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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- The Data Centers, LLC
- Address and locality
- Newark · New Castle County · Delaware
- Lifecycle status
- reported cancelled
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 12 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001448
What the source record says
Proposed circa 2013 by The Data Centers, LLC (TDC): up to 900,000 sq ft of data center space plus the 279 MW cogeneration plant noted above, on the University of Delaware's 271-acre STAR Campus (former Chrysler Newark Assembly Plant site). Sources disagree on the headline investment figure — Data Center Knowledge reported 'approximately $1 billion' while Technical.ly reported 'more than $1.8 billion' for the combined data-center-and-power-plant project; both are recorded here rather than resolving to one number, so investmentUsd is left unset. Coordinates are the 'STAR Campus' OSM way centroid (approximate) — the specific parcel within the 271-acre campus where this project would have sited was not stated in any source reviewed, and the project was never built.
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
- 2014-07 · reported cancelled
University of Delaware terminated its lease agreement with The Data Centers, LLC (TDC) on 2014-07-10.
Sources and attribution
- UD terminates Data Centers project for STAR Campus · University of Delaware (UDaily)
- University of Delaware Puts Nail in Coffin of Data Center and Power Plant Project · Data Center Knowledge
- UD's STAR Campus passed on $1.8B data center project: what to know · Technical.ly
- STAR Campus (OpenStreetMap way) · OpenStreetMap contributors
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID the-data-centers-star-campus-newark-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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