Data Center Registry
Maui High Performance Computing Center
Kihei, Hawaii · All 2 University of Hawaiʻi sites
Maui High Performance Computing Center is an operating data center in Kihei, Hawaii, operated by University of Hawaiʻi (for Air Force Research Laboratory).
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- University of Hawaiʻi (for Air Force Research Laboratory)
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- 550 Lipoa Pkwy, Kihei, HI, 96753
- Coordinates
- 20.7493, -156.4396 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- 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
- 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 October 21, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Maui High Performance Computing Center in Kihei, Hawaii 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
A real, currently-operating federal HPC installation on Maui: one of five DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers, run as an Air Force Research Laboratory Center managed by the University of Hawaiʻi since 1993. A new $11,980,000 Department of War contract awarded to UH in January 2026 (work through May 2031, for satellite-resiliency research/modeling) confirms it is still active as of September 2026, not a legacy listing. As of September 2026, none of the three sources then cited published a street address. Business directories (Yelp, Yellow Pages) independently and consistently name 550 Lipoa Pkwy, Kihei as the address, and the US Census geocoder resolves that exact string to a valid address at this zip (96753), although as of September 2026 neither directory page could be retrieved directly. An undated Sandia National Laboratories conference speaker bio for the center's executive director, cited since October 2026, lists 550 Lipoa Parkway, Kihei, HI 96753-6900. The pin is approximate. No AI-specific capability was named in the three sources cited in September 2026 (the recent contract is satellite-resiliency modeling), so no AI classification is recorded.
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
- Land area
- 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.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- 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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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Maui High Performance Computing Center data center in Kihei?
Nothing on record as of October 21, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Maui High Performance Computing Center in Kihei, Hawaii 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 Maui High Performance Computing Center data center?
No lawsuit over Maui High Performance Computing Center appears in the record we track as of October 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 Maui High Performance Computing Center use?
No water withdrawal figure for Maui High Performance Computing Center 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 Maui High Performance Computing Center, and how big is it?
University of Hawaiʻi (for Air Force Research Laboratory) is the operator on record. We hold 2 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Maui High Performance Computing Center," updated October 21, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/uh-mhpcc-kihei-hi.
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/uh-mhpcc-kihei-hi, 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.AFRL's Maui site lowers barriers to high performance computing · Air Force Research Laboratory · retrieved September 12, 2026
- 2.System: Maui High Performance Computing Center donates supercomputer to UH Hilo · University of Hawaii News · retrieved September 12, 2026
- 3.$11.9M DOW Air Force contract awarded to UH to support the Maui High Performance Computing Center · Maui Now · retrieved September 12, 2026
- 4.Speaker bio listing Maui High Performance Computing Center address · Sandia National Laboratories · retrieved October 21, 2026
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