Chestnut River Holyoke Data Center (former Hampden Papers complex)
Chestnut River Power and Infrastructure · Holyoke, MA · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- 100 Water Street
- Coordinates
- 42.1975752, -72.600908
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 20 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-21
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Proposed
Boston-based Chestnut River Power and Infrastructure publicly sought the former Hampden Papers complex at 100 Water Street for a 20-megawatt "micro facility"; WAMC reports no permits filed and no property purchased at that point.
Underlying source
Source notes
Status is "proposed", not "cancelled": Holyoke's City Council voted 9-4 on 2026-06-17 to ban AI data centers above 12 MW, which would bar this 20 MW project as designed, but the developer stated "We're not closing the door - and we hope Holyoke won't either" and had neither filed permits nor bought the property. The coordinate is the OSM-mapped former Hampden Paper Co building at the cited address, marked approximate because the proposal covers the wider complex. The 20 MW is the developer's stated figure; $200M is the reported project cost for this site only. Holyoke's ban explicitly exempts the tracked MGHPCC.
Sources and provenance
- WAMC, 2026-06-16 - Holyoke councilors mull data center ban as developer seeks former complex; "20-megawatt 'micro facility'", $200 million, 100 Water Street · source retrieved 2026-09-21
- Daily Hampshire Gazette, 2026-06-17 - Holyoke first in state to ban development of AI data centers; developer Chestnut River, 20 MW, $200M, adaptive reuse of the former mill · source retrieved 2026-09-15
- OpenStreetMap/Nominatim - "Former Hampden Paper Co, 100, Water Street, The Flats, Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts, 01040" (OSM way 213616074) · source retrieved 2026-09-15
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.