Data center project · Cumberland County, Maine
Scarborough High Technology Industrial Park
Paused by moratorium · A landowner's master plan for a two-story contract data processing building on 52 acres, returned as incomplete and then caught by a town moratorium. Also known as: Scarborough Technology Park.
- Status
- Paused by moratorium · as of June 3, 2026
- Location
- Roughly 52 acres on the west side of the Maine Turnpike, Scarborough · Cumberland County
- Status note
- The town's 180-day moratorium, retroactive to applications filed on or after April 1, covers the master plan.
- Power
- Not reported
No power figure in the sources reviewed; the application described natural-gas solid oxide fuel cells. - Land
- 52 acres
- Developer and team
- Daniel Dickinson (landowner)
- Water
- Application described a closed-loop cooling system.
- Evidence
- News reports; primary records not yet obtained
- Size class
- Under 50 MW (outside main scope; kept for completeness)
Updates, newest first
- Sept. 2026 Councilors discussed changing the zoning ordinance to bar data centers from every district and set a second hearing for Oct. 21. (Portland Press Herald, Sept. 22, 2026)
- June 3, 2026 The Town Council unanimously passed a 180-day data center moratorium; the developer's lawyer said the first phase had been approved in 2025, while the planning director said a data center was not mentioned until after the governor's veto. (Spectrum News Maine, June 8, 2026; Portland Press Herald, May 28, 2026)
- April 2026 Dickinson filed the master plan on April 20; the planning office returned it as incomplete in late April, citing missing aquifer, historic site and utility-service information. (Maine Public, May 6, 2026; Portland Press Herald, May 28, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
- The June 3 vote date pairs the Press Herald's notice of the scheduled vote with Spectrum's June 8 report that it had passed the week before; town minutes were not opened.
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