STAR Campus Data Center & Cogeneration Plant (The Data Centers, LLC)

Facility record

Lifecycle

CancelledSource-reported lifecycle

Location precision

approximate

Address as listed

Not published

Coordinates

39.6655592, -75.7541725

Serving utility, source-reported

Not established

Operational capacity, source-reported

Not published

Planned capacity, source-reported

Not published

Source record updated

2026-10-01

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. 2014-07Cancelled

   University of Delaware terminated its lease agreement with The Data Centers, LLC (TDC) on 2014-07-10.

   Underlying source

Source notes

Proposed circa 2013 by The Data Centers, LLC (TDC): up to 900,000 sq ft of data center space plus a 279 MW natural-gas cogeneration plant, on the University of Delaware's 271-acre STAR Campus (former Chrysler Newark Assembly Plant site). Sources disagree on the headline investment figure — Data Center Knowledge reported 'approximately $1 billion' while Technical.ly reported 'more than $1.8 billion' for the combined data-center-and-power-plant project; both are recorded here rather than resolving to one number, so the investment figure is left unset. Coordinates are the 'STAR Campus' OSM way centroid (approximate) — the specific parcel within the 271-acre campus where this project would have sited was not stated in any source reviewed, and the project was never built.

Proposed 279 MW natural-gas cogeneration (CHP) plant to power the data center on-site. UD's review found this would have been at least twice the size of any other known on-site generation facility at a US data center. Never built.

Sources and provenance

• UD terminates Data Centers project for STAR Campus · source retrieved 2026-09-12
• University of Delaware Puts Nail in Coffin of Data Center and Power Plant Project · source retrieved 2026-09-12
• UD's STAR Campus passed on $1.8B data center project: what to know · source retrieved 2026-09-12
• STAR Campus (OpenStreetMap way) · source retrieved 2026-09-12
• More details offered on proposed data center-power plant project (900,000 sq ft; 'The site would employ 290') · source retrieved 2026-10-01

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