The site
The site from above
Power
Power and the grid
1.5 MW contracted
Legacy utility service (Florida Power & Light)Company claim, legacy connection only
company says 1.5 MW is operating on grid power today; no large-load agreement with the utility Company · Feb. 2026
Behind-the-meter gas, full-site claimProposed, no air permit filed
developer says up to 4 GW of gas turbines (press); a Feb. 2026 conference profile says 1 GW on 500 acres with GE LM6000 turbines; nothing built or permitted News report · June 2026
Phased on-site expansion planProposed
company plan: 40 MW added per quarter on the existing site; Phase 2 is an 80 MW block of gas engines Company · Feb. 2026
ContractedProposed
Getting on the grid
Who supplies what, what it costs, and what is still not public.
- Feb. 1, 2026Gas turbine and engine plan publishedA conference profile describes gas engines for Phase 2 and aeroderivative turbines for later phases, with battery storage in the design. Company · Feb. 2026
- March 1, 2026County accepts the behind-the-meter argumentCommissioners accepted that on-site generation is not a public-utility power plant, despite a planning-staff finding of possible conflict with the growth plan. see Permits
- June 12, 2026Water permit changes not filedThe water district says a data-center use needs a permit modification and that no environmental resource permit application has arrived. see Permits
- As of Oct. 2026No air permit filedNo Florida air-permit application for the gas generation was found. see Permits
- Not setGas supply: no agreementThe nearby Florida Gas Transmission pipeline is the whole basis of the gas plan; no interconnect or supply agreement was found. see Permits
- The developer says the project will not draw from the local grid, and no electric service agreement with Florida Power & Light was found. News report · May 2026
- No site work, building permit or construction has been reported; any roofs seen in satellite imagery of the site belong to the retired power plant, not this project. News report · June 2026
- No plant for this campus appears in EIA's federal generator inventory (EIA-860M, Aug. 2026). That inventory covers grid-connected plants only, so an off-grid plant may not be listed yet. State agency · Oct. 2026
Permits
Permits checklist
1 pending · 2 granted · 5 checked, nothing on file
- ◷Expansion rezoning, 800+ acres (3-F Ranch and Swisher properties) PendingDeSoto County Planning Commission and Board of County Commissioners · Oct. 6, 2026: Planning Commission recommended denial of the 3-F Ranch part; Swisher part undecided; the commissioners' vote is still pending News report · Oct. 2026
- ✓Rezoning, 34-acre former plant site GrantedDeSoto County Board of County Commissioners · March 1, 2026: approved with a 55 dBA noise condition News report · March 2026
- ✓Growth-plan interpretation (behind-the-meter power) GrantedDeSoto County Board of County Commissioners · March 1, 2026: county accepted the developer's reading over staff concerns News report · June 2026
- –Checked, nothing on file: Air permit for on-site gas generation, Water use permit modification for a data center, Environmental resource permit, Reclaimed water agreement, Electric and gas supply agreements
Risks
What could slow it down
- HighExpansion rezoning recommended for denialThe Planning Commission voted on Oct. 6, 2026 to recommend denial, saying the project is not ready. This is a recommendation only; the commissioners decide. News report · Oct. 2026
- HighDeveloper concedes it is earlyDCIP's own June 2026 letter says the project has not been engineered, fully entitled or permitted. Company · June 2026
- HighNo air, water or fuel approvalsNo air permit, water permit change, environmental resource permit, gas agreement or reclaimed-water agreement is on record. see Permits
- MediumNo tenant or financingNo tenant, lease, lender or committed capital is named in any source. Company · Oct. 2026
- MediumOrganized opposition and politicsA resident petition, packed hearings and a congressional race in which most candidates opposed the project or its fast-track handling. News report · Aug. 2026
- WatchMoratorium exemption could be revisitedThe Planning Commission asked that DCIP be included in the freeze; the commissioners exempted it, citing legal concerns. News report · July 2026
Money
Money on record
