Sanford Woods Data Center
New England Energy · Sanford, ME · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 43.4387179, -70.7746224
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- 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
No dated operational history is established in this record. Publication, discovery and source-update dates are not opening dates.
Source notes
Reported capacity range is 100-300 MW (not a firm committed figure; not recorded as capacity pending a formal filing). Proposed as one component of the 1,060-acre 'Sanford Woods Industrial and Technical Campus' in south Sanford, bisected by the Mousam River, on land owned since 1975 by the Gibbs family's New England Energy (Randy Gibbs, founder of Multifuels of Houston, TX; co-developer Walt Bussells). Co-located with a planned 300 MW hydrogen fuel-cell power plant (as of October 2026, tracked separately as Sanford Woods Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power Plant), a 50-acre industrial greenhouse, and a cold-storage facility. Cumulative campus investment reported at ~$2.16 billion (a tally by Sanford City Manager Steve Buck, as reported by the Sanford Springvale News) with ~100 long-term jobs for the project as a whole (State Sen. Matthew Harrington's figure, as reported by the same paper) -- both figures span the whole campus, not the data center alone, so they are not recorded as this facility's investment or jobs. No land area is recorded, because the 1,060-acre parcel is the whole campus, not the data center's footprint alone. Disclosed to the Maine Legislature's Energy and Utilities Committee in February 2026; marketing, partner selection, financing and permitting expected to take ~2 years. Maine's 2026 data-center moratorium debate would allow continued groundwork but block new construction permits before 2028.
Planned to be powered off-grid by on-site generation: a hydrogen fuel-cell plant (initially natural gas, transitioning to hydrogen within ~5 years) plus solar.
Sources and provenance
- Company eyes Sanford site for data center · source retrieved 2026-10-04
- Data center could pump $2 billion into city · source retrieved 2026-10-04
- Sanford isn't just getting a data center, developer says · source retrieved 2026-10-22
- Sanford extends data center moratorium for 180 days · source retrieved 2026-10-22
- Sanford imposes emergency data center moratorium, halting Mousam River project · source retrieved 2026-10-22
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.