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St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms
St. Georges, New Castle County, Delaware
St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms is a proposed data center in St. Georges, Delaware (New Castle County), operated by Parkway Gravel Inc. The public record puts it at 300 MW planned. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record. The record for this site rests on a single unverified source and should be read that way.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Parkway Gravel Inc.
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- St. Georges, New Castle County, DE
- Coordinates
- 39.5593, -75.6543 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 300 MW planned
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- 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
- Contested
- Source confidence
- Rumored: a single unverified source
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.
- November 2025ProposedRevised site plan filed for St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms at 3.2 million sq ft (up from an original 2.5 million sq ft / three distribution buildings + 150 homes). The developer's engineering firm, Verdantas, told the county the zoning allows 'distribution centers, fulfillment centers, truck terminals, warehouses, and data centers' on the parcel. Source: Spotlight Delaware
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms in St. Georges, New Castle County, Delaware is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. The site includes land hosting Frightland, a well-known Delaware Halloween attraction, which would be demolished.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.
The site includes land hosting Frightland, a well-known Delaware Halloween attraction, which would be demolished. The proposal has drawn resident backlash over energy-cost and environmental impact, which Spotlight Delaware cites as a driver of New Castle County's new data-center zoning ordinance (buffer/setback, noise, and cooling-water rules).
Notes on the record
Confidence is 'rumored' rather than 'reported' because sources disagree on whether the ultimate use will be a data center: county filings and press describe a mixed-use industrial park (distribution/fulfillment/warehouse) for which Delaware zoning also happens to permit data centers, and coverage attributes to the developer's engineering firm only that 'the developer may be planning to build a data center', not a confirmed data-center project. A Delmarva Power internal project list obtained via FOIA (Technical.ly, sourceIndex 2) separately lists a 300 MW 'St. Georges/Frightland Area' project 'pending cluster study analysis'; this record treats it as the same site given the shared name/geography, though the FOIA-based list does not itself name Parkway Gravel Inc., so treat the capacityMw.planned=300 figure with that caveat. Square footage progression (2.5M sq ft → 3.2M sq ft) is not recorded in a dedicated field since it describes the broader mixed-use park, not a confirmed data-center footprint. Location precision is approximate: geocoded to the unincorporated place of St. Georges, DE (OSM); some press coverage instead characterizes the site as 'in Middletown' given proximity. The specific parcel south of the C&D Canal off US Route 13 did not resolve via geocoding.
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
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- 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.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with 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.
- Project Washington (Starwood Digital Ventures) · Delaware City · Starwood Digital Ventures4 mi · Proposed · 1.2 GW · In litigation
- STAR Campus Data Center & Cogeneration Plant (The Data Centers, LLC) · Newark · The Data Centers, LLC9 mi · Cancelled · Opposed
- White Clay Corporate Center Data Center Redevelopment · Newark · Shelbourne10 mi · Proposed · Contested
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms data center in St. Georges?
Yes. St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms in St. Georges, New Castle County, Delaware is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. The site includes land hosting Frightland, a well-known Delaware Halloween attraction, which would be demolished.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms data center?
No lawsuit over St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms appears in the record we track as of September 12, 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 St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms use?
No water withdrawal figure for St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms 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 St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms, and how big is it?
Parkway Gravel Inc. is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 300 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms," updated September 12, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/parkway-gravel-st-georges-de.
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/parkway-gravel-st-georges-de, 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.Two New Castle County industrial projects may become data centers · Spotlight Delaware · retrieved September 12, 2026
- 2.After months of debate, New Castle County Council agrees to regulate the data center industry · Spotlight Delaware · retrieved September 12, 2026
- 3.Newly public records reveal four pending Delaware data center projects · Technical.ly · retrieved September 12, 2026
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