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Delaware Data Center Investment Tracker

Name: Delaware Data Center Investment and Capital-at-Risk Record
Creator: SAVRN
Published: 2026-08-24
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Delaware shows 5 blocked, delayed or restricted data center projects in the Capital Atlas, 3 cancelled or blocked, and no named capital commitment on record as of October 8, 2026.

Updated October 8, 2026 0 named sites 5 blocked, delayed or restricted 0 financing transactions 10 sources

Delaware

0 capital providers on record

Named sites

Site-level commitments the atlas records in Delaware

Disclosed capital floor

n.a.

Sum of sites with a stated dollar figure. Sites without one are listed, not counted

Disclosed capacity

n.a.

Sum of sites with a stated megawatt figure

Blocked, delayed or restricted

$10.0B of announced capital in those projects

Who is investing

Who is investing in data centers in Delaware?

No capital provider has a named site commitment on record in Delaware as of October 8, 2026. The atlas records a site the day it can be tied to a filing, an issuer release, a government announcement or reporting of record, not before. The activity here is on the other side of the ledger: 5 projects blocked, delayed or restricted, listed below.

Named sites

Named data center sites in Delaware

No named site commitment is on record in Delaware as of October 8, 2026.

Capital at risk

Blocked, delayed or restricted in Delaware

Every project in Delaware on the atlas's capital-at-risk record: the action taken, who took it, and the announced capital affected. Restarts and reversals are recorded with the same weight as blocks.

Project	Developer	Jurisdiction	Action	Capital
Project Washington denied March 26, 2026	Starwood Digital Ventures	Delaware (Coastal Zone Appeal)	Delaware Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board unanimously upheld DNREC Secretary's decision that 'Project Washington' data center is not allowed under the Coastal Zone Act.	$10.0B
Harrington conditional-use ordinance rejection rejected Rejected 17 August 2026	n.a.	City of Harrington, Kent County	City council members voted unanimously on 17 August 2026 to reject an ordinance that would have added data centers as a conditional use in the city's manufacturing zone. Without the amendment, data centers cannot be built in Harrington, including a proposed 24 MW facility at the former Harrington Logistics building. Residents cited water, sewer and electrical infrastructure capacity and noise. Reporting notes the developer had offered the city $1 million.	n.a.
New Castle County data center moratorium moratorium Enacted March 2026	n.a.	New Castle County	New Castle County, Delaware, enacted a local data center moratorium or ban, recorded in SAVRN's moratorium tracker as dated March 2026. Council voted 12-0 for zoning regulations: 1,000-foot residential buffer (500 ft with noise study), closed-loop cooling required, energy-efficient backup generators, decommissioning funds; existing projects exempt. The measure has no end date by design.	n.a.
Project Washington data center (Delaware City) withdrawn Appeal withdrawn early July 2026; reported 28 August 2026	Starwood Digital Ventures	State of Delaware (Coastal Zone Act)	Delaware Environmental Secretary Greg Patterson ruled the Project Washington plans would violate the Coastal Zone Act, and a state board upheld the decision. Starwood appealed to Delaware Superior Court but voluntarily withdrew the appeal in early July 2026, two days after the legislature passed stricter data center bills. With no remaining challenge, the project cannot proceed under its current design. A Starwood spokesman said the company is still seeking a pathway forward.	n.a.
White Clay Center data center campus (Newark) paused Pause agreed by email 10 June 2026; reported 2 July 2026. Reported by Spotlight Delaware	Shelbourne	New Castle County	New Castle County Councilman Tim Sheldon said he brokered a nonbinding handshake deal under which developer Shelbourne agreed to pause the data center plan and consider other uses for the site. An email dated 10 June 2026 from the developer's attorney agreed to the pause, conditioned on county approval of an exploratory plan that would grandfather the land under prior zoning rules. The developer retains the legal right to build a data center.	n.a.

Policy context

What governs a data center in Delaware

Delaware (data center ratepayer and clean energy laws)state

Applies to hyperscale data centers in Delmarva Power territory; also bars data centers from job-creation tax credits

Governor Matt Meyer signed a package on 26 August 2026 requiring Delmarva Power to create a separate, higher rate for hyperscale data centers, assigning them transmission, distribution and capacity costs where possible, requiring load reduction at peak, and requiring data centers to generate their own renewable-portfolio-eligible power over a 10-year period with cleaner backup power.

