The site
The site from above
1Permits
Permits checklist
1 withdrawn · 5 checked, nothing on file
Approvals a campus like this normally needs, and what we found. Nothing past the first county hearing was ever reached.
- ↩Land-use amendment and rezoning (agricultural to special district) WithdrawnSt. Lucie County · Feb. 2026: planning board recommended against 4-2 on Oct. 16, 2025; withdrawn before any County Commission vote News report · Oct. 2026
- –Checked, nothing on file: County Commission vote, Air permit for backup generators, Water management permits, Wetlands permit, Utility service request
Risks
Why it stopped, what could revive it
- HighCancelled as filedThe only land-use application was withdrawn, and the land stays zoned for agriculture. News report · Feb. 2026
- HighLocal oppositionNearby rural landowners and ranchers spoke against it at the planning hearing, and the board voted 4-2 against. News report · Oct. 2025
- MediumNo tenant or financingThe developer said it had no tenant, and no lender or sponsor filing exists. News report · Oct. 2025
- MediumTougher state rulesSB 484 makes large loads pay full cost of service and requires a water-use hearing for data centers. State agency · Oct. 2026
- WatchRevival is possibleThe county has no moratorium, and a resubmission to county staff would reopen the process. News report · Oct. 2026
Power
Power and the grid
None energized or contracted yet
Florida Power & Light, grid serviceContemplated, never contracted
1 GW and a 20-year minimum contract were described in an economic-development report (press); no contract was ever signed News report · Nov. 2025
Approved
Getting on the grid
Who supplies what, what it costs, and what is still not public.
- Nov. 6, 2025Utility supply described, not signedAn economic-development report describes a 20-year minimum FPL contract for 1 GW under the utility's large-load tariff framework (press account). News report · Nov. 2025
- As of Oct. 2026No interconnection request on recordNo interconnection request, service agreement or state utility-commission filing exists for this campus in any source checked. see Permits
- July 1, 2026State law changes the rulesSB 484 takes effect: large-load customers bear their full cost of service (50 MW threshold) and local governments keep land-use authority. State agency · Oct. 2026
- The nearest FPL 230 kV substation is about 1.9 km from the site anchor, and a Florida Gas Transmission pipeline about 1.2 km away (map data; the anchor is approximate). OpenStreetMap · Oct. 2026
- Under the proposed terms, FPL would cover incremental costs through its large-load tariff, with power generated near Sunbreak Farms, further west (press account of the EDC report). News report · Nov. 2025
What is next door
- 11.17 km · gas pipeline
- 21.31 km · 138 kV transmission line
- 31.85 km · substation
- 48.36 km · 345 kV+ transmission line
Distances from mapped lines and plants. OpenStreetMap · Oct. 2026
Money
Money on record
$13.5B
stated capital cost
press; the county report says it would be fully privately financed News report · Jan. 2026
$15M
price paid for the land, July 2024
by Epic Estates 68 LLC, 15 months before the project went public News report · July 2024
Not on record: tenant, lender or fund: no financing or sponsor filing found SEC filing · Oct. 2026
Timeline
What happened, and what is due
SitePaper trailConstructionPowerPermitsMoneyLegalUpcoming
- April 17, 2024Paper trail Epic Estates 68 LLC is formed in Florida SEC filing · April 2024
- April 17, 2024Paper trail Epic Estates 68 LLC registered in Florida
- July 2024Site Epic Estates 68 buys the 1,218-acre tract for $15M News report · Oct. 2026
- Oct. 16, 2025Permits Project unveiled under its EDC codename; county planning board votes 4-2 to recommend against the land-use change News report · Oct. 2025
- Nov. 6, 2025Power Economic-development report describes a 20-year, 1 GW FPL supply deal (press) News report · Nov. 2025
- Dec. 4, 2025Site Gov. DeSantis proposes data-center legislation, including local power to reject projects News report · Oct. 2026
- Jan. 11, 2026Site Commissioner Cathy Townsend says the data center is not coming to the county News report · Oct. 2026
- Feb. 2026Permits Applicant withdraws the application, ahead of the new state law News report · Oct. 2026
- May 12, 2026Site Local press finds no developer activity since the withdrawal News report · Oct. 2026
- July 1, 2026Legal SB 484 takes effect, keeping local land-use authority and requiring large loads to pay full cost of service State agency · Oct. 2026
- Aug. 4, 2026Site State map lists the project as withdrawn indefinitely; the county has adopted no moratorium News report · Oct. 2026
Construction activity
Satellite captures by quarter
Since March 2022: 70 satellite captures. The chart starts in the first quarter of 2023; 4 earlier records are not drawn.
Satellite
’23
’24
’25
’26
Dot size: records in the quarter, largest = 6. Two-digit years mark each first quarter.