~$4B value the developer suggested for the initial property once built (developer claim reported by press, May 2026). News report · May 2026
Not on record: capital or financing: no lender, equity sponsor, bond or credit facility found News report · Oct. 2026; incentives, per the developer: none requested, county grant program eligibility exists (up to 30% of annual property taxes for $25M+ projects) but is unused Company · June 2026
Timeline
What happened, and what is due
SitePaper trailConstructionPowerPermitsMoneyLegalUpcoming
- Oct. 22, 2008Site LS Power buys the DeSoto County Generating Company, owner of the Arcadia gas plant that later closed News report · Oct. 2008
- April 21, 2025Permits County invites the project into its fast-review program, a letter the developer calls an expression of intent, not a commitment Company · April 2025
- April 29, 2025Paper trail DCIP Group registered in Wyoming
- Feb. 1, 2026Site Project promoted publicly at a Fort Lauderdale conference as sitting on more than 1,000 acres News report · Feb. 2026
- March 1, 2026Permits County commissioners rezone 34 acres of the old plant site News report · March 2026
- March 25, 2026Site Residents launch a petition urging officials to reject the project News report · June 2026
- May 14, 2026Permits Public-records emails show county staff were told to move the application quickly News report · June 2026
- June 12, 2026Permits Water district confirms no permit modification or environmental resource permit has been filed News report · June 2026
- June 19, 2026Site DCIP's CEO writes that the project has not been engineered, fully entitled or permitted Company · June 2026
- June 23, 2026Permits Commissioners direct a data-center moratorium to be drafted; no resident speaks in support of the project News report · June 2026
- July 1, 2026Permits County adopts a one-year moratorium on new data-center applications, exempting DCIP's pending applications News report · Aug. 2026
- Oct. 6, 2026Permits Planning Commission recommends denying the 3-F Ranch expansion rezoning, citing unanswered questions on water, sound and site design News report · Oct. 2026
- July 2027Permits One-year county moratorium on new applications runs out unless extended; DCIP's pending applications are exempt News report · July 2026
Construction activity
Satellite captures by quarter
Since March 2022: 71 satellite captures. The chart starts in the first quarter of 2023; 4 earlier records are not drawn.
Satellite
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Dot size: records in the quarter, largest = 6. Two-digit years mark each first quarter.
The buildings
Specs
825 to 1,300 acres
full footprint if approved (press: 825 in May 2026, up to 1,300 eventually)
0 to 3 million gal a day
water use, per the CEO; cooling technology not selected and no closed-loop schematics exist
10+ jobs
at or above the county median wage, the stated target-industry qualification
- Dozen-plus buildings: more than a dozen facilities at full build-out in early maps; Phase 1 is the 34-acre plant site News report · June 2026
Who is involved
Owners, partners and builders
Owners and developers
- DCIP Group: developer; Jon Brown is CEO, Wilson Trilha is founder and chairman, Kevin Ratliff is CTO
- DeSoto Industrial Park, LLC: project entity named in county letters
- LS Power: former owner of the retired plant on the site
Decision-makers
- DeSoto County Board of County Commissioners: rezoning and moratorium
- DeSoto County Planning Commission: recommended denial of the expansion
- Southwest Florida Water Management District: water permits
- Florida DEP: air permits
Power and utilities
- Florida Power & Light: legacy site service, no large-load deal
- Florida Gas Transmission: nearby pipeline, no supply deal
- City of Arcadia: possible reclaimed-water supplier
Advisers
- SWCA Environmental Consultants: environmental consultant to DCIP
- Todd Smith: adviser who promoted the project publicly
Opponents
- Resident petition and hearing speakers including Sarah Hollenhorst, Asha Stalnaker and Eugene Turner
Still unknown
Open questions
- The county commissioners' vote on the expansion rezoning.
- Any tenant, lender or committed capital.
- Whether air, water and gas applications are ever filed.
- Which capacity figure is real: 4 GW, 1 GW or the 80 MW first block.
- 6 unconfirmed county land records near the site: the buyer or location could not be tied to this campus.
