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Amazon Data Services Grafton

Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts · All 8 Amazon Data Services sites · Every Amazon case on our tracker

ProposedNo reception on recordRecord updated October 24, 2026

Amazon Data Services Grafton is a proposed data center in Grafton, Massachusetts (Worcester County), operated by Amazon Data Services. The public record puts it at announced November 2022, 1.8 acres, a reported $15 million investment.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator: Amazon Data Services
Facility type: Data center
Location: 8 Centennial Drive, Grafton, Worcester County, MA
Coordinates: 42.2501, -71.6877 (approximate)
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: 1.8 acres
Investment: $15 million
Announced: November 2022
Utility: Not established from a public source
Cooling: Not established from a public source
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: Not established from a public source
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: No reception on record
Source confidence: Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of October 24, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Amazon Data Services Grafton in Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

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Notes on the record

Amazon Data Services Inc. purchased a 155,000 sq ft building on a 1.8-acre lot on Centennial Drive in Grafton (within CenTech Park, a technology park spanning Grafton and Shrewsbury) for $15.1M, per a November 24, 2022 report. Cleanview's tracker still lists status as "Planned" as of 2026-09-12; no independent confirmation of construction start or energization was found, so status is recorded as proposed. The Worcester Business Journal's November 22, 2022 report gives the street number: the building is at 8 Centennial Drive. The recorded investment figure reflects the disclosed real-estate acquisition price, not a separately-disclosed build-out cost. Coordinates were set on 2026-09-12 to the OSM way centroid for Centennial Drive, North Grafton (without a house number, the US Census address geocoder returned no match); the pin is street-level, not parcel-level.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

Power capacity in megawatts
Cooling method and water use
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Permanent jobs promised
How the community has received it
Which utility serves it

Which document closes each gap

Power capacity in megawatts: The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
Cooling method and water use: The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
Tax abatements or other public subsidy: The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Permanent jobs promised: The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
How the community has received it: Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
Which utility serves it: The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Amazon Data Services Westborough · Westborough · Amazon Data Services6 mi · Proposed
Iron Mountain Boston Data Center (BOS-1) · Northborough · Iron Mountain7 mi · Operating · 3.6 MW
TierPoint Boston Data Center (Marlborough) · Marlborough · TierPoint7 mi · Operating
365 Data Centers Marlborough (MA1) · Marlborough · 365 Data Centers9 mi · Operating · 2.8 MW
Mass General Brigham Enterprise Data Center (Marlborough) · Marlborough · Mass General Brigham10 mi · Operating · 5.2 MW
Equinix BO1 · Waltham · Equinix24 mi · Operating
Csquare BOS1 (Waltham) · Waltham · Csquare (formerly Centersquare)24 mi · Operating
Digital Realty BOS14 · Needham · Digital Realty24 mi · Operating

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Amazon Data Services Grafton data center in Grafton?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Amazon Data Services Grafton data center?

No lawsuit over Amazon Data Services Grafton appears in the record we track as of October 24, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does Amazon Data Services Grafton use?

No water withdrawal figure for Amazon Data Services Grafton is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Amazon Data Services Grafton, and how big is it?

Amazon Data Services is the operator on record. We hold 8 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 1.8 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Amazon Data Services Grafton," updated October 24, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/aws-grafton-ma.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/aws-grafton-ma, retrieved October 29, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

1.Amazon Buys Two Data Centers in Massachusetts For $26.7m · Baxtel · retrieved October 6, 2026
2.AWS Grafton Data Center · Cleanview · retrieved September 12, 2026
3.Worcester Business Journal, 2022-11-22 - "In Grafton, Amazon bought a 155,000-square-foot flex building on a 1.8-acre lot at 8 Centennial Drive for $15.1 million" · Worcester Business Journal · retrieved September 15, 2026
4.Amazon pays $26.7 million for properties in Grafton, Shrewsbury and Westborough (Telegram & Gazette via Yahoo) · Telegram & Gazette · retrieved October 24, 2026

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