# Rhode Island Data Center Investment Tracker Source: https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/rhode-island Markdown alternate of the page above; the site index is https://savrn.com/llms.txt --- Named sites 0 Site-level commitments the atlas records in Rhode Island 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 5 Projects on the capital-at-risk record here Who is investing ## Who is investing in data centers in Rhode Island? No capital provider has a named site commitment on record in Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island No named site commitment is on record in Rhode Island as of October 8, 2026. Capital at risk ## Blocked, delayed or restricted in Rhode Island Every project in Rhode Island 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 | Sources | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Charlestown data center and battery storage banmoratorium Aug 11 2026 | n.a. | Town of Charlestown | The town council voted unanimously on 11 August 2026 to prohibit data centers and battery energy storage systems, the second municipal data center ban in Rhode Island and the first ban on battery energy storage projects. No data center had been proposed in the town; officials described the ordinance as preventative. | n.a. | | | Cumberland zoning prohibition on data centers (Ordinance 26-22)moratorium Adopted 6-1 on 16 September 2026; permanent zoning prohibition; single outlet | n.a. | Cumberland Town Council | The Cumberland Town Council voted 6-1 on Wednesday 16 September 2026 to adopt Ordinance 26-22, listing data centers as a prohibited use under the town zoning ordinance. Three residents spoke at the public hearing, all in favor. The sponsor cited electricity prices and water use and another Rhode Island town's experience with a data center proposal. | n.a. | | | Lincoln data center ban (all zoning districts)moratorium Approved 18 August 2026 | n.a. | Lincoln Town Council | The Lincoln Town Council unanimously approved a zoning amendment on 18 August 2026 that bans data centers throughout the town. The ordinance lists data centers as a prohibited use in every zoning district. A councilor said the town wanted to act before a developer submitted a proposal, citing limited land, water supply and utility resources, and councilors said the restriction could be reconsidered later. | n.a. | | | Revity Energy business park and data center, Hanton Citylitigation Ban adopted 5 May 2026, effective 4 June 2026; Superior Court suit filed 15 September 2026 (reported 1 October 2026); zoning board appeal hearing moved from 7 October 2026 to January 2027 | Revity Energy LLC | Town of Smithfield | Revity Energy proposed a business park including a data center at Hanton City in March 2026. After public opposition, Smithfield's planning board and town council voted to ban such development in early May 2026, the first municipal data center ban in Rhode Island. Single-sourced from a secondary account in the Charlestown reporting; the Smithfield record has not been confirmed from a Smithfield source. Developers Hanton City Investments LLC and ROK LLC are appealing the town administrative officer's 11 June 2026 decision that their major land development application for the Smithfield Corporate Complex at 364 George Washington Highway was incomplete. The application was filed a day before the Town Council adopted a data center ban. The Zoning Board of Review hearing on the appeal, postponed from 2 September 2026, was rescheduled for 7 October 2026, according to a Town Council member. The Smithfield record is now confirmed from local sources: the Town Council adopted the zoning amendment listing data centers as not permitted in every district 4-1 on 5 May 2026, effective 4 June 2026, and described it as a precautionary interim control. Hanton City Investments LLC and ROK LLC say they filed a substantially complete application on 4 May 2026; the town issued certificates of incompleteness on 29 May and 11 June 2026. The developers have filed two Superior Court lawsuits, one submitted 15 September 2026, arguing that the ban is inconsistent with the comprehensive plan, amounts to an unlawful moratorium, and that the application was wrongly found incomplete. The town says it will defend the ban. The zoning board appeal remains set for 7 October 2026. The Zoning Board of Review did not hear the developer's appeal of the town planner's incomplete-application ruling on 7 October 2026; the agenda moved it to January 2027, and the developer's counsel said the postponement was due to two pending lawsuits against the town. | n.a. | | | Westerly data center moratoriummoratorium Jul 27 2026 | n.a. | Town of Westerly | The town council adopted a one-year moratorium blocking all data centers on 27 July 2026 by voice vote, while the planning board drafts zoning rules. The town manager said data centers were not covered by the existing ordinance. | n.a. | | Policy context ## What governs a data center in Rhode Island The policy layer for Rhode Island lives in three companion references: the [Rhode Island Data Center Moratorium Tracker](https://savrn.com/data-center-moratorium-tracker/rhode-island) for every state measure and local moratorium on record, the [Water Tracker](https://savrn.com/data-center-water-tracker) for the water rules that touch a site, and the [Grid Operator Watchlist](https://savrn.com/data-center-grid-operator-watchlist) for the large-load rules of the RTO or utility that decides whether it can energize. Next door ## States next door Massachusetts 0 sites 11 blocked, delayed or restricted Connecticut 0 sites 6 blocked, delayed or restricted On the map ## Data centers in Rhode Island The US Data Center Map identifies 7 facilities run by 3 operators in Rhode Island, each one placed from primary sources and listed by city and by operator, with this atlas record beside it. Rhode Island data centers 7 facilities · 3 operators Map, locations, operators, rules Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island Every source cited on this page, once each. The full atlas source register is at [Capital Atlas sources](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/sources). - progressive-charlestown.com[Progressive Charlestown](https://www.progressive-charlestown.com/2026/08/charlestown-bans-data-centers-battery.html) - upriseri.com[Uprise