Where this comes from
270 records from 22 documents
Drawn from news reports, state agency records, public and commercial datasets, business registries, company statements and satellite captures, each kept with its date and source. The bar shows documents by type.
News report 14State agency 5Dataset 3Company 2Satellite 0
Evidence
Every quote behind this page
Grade key: A = the primary record itself (permit, filing, exhibit) · B = a dated official statement · C = news reporting. Map distances are our own measurements on OpenStreetMap and carry no grade. Allegations in lawsuits are marked as such in the quotes.
Power (27)
- Predecessor air facility on site: DESOTO COUNTY GENERATING COMPANY, LLC, ECHO Air facility FL0000001202700016 at 3800 Northeast Roan Street, Arcadia FL (the decommissioned power plant occupying the DCIP PUD site; a pred“DESOTO COUNTY GENERATING COMPANY, LLC; 3800 NORTHEAST ROAN STREET; ARCADIA FL”State agency · Oct. 2026 · grade A
- Nearest substation: 1.16 kmMeasured on OpenStreetMap map data.
- Nearest transmission line: 1.14 kmMeasured on OpenStreetMap map data.
- Nearest gas pipeline: 1.24 kmMeasured on OpenStreetMap map data.
- IT capacity: not disclosed MW“Phase 2: 80 MW Tier III campus powered by onsite natural gas reciprocating engines”Company · Oct. 2026 · grade B
- Grid operator: none (FRCC region; Florida has no ISO/RTO market)“Florida Reliability Coordinating Council region; no ISO market in Florida”State agency · Oct. 2026 · grade B
- Power plan: onsite (proposed behind-the-meter gas microgrid; nothing built or permitted)“DCIP is developing a Behind-the-Meter (BTM) facility. This means power generated on-site is consumed on-site and does not enter or burden the public utility grid”Company · June 2026 · grade B
- Paper or real: Paper: the CEO's own Jun 19 2026 letter concedes the project has not been engineered, fully entitled, or permitted; no FDEP air permit, no SWFWMD consumptive-use modification, no ERP, no tenant, no financi“The DCIP project has not been engineered, fully entitled, or permitted”Company · June 2026 · grade B
- Interconnection status: none - no interconnection agreement; behind-the-meter concept only“power generated on-site is consumed on-site and does not enter or burden the public utility grid”Company · June 2026 · grade B
- Developer: DCIP Group“DCIP Group is transforming a retired 340 MW natural gas power plant in Arcadia, Florida”Company · Feb. 2026 · grade B
- On-site generation: 480 MW“Phased Expansion: Add 40 MW per quarter, scaling to 480 MW across the existing site”Company · Feb. 2026 · grade B
- On-site generation: 1,000 MW“Expand to 1 GW across 500 acres with GE LM6000 aeroderivative turbines”Company · Feb. 2026 · grade B
- Utility: Florida Power & Light (legacy site grid service only; no large-load agreement)“Phase 1: 1.5 MW operational today on FP&L grid power”Company · Feb. 2026 · grade B
- On-site power technology: natural gas reciprocating engines (Phase 2 plan); gas turbines (later phases); battery storage in the microgrid design; none installed“Phase 2: 80 MW Tier III campus powered by onsite natural gas reciprocating engines (Hyundai 20H35PFV or Wärtsilä 31GS), with full N+1 redundancy”Company · Feb. 2026 · grade B
- Generator maker and model: Hyundai 20H35PFV or Wärtsilä 31GS (reciprocating engines, Phase 2); GE LM6000 (future aeroderivative turbines)“Expand to 1 GW across 500 acres with GE LM6000 aeroderivative turbines”Company · Feb. 2026 · grade B
- Current target date: none stated“Phased Expansion: Add 40 MW per quarter, scaling to 480 MW across the existing site”Company · Feb. 2026 · grade B
- System context only, NOT a campus position: FPL's data-center / large-load demand forecast was raised to 8 GW by 2032 (from 6 GW), with ~21 GW of large-load interest in FPL's pipeline, 12 GW in advanced discussions; No p“US utility NextEra Energy has raised its forecast for data center and other large-load demand at its Florida subsidiary, Florida Power & Light (FPL), to 8GW by 2032, up from a previous estimate of 6GW.”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Name: DCIP DeSoto“In March, DeSoto County voted to rezone 34 acres of land on a decommissioned power plant to allow the company DCIP Group”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Change.org petition launched urging rejection of the project (noise, water, land clearing, traffic, lighting, wildlife, drainage, air quality, property values); still active in Jun 2026“A petition opposing a proposed AI data center in DeSoto County is calling on local and state decision-makers to reject the project”News report · June 2026 · grade C
