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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Cielo Digital Infrastructure
- Address and locality
- Marion Road at State Road 544-East · Haines City · Polk County · Florida
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 300 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 14 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000238
What the source record says
300 MW planned, ~74-acre site along Marion Road and State Road 544 East, Haines City, Polk County -- pre-application stage (no site plan, zoning request, or development agreement filed as of Aug 2026), distinct from the already-tracked Lakeland (Ryan Companies/Project Swan) and Fort Meade (Stonebridge/Florida Ecopark) Polk County sites. No precise parcel address, investment figure, or jobs figure disclosed in any source found; coordinates are the Haines City area centroid, not the actual site. The Data Center Dynamics original report (sources[2]) returned a 403 on direct re-fetch this session -- corroborated via Yahoo Finance syndication and independent Citrus Tea investigative reporting citing city commission records; multiple other independent local outlets (WFLA, Fox 13 Tampa Bay, Bay News 9) covered the same story at headline level.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-11 · reported proposed
Cielo Digital Infrastructure held an initial meeting with Haines City on Nov 4, 2025; the Deputy City Manager signed a non-binding concurrence letter on Nov 17, 2025 -- roughly seven months before the project became public.
- 2026-07 · reported proposed
Project publicly disclosed via local news coverage of city commission records. No formal site plan, zoning request, or development agreement filed. Blocked pending Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) approval of a Water Use Permit modification; city officials say full approval is unlikely before end of 2026.
Sources and attribution
- Florida data center project stalls amid water permit fight · Yahoo Finance (syndicating Data Center Dynamics)
- Haines City data center: new documents show what commissioners were told before the public, and when · The Citrus Tea
- Planned data center in Florida held back by lack of available water from city · Data Center Dynamics
- Haines City data center project stalled by water capacity shortage
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID cielo-haines-city-fl. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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