Data centers in Hampden County, Massachusetts
Hampden County has 1 data center on the record; it is proposed. No county rule about data centers is on the record for Hampden County itself; 1 body inside it has a scorecard row, and a pause on new data centers is on the record. The latest decision on the record: City councilors in Westfield voted earlier this year to enact a one year moratorium on additional data centers (Westfield), September 8, 2026.
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The data center in Hampden 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.
Holyoke Paper Mill Data Center
Holyoke, Hampden County
Latest, reported September 11, 2026: Facility received highest rating for energy efficiency from U.S. Green Building Council in 2013 wbur.org local outlet
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Tenant
- Not disclosed
Where
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1 data center in Hampden County: proposed. A dashed edge means the exact site is not in the public record; every pin here marks a town or the county.
What Hampden County has decided
1 body, 1 decision on the recordWhat 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.
- Westfieldcity
City councilors in Westfield voted earlier this year to enact a one year moratorium on additional data centers, in 2026.
1 act on this row
- moratorium adopted
City councilors in Westfield voted earlier this year to enact a one year moratorium on additional data centers
- moratorium adopted
What happened
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· Holyoke Paper Mill Data Center
Now reported: Facility received highest rating for energy efficiency from U.S. Green Building Council in 2013 wbur.org local outlet
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· Westfield
Moratorium adopted: City councilors in Westfield voted earlier this year to enact a one year moratorium on additional data centers bostonglobe.com local outlet
What was said
Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center operates on carbon free power
Disclosed figures
nothing disclosed by 1 record
Power, water, jobs and tax
| Figure | Disclosed total | Disclosed | Not disclosed | Basis | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Water, stated per day | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Water, stated per year | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Permanent jobs | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Tax each year | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not 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
| Use | Records | Power | Water | Jobs | Tax each year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not disclosed | 1 | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not 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 Hampden County is for.
How the facilities are cooled
No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in Hampden County is cooled.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data centers in Hampden County, Massachusetts", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/ma/hampden-county, updated September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data center records in Hampden County, Massachusetts", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/ma/hampden-county. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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The rows here are part of the Massachusetts export.
For researchers
- Place id
- us/ma/hampden-county
- Level
- county
- Census GEOID
- Not disclosed
- Rating value
- Not disclosed
- Scale word
- Not disclosed