RI](https://upriseri.com/article/cumberland-council-bans-data-centers-in-zoning-ordinance-on-6-1-vote/) - valleybreeze.com[The Valley Breeze: Lincoln bans data centers, updates flood rules and reviews water connection](https://www.valleybreeze.com/news/lincoln/lincoln-bans-data-centers-updates-flood-rules-and-reviews-water-connection/article_0b9319a2-5c3f-4f2b-be3c-3babec0c32ed.html) - valleybreeze.com[The Valley Breeze: Data center appeal again postponed in Smithfield](https://www.valleybreeze.com/news/data-center-appeal-again-postponed-in-smithfield/article_b4363df4-6206-49c7-9de4-19f3968701f0.html) - msn.com[WPRI 12 News (via MSN)](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/smithfield-faces-legal-action-over-data-center-ban-project-review/ar-AA2dnQmL) - valleybreeze.com[The Valley Breeze, 1 October 2026](https://www.valleybreeze.com/news/smithfield-to-defend-decision-to-ban-data-center/article_835489a3-e09c-49ca-9bb0-bd860de9c280.html) - turnto10.com[WJAR NBC 10](https://turnto10.com/news/local/smithfield-holds-hearing-on-proposed-data-center-oct-7-2026) - progressive-charlestown.com[Progressive Charlestown](https://www.progressive-charlestown.com/2026/08/westerly-council-adopts-one-year-data.html) ### Every state, one page each [Alabama 9 / 21](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/alabama)[Alaska 1 / 1](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/alaska)[Arizona 11 / 11](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/arizona)[Arkansas 2 / 8](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/arkansas)[California 10 / 35](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/california)[Colorado 6 / 21](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/colorado)[Connecticut 0 / 6](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/connecticut)[Delaware 0 / 5](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/delaware)[Florida 0 / 46](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/florida)[Georgia 23 / 57](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/georgia)[Hawaii 0 / 0](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/hawaii)[Idaho 2 / 2](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/idaho)[Illinois 10 / 35](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/illinois)[Indiana 14 / 44](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/indiana)[Iowa 3 / 22](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/iowa)[Kansas 5 / 19](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/kansas)[Kentucky 6 / 26](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/kentucky)[Louisiana 7 / 3](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/louisiana)[Maine 0 / 20](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/maine)[Maryland 1 / 22](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/maryland)[Massachusetts 0 / 11](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/massachusetts)[Michigan 4 / 55](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/michigan)[Minnesota 3 / 31](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/minnesota)[Mississippi 7 / 5](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/mississippi)[Missouri 10 / 25](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/missouri)[Montana 1 / 10](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/montana)[Nebraska 3 / 16](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/nebraska)[Nevada 8 / 12](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/nevada)[New Hampshire 0 / 5](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/new-hampshire)[New Jersey 4 / 61](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/new-jersey)[New Mexico 3 / 10](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/new-mexico)[New York 6 / 21](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/new-york)[North Carolina 10 / 45](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/north-carolina)[North Dakota 6 / 4](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/north-dakota)[Ohio 24 / 80](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/ohio)[Oklahoma 11 / 20](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/oklahoma)[Oregon 1 / 8](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/oregon)[Pennsylvania 16 / 42](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/pennsylvania)[Rhode Island 0 / 5](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/rhode-island)[South Carolina 6 / 20](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/south-carolina)[South Dakota 1 / 6](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/south-dakota)[Tennessee 6 / 26](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/tennessee)[Texas 106 / 35](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/texas)[Utah 11 / 12](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/utah)[Vermont 0 / 3](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/vermont)[Virginia 33 / 50](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/virginia)[Washington 9 / 22](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/washington)[Washington, DC 0 / 0](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/washington-dc)[West Virginia 4 / 3](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/west-virginia)[Wisconsin 4 / 45](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/wisconsin)[Wyoming 11 / 5](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas/wyoming) Figures beside each state are named sites and blocked, delayed or restricted projects. Part of the [North American Data Center Capital Atlas](https://savrn.com/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. [Open the watchlist →](https://savrn.com/data-center-delay-tracker) Moratorium Tracker The policy layer: every state measure and local moratorium mapped and cited, with one page per state. Open the tracker → Water Tracker Every federal, state, local and interstate water measure that touches a data center, plus a fifty-state water ledger. Open the water tracker → 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. Open the watchlist → 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. Open the permits tracker → 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. Open the scarcity tracker → Have a specific address? Site Intelligence reads all seven references against one location, county, utility and grid operator included, and cites every finding. [Check an address →](https://savrn.com/site-intelligence)