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Middletown Technology Center (Cirrus Delaware LLC)

Cirrus Delaware, LLC · Middletown, DE · United States

Facility record

Lifecycle
ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
Location precision
approximate
Address as listed
Not published
Coordinates
39.4497639, -75.7166345
Serving utility, source-reported
Not established
Operational capacity, source-reported
Not published
Planned capacity, source-reported
40 MW
Source record updated
2026-10-28

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

  1. Proposed

    Middletown Town Council approved plans for the Middletown Technology Center: a 228,000 sq ft, 40 MW data center with a natural-gas cogeneration plant on 70 acres in the town's Westown area. DBT reports the approval came in August 2015. Data Center Knowledge's report is dated Aug 5, 2015.

    Underlying source
  2. Proposed

    Delaware Infrastructure Investment Committee voted 4-0 to approve up to $7.5M in New Jobs Infrastructure Fund money for the project's utility infrastructure. The approval was conditioned on a DNREC air permit, financing disclosure, identification of the operator, and payment on a reimbursement basis.

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  3. Proposed

    Per the dcmap.us activity log, Cirrus put its Middletown air-permit application on hold. No later activity was found.

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Source notes

Never built, and apparently dormant since the air-permit application was put on hold in October 2017. The record stays listed as proposed because, as of October 2026, no source records a formal withdrawal or cancellation. Treat the status as stalled, not active. The state grant was approved at up to $7.5M (the committee minutes record the request as "up to $7,500,000") and was conditional and reimbursement-only, so no grant amount is recorded. As of October 2026, no evidence was found that it was disbursed, so the record lists it as the IIC's May 2016 approval, not as money paid. Sources disagree on cost: $250M (DCK 2015), about $400M (DBT 2015) and $350M (applicant, IIC 2016). The recorded investment figure is the applicant's $350M estimate, which the AP also reported in May 2016. Jobs figures are the applicant's 2016 IIC projections. DBT 2015 cited 'more than 100' full-time and up to 2,000 construction jobs. Partners named at the IIC meeting were Duffield Associates (now Verdantas), MEP Associates and landowner Mautom, LLC. The end operator was never disclosed. The pin is Middletown's OSM boundary centroid, because the 70-acre Westown parcel did not resolve to a point.

Per the applicant at the May 2016 IIC meeting, the facility would 'mostly pull power from the PJM grid from Middletown' over 138 kV lines from an adjacent substation. An on-site natural-gas cogeneration plant would supply redundancy and peak-period power within air-permit hour limits. DBT and Data Center Knowledge (2015) give the gas plant as 52.5 MW. At the 2016 IIC meeting the applicant described the data center as 40 MW, with 36 MW of white space at a design PUE of 1.4, for a 50 MW total requirement at full build.

Sources and provenance

Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.

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