The buildings
Specs
Up to 15 million sq ft
buildings in the filed plan (an earlier version was 20 million)
370 jobs
full-time, plus 2,000 remote, per the county economic-development report
Who is involved
Owners, partners and builders
Developer and owners
- Timberline Real Estate Partners (Texas): applicant and developer
- Epic Estates 68 LLC (Tallahassee): landowner, part of a land-banking group
- HJA Design Studios: planning consultant
Decision-makers
- St. Lucie County Planning and Zoning Commission: recommended against
- St. Lucie County Commission: never voted
- Commissioner Cathy Townsend: disclosed the withdrawal
Power
- Florida Power & Light: contemplated supplier, no contract
Promoters
- St. Lucie Economic Development Council: held the project under a codename and wrote the economic report
Still unknown
Open questions
- Whether the developer will resubmit under the new state rules.
- Any tenant, lender or power contract.
- Actual megawatts: only press reports cite 1 GW, no filing does.
- 2 unconfirmed county land records near the site: the buyer or location could not be tied to this campus.
Where this comes from
271 records from 24 documents
Drawn from news reports, public and commercial datasets, securities filings, business registries, satellite captures and state agency records, each kept with its date and source. The bar shows documents by type.
News report 16Dataset 6SEC filing 2Satellite 1State agency 1
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 (15)
- Jurisdiction: Unincorporated St. Lucie County; county BOCC holds land-use authority; state law preserves (does not preempt) local authority over large load customers“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 A
- Stated campus size: 1,000 MW“a proposed 1GW, 1,200-acre data center campus called Project Jarvis”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Nearest substation: REFERENCE: 1.85 km - FPL substation (230 kV) at 27.44463,-80.45093Measured on OpenStreetMap map data.
- Nearest power line of 345 kV or more: REFERENCE: 8.36 km - Fort Drum Sub FPL to Midway Sub FPL 500 kV lineMeasured on OpenStreetMap map data.
- Nearest power line of 138 kV: REFERENCE: 1.31 km - Emerson Sub FPL to Midway Sub FPL 230 kV line (nearest line in the 100-345 kV band)Measured on OpenStreetMap map data.
- Nearest gas pipeline: REFERENCE: 1.17 km - Florida Gas Transmission Mainline Loop Station 19-20 gas pipelineMeasured on OpenStreetMap map data.
- IT capacity: not stated“with up to 15 million square feet of buildings and a first phase of 1,000 megawatts of power”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Gov. DeSantis announced proposed AI / hyperscale data-center legislation (Dec 4, 2025), including empowering local governments to reject data centers - the state-level turn that preceded the withdrawal.“Today (Dec. 4th) I proposed new legislation on artificial intelligence and AI data centers to protect Floridians' privacy, security and quality of life, DeSantis said”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Interconnection status: none - the land-use application was withdrawn in February 2026 before any utility filing existed: no FPL interconnection request, study or service agreement was ever made or is public for Sentinel“the applicants behind a proposed 1GW, 1,200-acre data center campus called Project Jarvis are choosing to hold back and watch the legislative process play out.”News report · Feb. 2026 · grade C
- Sentinel Grove Technology Park (Project Jarvis) was withdrawn at the land-use stage: St. Lucie County Planning & Zoning voted 4-2 on Oct 16, 2025 to recommend against the required comprehensive-plan amendment, and the ap“News of the applicant's withdrawal came from St. Lucie County Commissioner Cathy Townsend, who told WPTV that the data center pulled out because they knew that there was going to be legislation coming out in Tallahassee.”News report · Feb. 2026 · grade C
- Utility: Florida Power & Light“The data center operator will also enter a 20-year contract at minimum with FPL to generate the 1 gigawatt, or 1 billion watts, of power it needs daily, the report said”News report · Nov. 2025 · grade C
- Power plan: grid“Construction permitting includes Florida Power & Light (FPL), the South Florida Water Management District and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, among others”News report · Nov. 2025 · grade C
- On-site power technology: not stated“Construction permitting includes Florida Power & Light (FPL), the South Florida Water Management District and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, among others”News report · Nov. 2025 · grade C
- Square feet: 15000000 sq ft“with up to 15 million square feet of buildings and a first phase of 1,000 megawatts of power”News report · Oct. 2025 · grade C
- Stated campus size: 1,000 MW“with up to 15 million square feet of buildings and a first phase of 1,000 megawatts of power”News report · Oct. 2025 · grade C
Money and contracts (22)
