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Rowan Digital Infrastructure Bauxite II

Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland · All 4 Rowan Digital Infrastructure sites

PermittedNo reception on recordRecord updated September 10, 2026

Rowan Digital Infrastructure Bauxite II is a permitted data center in Frederick, Maryland (Frederick County), operated by Rowan Digital Infrastructure. The public record puts it at 111.5 acres.

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Facility record

Permitted

Operator
Rowan Digital Infrastructure
Facility type
Data center
Location
Frederick, Frederick County, MD
Coordinates
39.3400, -77.5150 (approximate)
Power capacity
Not established from a public source
Land
111.5 acres
Investment
Not established from a public source
Announced
Not established from a public source
Utility
Potomac Edison (FirstEnergy)
Power source
Grid
Cooling
Not established from a public source
Water use
0.392 million gallons a day, reported
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

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.

  1. December 12, 2024
    Permitted
    Frederick County Planning Commission approved the Bauxite II site plan unanimously (6-0). Source: The Frederick News-Post via Yahoo News

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Rowan Digital Infrastructure Bauxite II in Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland 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

Served initially from the FirstEnergy Sage Substation; Rowan plans to build an adjacent substation for a direct connection.

Site plan filings state 392,000 gallons per day for cooling. Bauxite II and III together require about 1.081 million gpd, nearly exhausting the 1.3 million gpd first-phase allocation under Frederick County's Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance agreement.

Notes on the record

Second phase of Rowan's three-phase Bauxite campus on the former Alcoa Eastalco site inside Quantum Frederick. Four data center buildings plus auxiliary buildings on 111.5 acres; Rowan states delivery in 2026. Per-phase MW is not stated consistently across sources, so capacityMw is omitted; Rowan describes the combined three-phase campus as about 600-630 MW across 375 acres. Re-checked 2026-09-10: status confirmed PERMITTED, no change. Re-fetched the Planning Commission approval article; no newer filings or status developments found this run. Per-phase MW remains genuinely unstated in every source found (Rowan only quotes the combined ~600-630 MW campus figure), consistent with the existing record's deliberate omission of capacityMw.

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
  • How the community has received 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.
How the community has received it
Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.

Have one of these documents? Send it to us and we will add it to the record with attribution.

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.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Rowan Digital Infrastructure Bauxite II data center in Frederick?

Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Rowan Digital Infrastructure Bauxite II in Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland 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 Rowan Digital Infrastructure Bauxite II data center?

No lawsuit over Rowan Digital Infrastructure Bauxite II 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 Rowan Digital Infrastructure Bauxite II use?

0.392 million gallons a day is the reported figure on record. Site plan filings state 392,000 gallons per day for cooling.

Who operates Rowan Digital Infrastructure Bauxite II, and how big is it?

Rowan Digital Infrastructure is the operator on record. We hold 4 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 111.5 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Rowan Digital Infrastructure Bauxite II," updated September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/rowan-bauxite-ii-frederick-md.

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/rowan-bauxite-ii-frederick-md, 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. 1.Planning Commission approves two more Rowan data centers (Frederick News-Post) · The Frederick News-Post via Yahoo News · retrieved August 26, 2026
  2. 2.Bauxite I, II & III, Hyperscale Data Center Campus, Maryland · Rowan Digital Infrastructure · retrieved August 26, 2026

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