The policy layer for Delaware lives in three companion references: the Delaware Data Center Moratorium Tracker for every state measure and local moratorium on record, the Water Tracker for the water rules that touch a site, and the Grid Operator Watchlist for the large-load rules of the RTO or utility that decides whether it can energize.

Next door

States next door

New Jersey

4 sites · $1.8B disclosed

61 blocked, delayed or restricted

Pennsylvania

16 sites · $30.5B disclosed

42 blocked, delayed or restricted

Maryland

1 site

22 blocked, delayed or restricted

On the map

Data centers in Delaware

The US Data Center Map identifies 7 facilities run by 6 operators in Delaware, each one placed from primary sources and listed by city and by operator, with this atlas record beside it.

Delaware data centers

7 facilities · 6 operators

Map, locations, operators, rules

Delaware power and local economy

Generation, utilities and county records

Explore the power supply chain and local conditions behind the build-out

US Data Center Map

Every state, one page each

The national map and the operator directory

Sources

Sources for Delaware

Every source cited on this page, once each. The full atlas source register is at Capital Atlas sources.

spotlightdelaware.orgspotlightdelaware.org
delawarepublic.orgdelawarepublic.org
delawarepublic.orgDelaware Public Media
spotlightdelaware.orgSpotlight Delaware
delawarebusinesstimes.comDelaware Business Times
delawarepublic.orgdelawarepublic.org
spotlightdelaware.orgSpotlight Delaware
spotlightdelaware.orgSpotlight Delaware
whyy.orgWHYY
yahoo.comThe Cool Down via Yahoo

Every state, one page each

Alabama 9 / 21 Alaska 1 / 1 Arizona 11 / 11 Arkansas 2 / 8 California 10 / 35 Colorado 6 / 21 Connecticut 0 / 6 Delaware 0 / 5 Florida 0 / 46 Georgia 23 / 57 Hawaii 0 / 0 Idaho 2 / 2 Illinois 10 / 35 Indiana 14 / 44 Iowa 3 / 22 Kansas 5 / 19 Kentucky 6 / 26 Louisiana 7 / 3 Maine 0 / 20 Maryland 1 / 22 Massachusetts 0 / 11 Michigan 4 / 55 Minnesota 3 / 31 Mississippi 7 / 5 Missouri 10 / 25 Montana 1 / 10 Nebraska 3 / 16 Nevada 8 / 12 New Hampshire 0 / 5 New Jersey 4 / 61 New Mexico 3 / 10 New York 6 / 21 North Carolina 10 / 45 North Dakota 6 / 4 Ohio 24 / 80 Oklahoma 11 / 20 Oregon 1 / 8 Pennsylvania 16 / 42 Rhode Island 0 / 5 South Carolina 6 / 20 South Dakota 1 / 6 Tennessee 6 / 26 Texas 106 / 35 Utah 11 / 12 Vermont 0 / 3 Virginia 33 / 50 Washington 9 / 22 Washington, DC 0 / 0 West Virginia 4 / 3 Wisconsin 4 / 45 Wyoming 11 / 5

Figures beside each state are named sites and blocked, delayed or restricted projects.

Part of the North American Data Center Capital Atlas, refreshed every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Announced commitments overlap one another and overlap reported capital expenditure, so this page shows disclosed floors and never adds them into a single deployment figure. Informational, not investment or legal advice.

The SAVRN reference set

Seven references, one system

Capital, delay, policy, water, grid, permits and scarcity are one system seen from seven sides. Each reference is primary-sourced, refreshed on a schedule, and links into the others, so a project can be followed from the money committed to the docket that stopped it.

Delay Watchlist

Project-level slippage: named projects, jurisdictional actions, utility and federal dockets, SEC disclosures, and the interconnection queue.

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Moratorium Tracker

The policy layer: every state measure and local moratorium mapped and cited, with one page per state.

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Water Tracker

Every federal, state, local and interstate water measure that touches a data center, plus a fifty-state water ledger.

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Grid Operator Watchlist

ERCOT, PJM, MISO, CAISO, SPP, NYISO, ISO-NE and FERC: the large-load rules, filings and queue positions that decide whether a site can energize.

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Permits and Power Development

Data center and substation permits, large loads in the interconnection queues, and the power plants planned to serve them, refreshed hourly from public records.

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SAVRN Scarcity Tracker

Eleven primary-sourced indicators of AI infrastructure scarcity, one composite index, read against the token index, SAVRN's own cost basis and the frontier ceiling.

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