Proposed St. Albans, VT Data Center (Unbuilt)

Facility record

Lifecycle

CancelledSource-reported lifecycle

Location precision

approximate

Address as listed

Not published

Coordinates

44.8107911, -73.0833607

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

1. 2025Proposed

   First known attempt to bring a large-scale data center to Vermont. Two capacity scenarios were discussed: 8-12MW or 50MW; the larger option was projected at approximately 1,000 temporary construction jobs and 20 permanent jobs.

   Underlying source
2. 2026-02Cancelled

   "It was going to cost just too much money to build a substation that would have allowed the project to move forward" -- Sean Adkins, then St. Albans town manager, on why the developer withdrew: connecting to the grid would have required a new substation costing roughly $30 million.

   Underlying source

Source notes

As of September 2026, no developer name, specific parcel, or exact site address was named in any source found, so the location is a St. Albans city-boundary centroid (OSM relation 199108, 'Saint Albans City, Franklin County, Vermont'), not a parcel-level pin; no street address exists to pair it with. Capacity and jobs appear only in the status history notes, not as structured single-value fields, because the two capacity scenarios (8-12MW vs 50MW) were alternatives under discussion, not a single settled plan, and the job estimates applied only to the larger, never-selected option. Sean Adkins subsequently became executive director of the Rutland Development Authority and has expressed continued interest in attracting a similar project to Rutland -- not independently verified as an active proposal as of September 2026.

Sources and provenance

• Vermont plugs into the data center conversation · source retrieved 2026-09-12
• Vermont's Data Center Bill Is Dead. Developers Weren't Lining Up to Build One Here Anyway · source retrieved 2026-10-28

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