Data Center Registry
Okee-One Data Center Campus
Okeechobee, Okeechobee County, Florida
Okee-One Data Center Campus is a cancelled data center in Okeechobee, Florida (Okeechobee County), operated by Indian River State College. The public record puts it at 205 acres. It faces documented, organized local opposition.
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Facility record
Cancelled
- Operator
- Indian River State College
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use likely
- Location
- Okeechobee, Okeechobee County, FL
- Coordinates
- 27.2467, -80.8303 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 205 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- 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
- Rural Infrastructure Fund, $2 million, State of Florida (Department of Commerce)
- Community reception
- Opposed
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Organized local opposition to Okee-One Data Center Campus in Okeechobee, Okeechobee County, Florida is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. Residents raised noise and well-water contamination concerns.
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.
Residents raised noise and well-water contamination concerns. Okeechobee County commissioners then dropped 'Special Technology Opportunity Centers' from the long-term growth plan, which effectively killed the project. The state's commerce department withdrew support, saying the college's plans were 'based on falsehoods'.
Public money on the record
| Program | Amount | Granted by | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rural Infrastructure Fund | $2 million | State of Florida (Department of Commerce) |
Notes on the record
Indian River State College's 'Okee-One' project on the former Florida School for Boys site off US 441, a 205-acre site reported by WLRN as a 9-to-10-megawatt facility (figure given as a range, not a single confirmed number, so no capacity is recorded). Effectively shut down after Okeechobee County commissioners voted April 23, 2026 to remove the 'Special Technology Opportunity Centers' designation from the county's comprehensive economic growth plan, following a petition against the project that gathered more than 3,000 signatures. The state had previously granted IRSC $1.5M from the Rural Infrastructure Fund for the project; DeSantis administration officials later told Tampa Bay Times they felt misled about its scale and AI-data-center purpose.
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
- 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.
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- 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.
- Sentinel Grove Technology Park (Project Jarvis) · Fort Pierce · Undisclosed developer (marketed as 'Sentinel Grove Technology Park', county code-named 'Project Jarvis')22 mi · Cancelled
- Silver Fox 606 AI Data Center Campus · Indiantown · Silver Fox 606 LLC24 mi · Proposed · 1 GW · Contested
- Willow Lakes Data Center (West Midway Road) · Fort Pierce · Willow Lakes LLC (end operator undisclosed)27 mi · Proposed · Opposed
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Okee-One Data Center Campus in Okeechobee?
Yes. Organized local opposition to Okee-One Data Center Campus in Okeechobee, Okeechobee County, Florida is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. Residents raised noise and well-water contamination concerns.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Okee-One Data Center Campus?
No lawsuit over Okee-One Data Center Campus appears in the record we track as of October 2, 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 Okee-One Data Center Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Okee-One Data Center Campus 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 Okee-One Data Center Campus, and how big is it?
Indian River State College is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 205 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Okee-One Data Center Campus," updated October 2, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/okee-one-irsc-okeechobee-fl.
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/okee-one-irsc-okeechobee-fl, 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.Scrapped data center in Okeechobee County mirrors rising opposition to data centers in South Florida · WLRN · retrieved September 10, 2026
- 2.Future uncertain for Florida data center campus project in Okeechobee · Tampa Bay Times · retrieved September 10, 2026
- 3.DeSantis officials gave $1.5M to data center campus. They say they were tricked · Tampa Bay Times (via Yahoo News) · retrieved October 2, 2026
- 4.Vote by Okeechobee County commissioners kills controversial Okee-One data center project · WPTV · retrieved October 2, 2026
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