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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Starwood Digital Ventures
- Address and locality
- Delaware City · New Castle County · Delaware
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,200 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 6 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001368
What the source record says
Largest proposed data center in Delaware history. 11 two-story buildings, 5 substations, 1 switch station, 516 emergency diesel generators on 580 acres. CZA permit denied February 4, 2026; denial unanimously upheld by Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board March 26, 2026. Appeal to Delaware Superior Court anticipated. Delaware Building Trades Council exclusive union labor agreement in place. Original $9.7B investment figure removed — not confirmed in any cited source. Coordinates approximate for Delaware City area.
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
- 2025-07 · reported proposed
Starwood Digital proposed 11-building, 1.2 GW hyperscale campus on 580 acres adjacent to former Delaware City Refinery land (Hamburg Road/River Road/Governor Lea Road).
Sources and attribution
- Delaware City data center faces major setback after environmental denial · Spotlight Delaware
- Starwood Digital Ventures makes its case to overturn Coastal Zone ruling against its data center plan · Delaware Public Media
- DNREC Coastal Zone Status Decision — Starwood Digital Ventures (CZA-448SD) · Delaware DNREC
- Delaware City data center environmental denial upheld by state board · Spotlight Delaware
- Starwood files to develop 1.2GW, 11-building data center campus in Delaware · DataCenterDynamics
- Proposed Delaware City data center could use between 10 to 20 million gallons of water a year · WHYY
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID starwood-digital-project-washington-de. 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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