- Stated campus size: 4,000 MW“it would rely on natural-gas turbines the developers say could be capable of generating up to 4 gigawatts of electricity”News report · June 2026 · grade C
- Interconnection status: none - no grid draw planned by design: the developer has promised not to draw from the local power grid and plans on-site natural gas generation supplied from the Florida Gas Transmission Pipeline“And although the developers have promised not to draw from the local power grid, gas-powered data centers like this one pose their own environmental risks”News report · May 2026 · grade C
- Stated campus size: 4,000 MW“compared to the 4,000 that DCIP Group says its site could one day demand”News report · May 2026 · grade C
- Utility service: none - no utility service agreement; developer states the project will not draw from the local grid MW“although the developers have promised not to draw from the local power grid”News report · May 2026 · grade C
- Gas supplier: Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) pipeline - the pipeline crosses the county and serves the site concept; no interconnect or supply agreement found“using natural gas supplied from the Florida Gas Transmission Pipeline”News report · May 2026 · grade C
- Announced: March 2026“On March 24, the DeSoto County Commission approved an AI data center to be built outside of Arcadia, at the site of a former natural gas plant”News report · March 2026 · grade C
- Phase 1 site history: Initial facility sits on the site of a decommissioned power plant on Roan Street, Arcadia“approved DCIP Group's request to rezone 34 acres for an initial data center facility on the site of a decommissioned power plant on Roan Street”News report · March 2026 · grade C
- Acres: 34 acres“In March, DeSoto County voted to rezone 34 acres of land on a decommissioned power plant”News report · March 2026 · grade C
Money and contracts (19)
- Stated capital cost: none stated - no committed capital disclosed in any source“The DCIP project has not been engineered, fully entitled, or permitted”Company · June 2026 · grade B
- Incentives: none requested (company statement); county BIG Program eligibility (Ordinance April 2015) exists but is unused“DCIP is not requesting, and has not requested, any incentives from the county, the city, or the state”Company · June 2026 · grade B
- county Rapid Response Team pilot program qualification: termination / cancellation / conditions none - no termination, cancellation or condition clauses exist; the letter is an expression of intent, not a binding commitm“It is an expression of intent, not a binding commitment”Company · June 2026 · grade B
- economic development incentive eligibility (BIG Program, Ordinance No. April 2015): scope Ordinance April 2015 (adopted Apr 28, 2015) establishes the Business Incentive Grant (BIG) Program; a Specialized Capital Intensive Indu“Section 4 of Ordinance 2015-04 defines a category called Specialized Capital Intensive Industry: an industry requiring a capital investment of at least $25 million”Company · June 2026 · grade B
- economic development incentive eligibility (BIG Program, Ordinance No. April 2015): incentive rate Section 5(n) authorizes an enhanced Capital Incentive rate of up to 30% of annual real and personal property taxes received,“Section 5(n) authorizes an enhanced Capital Incentive rate (up to 30% of annual real and personal property taxes received) for qualifying investments exceeding $25 million”Company · June 2026 · grade B
- economic development incentive eligibility (BIG Program, Ordinance No. April 2015): jobs floor the standard ten-job minimum for BIG Program eligibility is waived for Specialized Capital Intensive Industries (Section 5(d)) j“Section 5(d) further provides that the standard ten-job minimum for BIG Program eligibility is waived for Specialized Capital Intensive Industries”Company · June 2026 · grade B
- economic development incentive eligibility (BIG Program, Ordinance No. April 2015): status - incentives requested none - DCIP states it is not requesting, and has not requested, any incentives from the county, the city, or“DCIP is not requesting, and has not requested, any incentives from the county, the city, or the state”Company · June 2026 · grade B
