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Middletown Technology Center (Cirrus Delaware LLC)

Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware

ProposedNo reception on recordRecord updated October 1, 2026

Middletown Technology Center (Cirrus Delaware LLC) is a proposed data center in Middletown, Delaware (New Castle County), operated by Cirrus Delaware, LLC. The public record puts it at 40 MW planned, 70 acres.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator: Cirrus Delaware, LLC
Facility type: Data center
Location: Middletown, New Castle County, DE
Coordinates: 39.4498, -75.7166 (approximate)
Power capacity: 40 MW planned
Land: 70 acres
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: Not established from a public source
Utility: Not established from a public source
Power source: Mixed
On site generation: 52.5 MW
Cooling: Not established from a public source
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: 117 permanent; 750 construction
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

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

October 2017
Proposed
Per the dcmap.us activity log, Cirrus put its Middletown air-permit application on hold. No later activity was found. Source: dcmap.us
May 4, 2016
Proposed
Delaware Infrastructure Investment Committee voted 4-0 to approve up to $7.5M in New Jobs Infrastructure Fund money for the project's utility infrastructure. The approval was conditioned on a DNREC air permit, financing disclosure, identification of the operator, and payment on a reimbursement basis. Source: Delaware Economic Development Office
2015
Proposed
Middletown Town Council approved plans for the Middletown Technology Center: a 228,000 sq ft, 40 MW data center with a natural-gas cogeneration plant on 70 acres in the town's Westown area. DBT reports the approval came in August 2015. Data Center Knowledge's report is dated Aug 5, 2015. Source: Delaware Business Times

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of October 1, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Middletown Technology Center (Cirrus Delaware LLC) in Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware 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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Power and water

Per the applicant at the May 2016 IIC meeting, the facility would 'mostly pull power from the PJM grid from Middletown' over 138 kV lines from an adjacent substation. An on-site natural-gas cogeneration plant would supply redundancy and peak-period power within air-permit hour limits. DBT and Data Center Knowledge (2015) give the gas plant as 52.5 MW. At the 2016 IIC meeting the applicant described the data center as 40 MW, with 36 MW of white space at a design PUE of 1.4, for a 50 MW total requirement at full build.

Notes on the record

Never built, and apparently dormant since the air-permit application was put on hold in October 2017. Status stays 'proposed' because no source records a formal withdrawal or cancellation. Treat the status as stalled, not active. The $7.5M state grant was conditional and reimbursement-only. No evidence was found that it was disbursed, so it is not recorded in subsidies. Sources disagree on cost: $250M (DCK 2015), about $400M (DBT 2015) and $350M (applicant, IIC 2016), so the investment figure is unset. Jobs figures are the applicant's 2016 IIC projections. DBT 2015 cited 'more than 100' full-time and up to 2,000 construction jobs. Partners named at the IIC meeting were Duffield Associates (now Verdantas), MEP Associates and landowner Mautom, LLC. The end operator was never disclosed. The pin is Middletown's OSM boundary centroid, because the 70-acre Westown parcel did not resolve to a point.

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.

Cooling method and water use
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
How the community has received it
Which utility serves it

Which document closes each gap

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.
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.

St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms · St. Georges · Parkway Gravel Inc.8 mi · Proposed · 300 MW · Contested
Project Washington (Starwood Digital Ventures) · Delaware City · Starwood Digital Ventures11 mi · Proposed · 1.2 GW · In litigation
Data Canopy Newark (350 Pencader Drive) · Newark · Data Canopy11 mi · Operating · 6 MW
JPMorgan Chase Core Data Center 1 (CDC1), Bear · Bear · JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.14 mi · Operating
STAR Campus Data Center & Cogeneration Plant (The Data Centers, LLC) · Newark · The Data Centers, LLC15 mi · Cancelled · Opposed
White Clay Corporate Center Data Center Redevelopment · Newark · Shelbourne16 mi · Proposed · Contested
DāSTOR New Castle (3 Boulden Circle) · New Castle · DāSTOR LLC18 mi · Operating · 8 MW
State of Delaware Biggs Data Center (DTI) · New Castle · Delaware Department of Technology and Information19 mi · Operating

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Middletown Technology Center (Cirrus Delaware LLC) data center in Middletown?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Middletown Technology Center (Cirrus Delaware LLC) data center?

No lawsuit over Middletown Technology Center (Cirrus Delaware LLC) appears in the record we track as of October 1, 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 Middletown Technology Center (Cirrus Delaware LLC) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Middletown Technology Center (Cirrus Delaware LLC) 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 Middletown Technology Center (Cirrus Delaware LLC), and how big is it?

Cirrus Delaware, LLC is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 40 MW. The site is recorded at 70 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Middletown Technology Center (Cirrus Delaware LLC)," updated October 1, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/cirrus-delaware-middletown-technology-center-de.

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/cirrus-delaware-middletown-technology-center-de, retrieved October 11, 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.Plans afoot for Middletown data center, power plant (70 acres, 228,000 sq ft, 40 MW, 52.5 MW co-generation) · Delaware Business Times · retrieved October 1, 2026
2.Delaware Infrastructure Investment Committee minutes, May 4, 2016: Cirrus Delaware, LLC request for up to $7,500,000 · Delaware Economic Development Office · retrieved October 1, 2026
3.Officials Approve Data Center and Cogen Plant Project in Delaware · Data Center Knowledge · retrieved October 1, 2026
4.Delaware Data Center Map: Cirrus Delaware Middletown Technology Center, 'Paused' (Mar 2016 air-permit application; Oct 2017 put on hold) · dcmap.us · retrieved October 1, 2026

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