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Data centers in Polk County, Florida

Polk County has 1 data center on the record; it is running. No county rule about data centers is on the record for Polk County itself; 1 body inside it has a scorecard row. The latest decision on the record: Fort Meade data center project was approved by city commission in April (Fort Meade), September 22, 2026.

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How to read this page. Every count comes from the records on this page and links to where it is counted. Nothing is published until a person reads its source, and a figure no source gives reads Not disclosed; nothing is estimated. A rating changes only when a person sets it.

The data center in Polk 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. Running Built from one source

    Cologix LAK1

    Lakeland, Polk County · Cologix

    No dated entry on the record yet.

    Land
    Not disclosed
    Power
    Not disclosed
    Water
    Not disclosed
    Tenant
    Not disclosed

Where

1 data center in Polk County: running. 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 Polk 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 Polk County on the record (2)

2 of 2 cities have a record. A city without one is listed, not linked, until its first published record.

CityProjectsRules
Lakeland10
Fort Meade01

What Polk County has decided

1 body, 1 decision 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.

A month with no day: the source names the month and not the day.

  1. Fort Meadecity

    Fort Meade data center project was approved by city commission in April, April 2026.

    tampabay28.com local outlet

    no published rating
    1 act on this row
    1. approval

      Fort Meade data center project was approved by city commission in April

      tampabay28.com local outlet

    Last verified September 22, 2026.

The rules across Florida.

What happened

  1. · Fort Meade

    Approval: Fort Meade data center project was approved by city commission in April tampabay28.com local outlet

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Nearby counties with records

42 miles away Hillsborough County 2 data centers on the record 45 miles away Orange County 1 data center on the record 86 miles away St. Lucie County 1 data center on the record 99 miles away Martin County 1 data center on the record

Every Florida county.

Disclosed figures

nothing disclosed by 1 record

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
PowerNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
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 disclosed1Not disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosed: power, 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 Polk County is for.

How the facilities are cooled

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

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Data Center Record, "Data centers in Polk County, Florida", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/fl/polk-county, updated September 22, 2026.

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