Sites / ME / York
Sanford Data Center
Status: announced · Confidence: medium
Facts
| Location | Sanford, York, ME |
|---|---|
| First recorded | 2026-07-07 |
| Last updated | 2026-07-07 |
Signal notes
Proposed data center in Sanford, York County, ME (~35 miles southwest of Portland). In planning, not yet permitted — kept as `announced`, not `cancelled`: the two-year moratorium on facilities exceeding 20 MW that jeopardizes it is only *proposed*, not enacted, so the project is not yet dead. Reported proposed capacity is a 100-300 MW range powered by fuel cells, solar, and battery storage; capacity_mw omitted because a single numeric value would misrepresent a stated range (range recorded here). Single source (DataCenterDynamics) hence medium confidence. Developer "Northern New England Energy Company" needs an operators.yml entry; developer field omitted until an id exists.
Sources
- Planned data center in Maine under threat from proposed moratorium — DataCenterDynamics, 2026-07-06
Developer, location, proposed capacity/power mix, and moratorium threat.
Signals
Raw observations behind this record (4):
sig-20260706-sanford-capacity,
sig-20260706-sanford-developer,
sig-20260706-sanford-location,
sig-20260706-sanford-status
Record file · dataset licensed CC BY 4.0 — see provenance.