- finding no executed agreements: finding No executed agreement of any kind exists in the record: no ESA, interconnection agreement, development agreement, PILOT, incentive or host agreement was ever executed. The applicat“No vote has taken place before the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC), and no final decision has been made, according to county leadership”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Epic Estates 68 LLC (Tallahassee land-banking vehicle) bought the 1,218-acre former citrus grove for $15M - the land play preceded any public data-center plan by ~15 months.“The land is owned by Epic Estates 68 LLC, a Tallahassee firm that bought it for $15 million in July 2024”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- County declassified the plans and the project was unveiled at the P&Z hearing; until then it existed only as the EDC codename Project Jarvis under NDA.“Included in the list is Project Jarvis, which has been identified as Sentinel Grove Technology Park, a $13.5 billion, 15 million-square-foot data center proposed on Orange Avenue”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Timberline-linked donors gave more than $230,000 to Florida politicians in the 2026 cycle, including $70,000 bundled from nearly two dozen Timberline-connected people/entities to Byron Donalds on a single day, at least $“Records show that Byron Donalds has raised $70,000 from nearly two dozen people and corporate entities connected to Timberline”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Portfolio context only (not a campus agreement): the FPL Large Load Contract Services (LLCS) tariff structure the EDC report contemplated for this campus was the subject of FPL rate testimony by VP Tiffany C. Cohen on Fe“according to testimony given by FPL vice president of rate and revenue strategy Tiffany C. Cohen Feb. 28”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Address: East side of Minute Maid Road, approx. 2,600 ft north of Orange Avenue (SR 68), south and east of the SFWMD C-25 Canal, unincorporated St. Lucie County outside Fort Pierce“located on the east side of Minute Maid Road, extending approximately 2,600 feet north of Orange Avenue, and south and east of the South Florida Water Management District's C-25 Canal”News report · Feb. 2026 · grade C
- non disclosure arrangement: status change SB 484 (2026) removed large-scale data center information from extended economic-development confidentiality and added fines for agency NDAs, effective Jul 1, 2026“SB 484 would require data center developers to shoulder the cost of utility upgrades; fine government agencies that enter into non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)”News report · Feb. 2026 · grade C
- Stated capital cost: 13500000000 USD“The proposed $13.5 billion, 1,218-acre data center - known as Sentinel Grove Technology Park”News report · Jan. 2026 · grade C
- Building height ft: 60 ft“Their proposal would allow up to 15 million square feet of buildings, each up to 60 feet tall”News report · Jan. 2026 · grade C
- Incentives: not stated“No vote has taken place before the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC), and no final decision has been made, according to county leadership”News report · Jan. 2026 · grade C
- Financing: not stated“The center, which will focus on artificial intelligence model training, will have its construction fully financed with private capital, the report said”News report · Nov. 2025 · grade C
- Jobs claimed: 370 full-time jobs plus 2,000 remote jobs (EDC report)“Sentinel Grove is touted to generate approximately 370 full-time jobs; 2,000 remote jobs; and around $207 million in annual county revenue, according to a report compiled by the St. Lucie Economic Development Council”News report · Nov. 2025 · grade C
- power supply contemplated not executed: scope Supply of 1,000 MW for the campus MW“The data center operator will also enter a 20-year contract at minimum with FPL to generate the 1 gigawatt, or 1 billion watts, of power it needs daily, the report said”News report · Nov. 2025 · grade C
- power supply contemplated not executed: term Minimum 20-year contract term years“The data center operator will also enter a 20-year contract at minimum with FPL to generate the 1 gigawatt, or 1 billion watts, of power it needs daily, the report said”News report · Nov. 2025 · grade C
- power supply contemplated not executed: termination Cancellation on two years advance notice years“Contract cancellations must be given two years in advance”News report · Nov. 2025 · grade C
- power supply contemplated not executed: cost responsibility FPL to cover all incremental costs; funding via Large Load Contract Services (LLCS) tariffs; generation associated with the Sunbreak Farms area“FPL funding would come from tariffs imposed by the Large Load Contract Services (LLCS) initiative with power generated near Sunbreak Farms further out west”News report · Nov. 2025 · grade C
- Square feet: 20000000 sq ft“Originally, it would have been 20 million square feet”News report · Oct. 2025 · grade C
- Tenants: not stated“The property developer also said there was no tenant at the time”News report · Oct. 2025 · grade C
- Tenant status: not stated“Timberline Real Estate Partners, which filed the request with HJA Design Studios, said it had no tenant”News report · Oct. 2025 · grade C
- non disclosure arrangement: scope Project identity held confidential under the codename Project Jarvis until the county declassified the plans in Oct 2025“The St. Lucie Economic Development Council referred to the center as Project Jarvis before its unveiling”News report · Oct. 2025 · grade C
- Land price: 15000000 USD“The land is owned by Epic Estates 68 LLC, a Tallahassee firm that bought it for $15 million in July 2024”News report · July 2024 · grade C
- Land control date: July 2024“The land is owned by Epic Estates 68 LLC, a Tallahassee firm that bought it for $15 million in July 2024”News report · July 2024 · grade C
Permits and government (13)
- SB 484 took effect: s.163.326 preserves local land-use authority over large load customers; s.366.043 requires PSC large-load tariffs ensuring each large load customer bears its full cost of service (50 MW threshold); s.“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 · Oct. 2026 · grade A