- reclaimed water supply agreement: status NOT EXECUTED - negotiations ongoing (company letter, Jun 19 2026); no signed reclaimed water agreement; SB 484 requires reclaimed water for large-scale data center water allocatio“The absence of a signed reclaimed water agreement with the City of Arcadia at this stage reflects standard pre-entitlement practice. Negotiations are ongoing.”Company · June 2026 · grade B
- county Rapid Response Team pilot program qualification: scope project qualifies as a target industry under the county's Rapid Response Team pilot program (invitation letter Apr 21, 2025)“DeSoto County Economic Development Director Sondra Guffey invited DCIP to participate in the county's Rapid Response Team pilot program”Company · April 2025 · grade B
- county Rapid Response Team pilot program qualification: jobs condition project would create at least ten jobs at or above the county's median wage jobs“would create at least ten jobs at or above the county's median wage”Company · April 2025 · grade B
- county Rapid Response Team pilot program qualification: review timeline the county stated it would strive to review the project within 14 days rather than the standard 30 days“the county stated it would strive to review the project within 14 days rather than the standard 30 days”Company · April 2025 · grade B
- Tenant status: none found - no tenant, lease, LOI or offtake named in any source checked“This bundled, resilient power supply allows tenants to stabilize long-term costs while meeting Tier III+ standards demanded by hyperscalers”Company · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Financing: none found - no lender, equity sponsor, bond or credit facility disclosed“The energy-intensive project would pull thousands of megawatts if it reaches the ultimate size the company has advertised to investors”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Stage: announced only / entitlement in progress - paper project: 34 of ~1,300 acres rezoned, expansion rezoning recommended for denial on Oct 6 2026, no state permits, no tenant, no financing“voted to recommend denying a rezoning request for the 3-F Ranch property”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Square feet: 8000000 sq ft“a proposed hyperscale project in DeSoto County that would total more than 8 million square feet”News report · Aug. 2026 · grade C
- Assessed value: 4000000000 USD“DCIP Group has suggested that the initial property, once built, could be valued at close to $4 billion”News report · May 2026 · grade C
- electric service agreement: status NONE FOUND - no ESA, interconnection agreement or large-load contract; the developer states the project will not draw from the local grid (a legacy site connection serves a claimed 1.5“although the developers have promised not to draw from the local power grid”News report · May 2026 · grade C
- gas supply / interconnect agreement: status NONE FOUND - no FGT interconnect or gas transportation agreement in any source; pipeline adjacency is the entire basis of the gas plan“using natural gas supplied from the Florida Gas Transmission Pipeline”News report · May 2026 · grade C
- Conditions of approval: 55 dBA noise limit 200 feet from nearby property lines (imposed with the Mar 2026 rezoning)“During the March rezoning approval, commissioners imposed a 55 A-weighted decibel noise limit 200 feet from nearby property lines”News report · March 2026 · grade C
Permits and government (24)
- Florida SB 484 signed (Chapter 2026-65), effective Jul 1 2026: bans agency NDAs on data center developments, preserves local land-use authority over large load customers, and sets a consumptive-use-permit pathway for lar“Local governments shall maintain the authority to exercise the powers and responsibilities for comprehensive planning and land development regulation granted by law with respect to large load customers”State agency · July 2026 · grade B
- DCIP published a signed rebuttal letter conceding the project has not been engineered, fully entitled, or permitted, and stating it has not requested any incentives“The DCIP project has not been engineered, fully entitled, or permitted”Company · June 2026 · grade B
