Data center project · Merrimack County, New Hampshire
Locke Road micro data center (East Concord)
Proposed · A small immersion-cooled data center with an office, garage and caretaker unit proposed for an industrially zoned East Concord parcel, which city staff classified as a permitted use. Also known as: 52 Locke Road.
- Status
- Proposed · as of Oct. 19, 2026
- Location
- 52 Locke Road, East Concord · Merrimack County
- Status note
- Under 50 MW. A major site plan is before the Concord Planning Board, with a public hearing set for Oct. 21, 2026, as of Oct. 19 reporting.
- Power
- 15 MW
Under 50 MW. Levitate says it sizes its micro data centers, including this design, at 15 MW of energy use; the figure is a company class size, not a site-specific utility or city filing. - Floor area
- 8,160 sq ft
- Land
- 21 acres
- Developer and team
- Granite Municipal Manufacturing & Sales, LLC (landowner); Northpoint Engineering, LLC (applicant's engineer); Levitate Inc. (design and cooling technology)
- End user
- Not identified
- Water
- Single-phase immersion cooling in a closed loop; a 4-inch municipal water line (cut from 6 inches) is for fire suppression and limited domestic use, not server cooling, per the engineer.
- Evidence
- News reports; primary records not yet obtained
- Size class
- Under 50 MW (outside main scope; kept for completeness)
Updates, newest first
- Oct. 19, 2026 Levitate's CEO described the site as one of three similar pilots and said he hoped to start building by year's end; the Conservation Commission had reviewed a permit to replant about an acre of wetland buffer cleared in 2025. (Concord Monitor, Oct. 19, 2026)
- Sept. 16, 2026 The Planning Board was scheduled to rule on whether the application was complete; staff recommended finding it complete and not of regional impact. (Concord Monitor, Sept. 14, 2026)
- Sept. 14, 2026 The Monitor reported a major site plan for an 8,160-square-foot building, about 7,220 square feet of it data center space, on a nearly 21-acre lot with about 9.3 buildable acres; an earlier self-storage plan for the lot had been withdrawn in July. (Concord Monitor, Sept. 14, 2026)
- June 2026 City Planner Kellie Caron classified the micro data center as comparable to computer processing, a use allowed in the industrial district, so no variance was required. (Concord Monitor, Oct. 19, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
- The 15 MW figure is the company's class size for its micro data centers, not a figure from a utility or city filing.
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