Data Center Registry
DCIP DeSoto County Data Center (Roan Street)
Arcadia, DeSoto County, Florida
DCIP DeSoto County Data Center (Roan Street) is a permitted data center in Arcadia, Florida (DeSoto County), operated by DCIP Group (DeSoto County Industrial Park). The public record puts it at 34.22 acres. It faces documented, organized local opposition.
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Facility record
Permitted
- Operator
- DCIP Group (DeSoto County Industrial Park)
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- 3800 NE Roan Street, Arcadia, DeSoto County, FL
- Coordinates
- 27.2237, -81.8041 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 34.22 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Power source
- On site gas
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- 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
- Opposed
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
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.
- March 24, 2026PermittedDeSoto County Board approved a PUD rezoning and Concept Development Plan (RZNE-0077-2025) for a 35,134 sq ft data center facility and office with an electrical generation facility on 34.22 acres at 3800 NE Roan Road. Source: DeSoto County Board of County Commissioners
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Organized local opposition to DCIP DeSoto County Data Center (Roan Street) in Arcadia, DeSoto County, Florida is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. Public comment at the DeSoto County Commission was nearly unanimously opposed; commissioners voted 4-0 (one recusal) on 23 June 2026 to move forward with a one-year moratorium on new data center applications, which does not apply to DCIP's pending applications.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: opposed means documented, organized local opposition is the dominant signal on record.
Public comment at the DeSoto County Commission was nearly unanimously opposed; commissioners voted 4-0 (one recusal) on 23 June 2026 to move forward with a one-year moratorium on new data center applications, which does not apply to DCIP's pending applications.
Power and water
The approved rezoning covers a data center facility and office together with an on-site electrical generation facility at a decommissioned power plant site. Reporting on the site plan describes an Energy Transfer natural gas station, a 1.5-million-gallon diesel fuel storage tank, and two 600-foot-deep water wells.
Notes on the record
First DeSoto County data center: a 35,134 sq ft facility and office with on-site electrical generation on 34.22 acres at a decommissioned power plant site. Two further rezonings covering roughly 828 additional acres and about 8.3 million sq ft of building area (RZNE-0086-2026 and RZNE-0087-2026, filed May 2026) are pending public hearings; the developer has described an eventual footprint of roughly 1,300 acres. Recorded as one site because all three applications are the same developer on contiguous land split by Roan Street.
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
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deep Park Data Center (North Port 300) · North Port · North Port Holdings 300 LLC (end operator undisclosed)20 mi · Proposed · Contested
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the DCIP DeSoto County Data Center (Roan Street) in Arcadia?
Yes. Organized local opposition to DCIP DeSoto County Data Center (Roan Street) in Arcadia, DeSoto County, Florida is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. Public comment at the DeSoto County Commission was nearly unanimously opposed; commissioners voted 4-0 (one recusal) on 23 June 2026 to move forward with a one-year moratorium on new data center applications, which does not apply to DCIP's pending applications.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the DCIP DeSoto County Data Center (Roan Street)?
No lawsuit over DCIP DeSoto County Data Center (Roan Street) appears in the record we track as of September 21, 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 DCIP DeSoto County Data Center (Roan Street) use?
No water withdrawal figure for DCIP DeSoto County Data Center (Roan Street) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates DCIP DeSoto County Data Center (Roan Street), and how big is it?
DCIP Group (DeSoto County Industrial Park) is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 34.22 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "DCIP DeSoto County Data Center (Roan Street)," updated September 21, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/dcip-arcadia-roan-street-fl.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/dcip-arcadia-roan-street-fl, retrieved October 1, 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.DeSoto County, FL, Data Center Applications portal: RZNE-0077-2025 (DCIP, 34.22 ac, 35,134 sq ft, Board approval 24 March 2026); RZNE-0086-2026 (DCIP & 3-F Ranch, 274.26 ac, 3,686,125 sq ft) and RZNE-0087-2026 (Swisher, 553.79 ac, 4,655,000 sq ft) pending hearings · DeSoto County Board of County Commissioners · retrieved September 14, 2026
- 2.WGCU, "After public outcry, DeSoto County moves forward on data center moratorium" (DCIP Group, 34 acres rezoned March 2026 at a decommissioned power plant on Roan Street; phase one not yet built; 800+ acre expansion pending) · WGCU Public Media · retrieved September 21, 2026
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