- any multi-GW gas build would require FDEP air permitting“Air Permit Document Search is a user-friendly method to view air permit documents online”State agency · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Project status: County land-use stage - DeSoto County planning commission recommended DENIAL of the 3-F Ranch expansion rezoning on Oct. 7, 2026; Phase 1 (34 acres) rezoned March 2026; county moratorium in train“DeSoto County's planning commission spent hours questioning a developer and county staff about a proposed data center, and in the end voted to recommend denying a rezoning request for the 3-F Ranch property (published 2026-10-07)”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- rezoning (expansion): pending - application to rezone 800+ additional acres (3-F Ranch and Swisher properties); the Planning Commission recommended DENIAL for the 3-F Ranch property on Oct 6 2026; Swisher decision pendin“voted to recommend denying a rezoning request for the 3-F Ranch property”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- DeSoto County Planning Commission: expansion rezoning - 3-F Ranch property (Swisher property also pending)“spent hours questioning a developer and county staff about a proposed data center, and in the end voted to recommend denying a rezoning request for the 3-F Ranch property”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- moratorium ordinance: adopted - one-year moratorium on new data center applications; DCIP's pending applications exempt“the DeSoto County Commission recently approved a one-year moratorium on data centers, officials exempted the DCIP proposal”News report · Aug. 2026 · grade C
- DeSoto County Board of County Commissioners: moratorium ordinance adoption“DeSoto County Commissioners unanimously passed a one-year moratorium on new data center applications”News report · Aug. 2026 · grade C
- DeSoto County Planning Commission: moratorium proposal review“the county's planning commission reviewed the moratorium proposal and voted to recommend a two-year moratorium and asked the county to include DCIP Group's pending proposal in that development freeze”News report · July 2026 · grade C
- Construction stage: none - no site work, building permit or construction reported; entitlement steps only“The company pitched that facility, which has not yet been built, as phase one in a longer-term project”News report · June 2026 · grade C
- Opposition: organized resident opposition: Change.org petition (launched Mar 25 2026), packed hearings with no speaker in support (Jun 23 2026), named advocates incl. Sarah Hollenhorst, Asha Stalnaker and Eugene Turner“Speaker after speaker echoed Stalnaker's sentiment, with not one resident speaking in support of the pending project”News report · June 2026 · grade C
- DeSoto County Board of County Commissioners: proposed one-year moratorium on new data center applications“By a unanimous vote, four of the county's commissioners, one recused himself, agreed to direct the county attorney to prepare language for an ordinance”News report · June 2026 · grade C
- comprehensive plan interpretation: the county accepted DCIP's position that behind-the-meter generation is not a public-utility power plant and is an ancillary use, avoiding the growth-plan bar on rezoning agricultural l“commissioners accepted DCIP's argument that the proposed data center does not meet the county's definition of a power plant, planning staff had concluded the project could conflict with the comprehensive plan policies”News report · June 2026 · grade C
- county public-records emails show staff were directed to move the application quickly and skipped the normal review and comment process (Planning Director Misty Servia email, May 14 2026)“We are trying to get these items to the board quickly per their direction”News report · June 2026 · grade C
- water use permit (consumptive use): existing permit issued for the former power plant; transferred into DCIP's name in 2025“DCIP Group transferred that permit into their name last year but has not yet applied to modify it for use as a data center”News report · June 2026 · grade C
- water use permit modification: NOT FILED - the district confirms a modification is required for data-center use; under SB 484 (eff. Jul 1 2026) data-center permit changes are treated as new applications and require Gover“the Water Management District confirmed to WSLR News that a modification would be necessary”News report · June 2026 · grade C
- environmental resource permit: NOT FILED - the district confirms no ERP application has been received“The district also confirms it has received no Environmental Resource Permit application for the project”News report · June 2026 · grade C
- SWFWMD Governing Board adopted a policy requiring full board approval for any water use permit associated with a data center“the Southwest Florida Water Management District's Governing Board adopted a new policy requiring board approval for any water use permit associated with a data center”News report · June 2026 · grade C
