Data centers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Fort Lauderdale has 1 data center on the record; it is running. No city rule about data centers is on the record for Fort Lauderdale yet. Broward County's own decisions are on the Broward County page.
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The data center in Fort Lauderdale
Every Fort Lauderdale record 1 record · blank cell: not disclosed · sort by any column
| Facility and county | Stage | Operator | Power (MW) | Latest entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flexential Fort Lauderdale Data Center Campus (FLL01 and FLL02) Fort Lauderdale, Broward County | Running | Flexential | 12 |
A blank cell means not disclosed by any source on file. Power is the developer's figure or a permit's, each linked on the record.
| Record | Place | Stage | Operator | MW | Basis | Located | Tier | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flexential Fort Lauderdale Data Center Campus (FLL01 and FLL02) | Fort Lauderdale, Broward | Running | Flexential | 12 | the developer's figure | site | 1 | 2026-10-27 |
Tier 1: an official or company source. Tier 2: a news report resolving to the outlet's own page. Located: a site coordinate from a permit, a parcel or an address, or the county or town centroid. Verified: the last day a person read the source. A blank cell means not disclosed by any source on file.
What Fort Lauderdale has decided
June 15, 2026 Fort Lauderdale, FL Project Tango fuels debate over Florida’s first hyperscale AI data center
In Fort Lauderdale, Broward County (FL), Fort Lauderdale City Council and local residents debated municipal data center siting, utility infrastructure load, water consumption, and zoning rules during the June 15, 2026 session.
- Fort Lauderdale City Council Officials and Speakers Elected Official auto captions, unchecked
">> We have a choice, use your voice. >> As data centers rise, >> No data centers. >> so does the backlash. >> NO DATA CENTERS, NOT TODAY. >> BIPARTISAN protests all over the country and now the fight has come to Florida. >> You'd have to be living under a rock to not realize how horrible these centers are. >> Project Tango, a proposed hyperscale data center, the first in the state, in western Palm Beach County."
- Resident public comment Resident Public Comment auto captions, unchecked
">> The site chosen because it's just a few hundred feet away from a major power plant. >> And so you have one of the most connected pieces of electrical infrastructure in Florida [music] with the largest power plant in the state of Florida immediately next to a site that's been zoned and used for industrial uses for decades. >> But it's the location also generating fierce opposition. Project Tango [music]"
- Fort Lauderdale City Council Member Elected Official auto captions, unchecked
"and an elementary school, both just outside of Wellington. Project Tango's original master plan was approved 10 years ago, but now developers are seeking permission to expand that plan by 1.5 million square feet, mostly they say for warehouses but could also be used for [music] more data center space. >> Dozens of data centers already exist in Miami Dade County like this one, Iron Mountain, set to open later this year,"
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The county and nearby counties
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Disclosed figures
12 MW power
Power, water, jobs and tax
| Figure | Disclosed total | Disclosed | Without a figure | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | 12 MW | 1 | 0 | 1 the developer's figure |
| Water, stated per day | 0 | 1 | ||
| Water, stated per year | 0 | 1 | ||
| Permanent jobs | 0 | 1 | ||
| Tax each year | 0 | 1 |
A blank total means no record disclosed the figure; the count without one says how many.
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
| Use | Records | Power | Water | Jobs | Tax each year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No stated use | 1 | 12 MW |
A blank cell means no record with that use disclosed the figure.
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 Fort Lauderdale is for.
How the facilities are cooled
No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in Fort Lauderdale is cooled.
About this data
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Data Center Record, "Data center records in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/fl/broward-county/fort-lauderdale. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY-NC 4.0.
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For researchers
- Level
- city
- Census GEOID
- 1224000
- Census geography
- Incorporated place, Fort Lauderdale city
- Rating
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