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.
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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
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Okee-One Data Center Campus in Okeechobee, Okeechobee County, Florida 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
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 capacityMw field is set here). 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
- 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.
- Sentinel Grove Technology Park (Project Jarvis) · Fort Pierce · Undisclosed developer (marketed as 'Sentinel Grove Technology Park', county code-named 'Project Jarvis')22 mi · Cancelled
- Willow Lakes Data Center (West Midway Road) · Fort Pierce · Willow Lakes LLC (end operator undisclosed)27 mi · Proposed
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Okee-One Data Center Campus in Okeechobee?
Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Okee-One Data Center Campus in Okeechobee, Okeechobee County, Florida 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.
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 September 10, 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 September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/okee-one-irsc-okeechobee-fl.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/okee-one-irsc-okeechobee-fl, retrieved September 14, 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
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