of GIS / Maine GeoLibrary
  • Maine Parcels Organized Towns – Limestone, Loring Commerce Road parcels · Maine Office of GIS / Maine GeoLibrary
• tax abatement development agreements — Partly checked
  • The 2025 Jay town meeting warrant that reportedly backed the data center plan was not located; only the current warrant page is published.
  • No Wiscasset option agreement, ARPA award document or Lincoln County commissioners' record was read.
  • The executed Eternal Mind lease, its commencement and expiration dates, amendments and current performance were not available.

  Selected records

  • Town of Jay – Public Hearing Notice for the November 3, 2026 Town Meeting Warrant · Town of Jay, Maine
  • Town of Wiscasset website · Town of Wiscasset, Maine
  • Loring Development Authority of Maine Board Meeting Minutes — June 21, 2023 · Loring Development Authority of Maine
• operator disclosures — Partly checked
  • LiquidCool Solutions', Green 4 Maine's and Sentinel Data Centers' own websites were not yet reviewed directly; no exact source retrieved here establishes their current roles.
  • No current Eternal Mind occupancy, operation, lease-performance or termination record was found.
  • Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle and Apple were not checked for Maine sites; none appears in any source opened here.
  • No colocation operator with a Maine presence was identified.

  Selected records

  • Loring Development Authority of Maine 2023 Annual Report · Loring Development Authority of Maine / Maine Legislature
  • Loring Development Authority of Maine 2024 Annual Report · Loring Development Authority of Maine / Maine Legislature
• open datasets directories — Checked
  • Directory listings (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, PeeringDB) were not consulted for Maine.
  • No cross-check was made against other trackers.

  Selected records

  • Compute Atlas facilities.json snapshot 71df145 – Maine extract (3 records) · Compute Atlas
• historical closures withdrawals names — Partly checked
  • No LD number, bill text, committee report or veto message was retrieved for the reported Maine data center moratorium.
  • The Jay cancellation is evidenced only by the licensed dataset; no town or company document confirming it was read.
  • No archived or historical sweep was made for older Maine data centers.

  Selected records

  • Maine Legislature bill search (LawMakerWeb / search_ps.asp) · Maine State Legislature
• news and other discovery — Not checked
  • The Bangor Daily News, Maine Monitor, Central Maine, Maine Morning Star, News Center Maine and Site Selection articles the licensed dataset cites were not retrieved.