Cielo Haines City Data Center
Cielo Digital Infrastructure · Haines City, FL · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Marion Road at State Road 544-East
- Coordinates
- 28.1114, -81.6198
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 300 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-20
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
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.
Underlying source - 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.
Underlying source
Source notes
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 Lakeland (Ryan Companies/Project Swan) and Fort Meade (Stonebridge/Florida Ecopark) Polk County sites, both tracked as of August 2026. As of August 2026, no precise parcel address, investment figure, or jobs figure was disclosed in any source found; coordinates are the Haines City area centroid, not the actual site. The Data Center Dynamics original report could not be retrieved directly as of August 2026; the story is 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.
Sources and provenance
- Florida data center project stalls amid water permit fight · source retrieved 2026-09-14
- Haines City data center: new documents show what commissioners were told before the public, and when · source retrieved 2026-08-02
- Planned data center in Florida held back by lack of available water from city · source retrieved 2026-08-02
- Haines City data center project stalled by water capacity shortage · source retrieved 2026-09-10
- Haines City water limits puts data center plan on hold · source retrieved 2026-10-20
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.