- Phase 1 rezoned acres: 34 acres“DeSoto commissioners voted to rezone 34 acres of land on Roan Street for an initial data center facility in March”News report · March 2026 · grade C
- Rezoning date: March 2026 (34 acres approved by the BOCC)“In March, DeSoto County voted to rezone 34 acres of land on a decommissioned power plant”News report · March 2026 · grade C
- rezoning: approved - 34 acres, former power plant site on Roan Street; 55 dBA noise condition attached“In March, DeSoto County voted to rezone 34 acres of land on a decommissioned power plant”News report · March 2026 · grade C
- DeSoto County Board of County Commissioners: rezoning of 34 acres (former power plant site, Roan Street) for DCIP's first data center“During the March rezoning approval, commissioners imposed a 55 A-weighted decibel noise limit 200 feet from nearby property lines”News report · March 2026 · grade C
- Florida Senate committee: SB 484 data center legislation - testimony“Jon Brown, CEO of DCIP Group, spoke at a senate committee meeting in January about a new bill regulating data centers”News report · Jan. 2026 · grade C
- Land control date: 2025 (the site water use permit was transferred into DCIP's name; deed records not retrieved)“DCIP Group transferred that permit into their name last year but has not yet applied to modify it for use as a data center”News report · 2025 · grade C
Site and other (14)
- County code: 12027“DeSoto County, Florida FIPS 12027”grade B
- Project entity name: DeSoto Industrial Park, LLC“the DeSoto Industrial Park, LLC project qualifies as a target industry”Company · June 2026 · grade B
- Address: 3800 NE Roan Street, Arcadia, FL 34266“dcipgroup.tech | 3800 NE Roan Street, Arcadia, FL 34266”Company · June 2026 · grade B
- Workforce estimate: at least 10 jobs at or above the county median wage (Rapid Response target-industry qualification)“That letter confirmed that the DeSoto Industrial Park, LLC project qualifies as a target industry and would create at least ten jobs at or above the county's median wage”Company · April 2025 · grade B
- the project and its moratorium exemption became an issue in the FL-16 congressional race; most candidates of both parties opposed the project or its fast-track handling“the data center proposal should not be approved in its current form”News report · Aug. 2026 · grade C
- Moratoria: one-year moratorium on new data center applications adopted Jul 2026; DCIP's pending applications expressly exempt“Although the DeSoto County Commission recently approved a one-year moratorium on data centers, officials exempted the DCIP proposal from the freeze, citing legal concerns”News report · July 2026 · grade C
- Phases: more than a dozen facilities at full build-out (initial maps); Phase 1 = the 34-acre former plant site“include more than a dozen additional facilities”News report · June 2026 · grade C
- Expansion acres sought: 800+ acres“DCIP Group has since asked the county to rezone more than 800 additional acres to expand and has signaled it would eventually seek to build on as many as 1,300 acres”News report · June 2026 · grade C
- Cooling: closed-loop (company claim; no schematics exist)“Despite its commitment to using a closed loop water system, DCIP Group does not yet have any schematics for the technology”News report · June 2026 · grade C
- Acres: 825 acres“bringing the project's proposed total footprint to more than 825 acres”News report · May 2026 · grade C
- Acres: 1300 acres“the final project, if approved by the county, would span 1,300 acres”News report · May 2026 · grade C
- DCIP adviser Todd Smith promoted the project on LinkedIn ahead of a Fort Lauderdale conference (more than 1,000 acres of developable land) and an April Houston conference (one of the largest data center projects on Earth“calling it one of the largest data center projects on Earth”News report · May 2026 · grade C
- Water use stated: 0 to 3000000 (CEO range; technology not yet selected) gal/day“It could use as little as zero gallons of water a day, or as many as 3 million, he said”News report · May 2026 · grade C
- Announced: Feb. 2026 (public promotion at a Fort Lauderdale digital infrastructure conference; county engagement began Apr 2025)“Before a digital infrastructure conference in Fort Lauderdale in February, a DCIP Group adviser announced on LinkedIn that the project was sitting on more than 1,000 acres of developable land”News report · Feb. 2026 · grade C
Imagery and records: Aerial imagery: local aerial photography via Esri World Imagery Wayback.