AI Data Center near Mar-a-Lago
A large AI data center is planned near Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach County, with environmental advocates raising concerns about potential impacts to the Everglades. It is reported; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- Not disclosed
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | Not disclosed | |||
| How much water it would use | Not disclosed | |||
| How loud it would be | Not disclosed | |||
| Jobs once it runs | Not disclosed | |||
| Tax it would pay each year | Not disclosed |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Not disclosed | |||
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Who is behind itA land record, a zoning application or a company's own announcement.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What was decided
Acts of Palm Beach County and the cities in it about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach County | Palm Beach County passed a data center moratorium | commondreams.org | |
| Palm Beach County | Palm Beach County began pursuing moratorium after commissioners rejected Project Tango, a proposed 600 megawatt data center west of Loxahatchee. | sun-sentinel.com | |
| Palm Beach County | Palm Beach County commissioners unanimously approved one year moratorium on large scale data centers (50+ megawatt peak load); moratorium expires September 24, 2027 or when code updates are complete, whichever comes first. | sun-sentinel.com | |
| Palm Beach County | The county began pursuing a moratorium after commissioners rejected Project Tango, a proposed 600 megawatt data center west of Loxahatchee just north of Southern Boulevard near 20 Mile Bend | yahoo.com | |
| Palm Beach County | The county discussed the possibility of hiring a consultant, which could cost the county a couple hundred thousand dollars | yahoo.com | |
| Palm Beach County | County staff will revise the county's code to include rules and guidelines for what hyperscale artificial intelligence data centers should look like if built in the county, with possible requirements including increased landscape buffers and separations, sound studies, utility coordination and more | yahoo.com |
14 earlier decisions on the county's rows
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach County | The moratorium will expire either on Sept. 24, 2027, or once the county's code has been updated, whichever comes first | yahoo.com | |
| Palm Beach County | State law defines large load data centers as those with monthly peak load of at least 50 megawatts | yahoo.com | |
| Palm Beach County | Palm Beach County commissioners gave unanimous final approval for a yearlong moratorium that prohibits the county from accepting, processing or approving any large scale data center applications | yahoo.com | |
| Palm Beach County | Palm Beach County approved one year moratorium on large scale data centers last month | palmbeachpost.com | |
| Palm Beach County | Palm Beach County commission voted 5 to-1 against Project Tango data center in July | palmbeachpost.com | |
| Palm Beach County | Palm Beach County Commissioners rejected planned hyperscale data center campus in July by 5-1 vote. | floridapolitics.com | |
| Palm Beach County | Palm Beach County advanced a plan to temporarily ban data centers | sun-sentinel.com | |
| Palm Beach County | Project Tango moratorium vote scheduled for September 24 | therealdeal.com | |
| Palm Beach County | County will establish a task force to study potential impacts of data centers | therealdeal.com | |
| Palm Beach County | Palm Beach County moratorium defines large scale data centers as those with monthly peak load of 50 megawatts or more | therealdeal.com | |
| Palm Beach County | Palm Beach County commissioners voted unanimously to pursue a yearlong pause on large scale data center applications | therealdeal.com | |
| Palm Beach County | Commissioners will vote whether to implement the moratorium during a meeting September 24 | sun-sentinel.com | |
| Palm Beach County | Palm Beach County commissioners unanimously approved language for the proposed moratorium ordinance on a one year ban on large scale data centers | sun-sentinel.com | |
| Palm Beach County | Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners voted to reject Project Tango following months of organized opposition from local residents. | businessinsider.com |
What happened
No dated entry is on the record yet.
4 corrections to this record
Every correction, with its reason
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the summary of a projects row
The name restored: a hyphenated word in the record's own name is not a compound to split (DECISIONS section 12, amended 2026-09-18). The old and new text.
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· the summary of a projects row
Hyphenated compound split to meet the writing rule (DECISIONS section 12); the words are unchanged and the record name keeps the hyphens. The old and new text.
Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.
The site
Where in Palm Beach County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Proposed, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 15 other published records in Florida
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
- Where
- Palm Beach County, Florida
- How exactly it is located
- County level, the county seat
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at a county seat.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building AI Data Center near Mar-a-Lago?
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Not disclosed. No source on file names the developer. The sources read for this record are listed under Sources.
How much power and water does AI Data Center near Mar-a-Lago say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does AI Data Center near Mar-a-Lago stand today?
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It is reported; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. No dated entry is on the record yet.
What has Palm Beach County decided about it?
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Palm Beach County (rated restrictive): Palm Beach County passed a data center moratorium (reported September 28, 2026, source); and Palm Beach County: Palm Beach County began pursuing moratorium after commissioners rejected Project Tango, a proposed 600 megawatt data center west of Loxahatchee. (reported September 24, 2026, source). 20 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Reporting
- A huge AI datacenter is planned near Mar-a-Lago. The Everglades could pay the price - The Guardian, The Guardian, August 12, 2026, trade press
- Project Tango just got buried in Palm Beach County. Commissioners voted 5-1 Wednesday night to kill PBA Holdings’ hyperscale AI data center plan in Loxahatchee, 20 miles from Mar-a-Lago and 800 feet from homes, 1500 feet from Saddle View Elementary., www.facebook.com, September 3, 2026, local outlet
- Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Put a data center up in Mar-a-Lago’ - The Hill, The Hill, September 1, 2026, local outlet
3 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "AI Data Center near Mar-a-Lago", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/ai-data-center-near-mar-a-lago-palm-beach-fl, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "AI Data Center near Mar-a-Lago", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/ai-data-center-near-mar-a-lago-palm-beach-fl. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- ai-data-center-near-mar-a-lago-palm-beach-fl
- Status value
- rumored
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/fl/palm-beach-county
- Coordinates
- 26.70972, -80.06417
- Location precision
- county
- Location source
- County seat (West Palm Beach), Wikidata, placed at county level
- Coordinate source
- wikidata county seat
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- September 16, 2026
- EPA registry id
- Not disclosed
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- not_disclosed
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Restrictive
- Published
- 2026-09-05
- Last verified
- 2026-09-17