Proposed-site record
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NEOtrans reports Lakeland Equity Group's proposed $1.6 billion, 150 MW Cleveland hyperscale campus and the developer's responses on power and cooling. Data Center Dynamics reports the city rejected the permit and that the proposed end user remained unidentified. WUSF reports Lakeland's Project Swan applicant withdrew from a June 2026 review meeting but that the city considered the project active and under review; a July 2026 follow-up records Lakeland utility officials discussing the review and a proposed 12-month pause for large-load customers. The reviewed sources do not disclose a facility workload, hardware or training/inference split.
Lakeland Equity Group is the developer/proponent; the end user is not identified. WUSF's June and July 2026 reports distinguish a withdrawn review meeting from withdrawal of the active project. Lakeland's August 3 ordinance applies the 12-month moratorium to pending applications without a final development order, including development and utility approvals, but does not decide the project's eventual land-use status or disclose workload. The reported 150 MW is proposed IT/project context, not a workload allocation, and the closed-loop cooling description does not establish workload type, hardware or training/inference.
Sources reviewed; workload unresolved · Reviewed 2026-09-09Training/inference: unknown · class: unknownNEOtrans: More details emerge on Cleveland data centerData Center Dynamics: $1.6bn data center plan rejected in Cleveland, OhioWUSF: Still active: Lakeland issues correction, clarification on proposed data center statusWUSF: ‘Take a breath’: Experts weigh in on data center moratorium in LakelandCity of Lakeland: Legal notice: Moratorium business impact estimateCity of Lakeland: Ordinance 26-018 — temporary moratorium on data centers and large-load customersSource leads point to attached records or reporting. They still need field-level review before being treated as verified evidence.
Source dataset project_cost field reports $1.6 billion; public funding records still need local review.
Source review September 9, 2026: Cleveland's moratorium findings describe large standalone data centers as potentially significant water and infrastructure users, but the reviewed project sources do not disclose Lakeland's water source, cooling method, withdrawal, or wastewater capacity.
Source review September 9, 2026: reporting identifies Lakeland's rejected proposal as a 150 MW, three-building campus. Cleveland's July 2026 moratorium pauses review and permits for new standalone data centers through October 16, 2026; it does not establish a utility agreement, requested load, energized capacity, generation, or data-center IT load for this project.
No fuel-cell or Bloom Energy source is attached to this project yet.
No NDA reported
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