id: firstlight-bedford
name: FirstLight Bedford data center expansion
status: announced
location:
  country: US
  state: NH
  county: Hillsborough
  locality: Bedford
first_seen: "2026-07-06"
last_updated: "2026-07-06"
confidence: medium
sources:
  - url: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/firstlight-expands-new-hampshire-data-center/
    title: FirstLight expands New Hampshire data center
    publisher: DataCenterDynamics
    date: "2026-07-06"
    note: expansion announcement; space given as a relative percentage
signals:
  - sig-20260706-firstlight-bedford-sqft
  - sig-20260706-firstlight-bedford-status
notes: >-
  Operator FirstLight has no operators.yml entry — needs one added before the
  operator field can be populated. Building floor area is only reported
  relatively ("adding ~25% more data-center space plus power/cooling for up to
  100 additional racks"); no absolute sqft is sourced, so building_sqft is left
  blank rather than invented (KB-0002). Single-source (DataCenterDynamics), so
  aggregate confidence is medium.