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Data centers in New Castle County, Delaware

New Castle County has 1 data center on the record; it is proposed. New Castle County has a scorecard row with no rating yet. The latest decision on the record: Commissioners debated whether complaint triggered acoustical testing should be mandatory versus discretionary, September 16, 2026.

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The data center in New Castle County

Each row is one site with its stage, its latest dated entry and what its sources disclose. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed.

  1. Reported Built from one source

    Delaware City Data Center

    Delaware City, New Castle County

    No dated entry on the record yet.

    Land
    Not disclosed
    Power
    1.2 GWthird party estimate
    Water
    Not disclosed
    Tenant
    Not disclosed

Where

1 data center in New Castle County: proposed. A dashed edge means the exact site is not in the public record; every pin here marks a town or the county.

The outline is New Castle County's boundary from the U.S. Census Bureau. Tap a pin for that data center's facts and a link to its page.

The cities in New Castle County on the record (1)

1 of 1 city has a record. A city without one is listed, not linked, until its first published record. No city in New Castle County has a rule, a statement by an official or a rating on the record yet.

CityProjects
Delaware City1

What New Castle County has decided

1 body, 3 decisions on the record

What the county and the cities in it have done about data centers: each body on its own row with its rating, open, case by case, restrictive or closed, never good or bad, and every vote, ordinance, moratorium or agreement behind its toggle, newest first, with its source.

Reported: the source's date; the item names no day of its own.

  1. New Castle Countycounty

    Commissioners debated whether complaint triggered acoustical testing should be mandatory versus discretionary, reported September 16, 2026.

    citizenportal.ai local outlet

    no published rating
    3 acts on this row
    1. hearing

      Commissioners debated whether complaint triggered acoustical testing should be mandatory versus discretionary.

      citizenportal.ai local outlet

    2. ordinance

      Planning Commission reviewed draft ordinance 568 for data center standards including noise, buffers, and enforcement.

      citizenportal.ai local outlet

    3. event

      New Castle County put similar requirements in place after months of public conflict over a controversial project near Delaware City

      yahoo.com national outlet

    Last verified September 16, 2026.

The rules across Delaware.

What happened

  1. · New Castle County

    Hearing: Commissioners debated whether complaint triggered acoustical testing should be mandatory versus discretionary. citizenportal.ai local outlet

  2. · New Castle County

    Ordinance: Planning Commission reviewed draft ordinance 568 for data center standards including noise, buffers, and enforcement. citizenportal.ai local outlet

  3. · New Castle County

    Scorecard event: New Castle County put similar requirements in place after months of public conflict over a controversial project near Delaware City yahoo.com national outlet

Delaware, year by year · Every milestone, by month

What was said

Paul Waddell, Dover electric director, said the city needs better understanding of how data centers might affect the electric grid and utility systems
Paul Waddell, Dover electric director · August 20, 2026 · paraphrased · Yahoo national outlet

Every Delaware statement, by speaker

Disclosed figures

1.2 GW power

Power, water, jobs and tax, summed only where a data center disclosed the figure; what each facility is for; how each is cooled. Nothing here is estimated.

Power, water, jobs and tax

FigureDisclosed totalDisclosedNot disclosedBasis
Power1.2 GW101 third party estimate
Water, stated per dayNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Water, stated per yearNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Permanent jobsNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Tax each yearNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record

Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.

By what the facilities are for

UseRecordsPowerWaterJobsTax each year
Not disclosed11.2 GWNot disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosed: water, jobs, tax each year

A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.

What the facilities are for

No source on file states what any of the 1 tracked facility in New Castle County is for.

How the facilities are cooled

No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in New Castle County is cooled.

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Data Center Record, "Data centers in New Castle County, Delaware", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/de/new-castle-county, updated September 25, 2026.

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