Project Swan
Ryan Companies (end operator TBD) · Lakeland, FL · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- CancelledSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- 923 Wilkinson Road
- Coordinates
- 28.0305, -82.0054
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Lakeland Electric
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 100 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-30
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
600,000 sq ft / 3-building proposal at Old Tampa Hwy & Wilkinson Rd; zoning may prohibit and site needs annexation.
Underlying source - Cancelled
Conflicting reporting. A 2026-06-03 city clarification (WUSF/LkldNow 'Still Active') said the applicant only withdrew from a June 3 Development Review Team meeting, not the application itself, after it was mistakenly marked withdrawn in the city's iMS system. But this 2026-09-01 piece states flatly the application 'had already been withdrawn in June' and that no data-center applications were pending when Lakeland passed its 1-year, 50MW-threshold moratorium on 2026-08-03. Recorded as cancelled on the more recent, more specific source.
Underlying source
Source notes
600,000 sq ft across 3 buildings on 60.5 acres (4 parcels, near 923 Wilkinson Rd). Zoning may prohibit the project — data centers are not in Lakeland's Land Development Code — and part of the site is unincorporated Polk County, requiring annexation.
Bay News 9 (2026-07-06) reported that Project Swan would need about 100 MW, contingent on Lakeland Electric being able to supply it. The mayor said the utility's largest current customer is 18 MW.
Sources and provenance
- Hyperscale data center proposed for Lakeland · source retrieved 2026-09-10
- Project Swan: what is the proposed Lakeland data center? · source retrieved 2026-07-17
- Polk County parcel/GIS record (parcel 232822091000000300) · source retrieved 2026-07-18
- Lakeland residents question environmental impact of proposed 'Project Swan' data center · source retrieved 2026-08-19
- After backlash over Project Swan, some call for data center moratorium in Lakeland · source retrieved 2026-08-19
- Coalition Rallies Against Lakeland Data Center Proposal · source retrieved 2026-08-19
- Lakeland, Florida just paused a 600,000-square-foot, 100-megawatt data center on a 4-3 commission vote · source retrieved 2026-09-10
- Data center developer addresses public as Lakeland considers moratorium · source retrieved 2026-10-02
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.