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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Markley Group
- Address and locality
- Lowell · Middlesex County · Massachusetts
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 6 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000912
What the source record says
Coordinates are approximate city centroid (Sacred Heart/Back Central neighborhoods, Lowell). Facility serves 100+ customers including hospitals, universities, and police departments. Expansion includes land purchases by Markley near old power plant. Expansion plans stalled by moratorium. AI demand cited as driver of expansion since 2022. Delivered permanent-job counts are disputed - the abatement promised 100 jobs; the city and critics count ~26-30 full-time local workers while Markley cites ~100 total, with construction peaking ~120 (IBEW Local 103); recorded as unresolved (honest-zero). No confirmed total capital-investment figure is public ('hundreds of millions'). Massachusetts' 2024 sales-tax exemption is statutory eligibility, not a confirmed Markley award.
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
- 2016-01 · reported operational
Markley Group One Lowell data center opens on site of former Prince Spaghetti factory; 352,000 sq ft, largest data center in Massachusetts
- 2025-07 · reported operational
Massachusetts DEP approves air permit for 8 additional diesel generators (27 total); residents appeal permit
- 2026-04 · reported operational
Lowell City Council passes one-year moratorium on data center construction and expansion; residents file first Massachusetts data center lawsuit
Sources and attribution
- Lowell Residents File Massachusetts' First Lawsuit Against a Data Center · Boston.com
- Lessons From Lowell: How a Data Center's Expansion Has Choked a Small Town · The Harvard Crimson
- Take a rare look inside the largest data center in Massachusetts · CBS Boston
- The Dungeon Over Lowell: How the Data Center Boom Divided One City's Working People · Working Mass
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID markley-lowell-ma. 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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