- Project status: Withdrawn - applicant pulled the land-use application in February 2026 after the St. Lucie County Planning and Zoning Commission voted 4-2 on Oct. 16, 2025 to recommend against the required land-use change;“The one large data center proposed in St”Dataset · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- land use amendment and rezoning: Recommended AGAINST 4-2 by the P&Z on Oct 16, 2025; withdrawn by the applicant in Feb 2026 before any BOCC hearing; never approved“The county's Planning and Zoning Commission voted 4-2 on October 16, 2025 to recommend against the land-use change it needed”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- environmental resource and consumptive use permit: Never applied for in any source checked; hearing coverage cites stormwater runoff without SFWMD permits. SB 484 (2026) s.373.262 now sets a large-scale data center CUP s“9 million gallons of stormwater runoff without permits from South Florida Water Management District”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- section 404 wetlands: Listed among the construction permitting agencies in the EDC report; no application or public notice found“Construction permitting includes Florida Power & Light (FPL), the South Florida Water Management District and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, among others”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- large load service request: No interconnection request, ESA or campus-specific PSC filing in any source checked; supply was contemplated only under FPL's Large Load Contract Services framework as described in the EDC rep“FPL funding would come from tariffs imposed by the Large Load Contract Services (LLCS) initiative with power generated near Sunbreak Farms further out west”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Do not merge them into Sentinel Grove.“Fort Pierce Planning Board tabled a request to rezone 200 acres on Midway Road just north and west of I-95”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- St. Lucie County Board of County Commissioners: Sentinel Grove land-use amendment - adoption hearing (never held)“No vote has taken place before the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC), and no final decision has been made, according to county leadership”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Development stage: CANCELLED as filed - St. Lucie County P&Z voted 4-2 on Oct 16, 2025 to recommend AGAINST the land-use change; the applicant withdrew in Feb 2026 ahead of Florida SB 484 (enacted Jul 1, 2026); revival r“The county's Planning and Zoning Commission voted 4-2 on October 16, 2025 to recommend against the land-use change it needed”Dataset · Feb. 2026 · grade C
- Land use status: AG-5 agricultural zoning retained; requested change to a Special District never approved; application withdrawn Feb 2026“Developers Timberline Real Estate Partners seek to rezone approximately 1,200 acres of former citrus grove land from Agricultural-5 to Special District”News report · Feb. 2026 · grade C
- Announced: Oct. 2025“the St. Lucie County planning and zoning commission last week voted 4-2 to recommend against approving an amendment to the area’s comprehensive plans that would allow the development of the Sentinel Grove Technology Park”News report · Oct. 2025 · grade C
- Aliases: Project Jarvis“The St. Lucie Economic Development Council referred to the center as Project Jarvis before its unveiling”News report · Oct. 2025 · grade C
- St. Lucie County Planning & Zoning Commission: Sentinel Grove Technology Park - comprehensive-plan (land-use) amendment and rezoning, Agricultural-5 to Special District, 1,218.4 acres, up to 15M sq ft data center campus“The county's Planning and Zoning Commission voted 4-2 on October 16, 2025 to recommend against the land-use change it needed”News report · Oct. 2025 · grade C
Site and other (18)
- County code: 12111“FCC census block API: campus anchor -> St; Lucie County FL 12111; on-site facilities (same tract, none built) -> St; Lucie County; Lucie County 12111.”Dataset · Oct. 2026 · grade B
- Construction stage: not stated“It faced opposition from nearby rural landowners and was withdrawn indefinitely”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Stage: withdrawn“It faced opposition from nearby rural landowners and was withdrawn indefinitely”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Original target date: not stated“County officials confirmed with Sunland News the developer has not indicated when they will resubmit their application”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Current target date: not stated“County officials confirmed with Sunland News the developer has not indicated when they will resubmit their application”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Commissioner Townsend on her podcast Townsend Unplugged: the data center is not coming to St. Lucie County; the developer pulled it because it lacked commission support.“The data center is not coming to St. Lucie County, Commissioner Cathy Townsend said Jan. 11 in the inaugural YouTube video of her podcast”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- County told the developer it is studying peer data centers (Loudoun County, VA - where data-center tax revenue is ~38 percent of property tax revenue) before entertaining any resubmission; no resubmission timeline was gi“We've told them we are looking to visit and find out more information from other data centers in other states, the administrator said”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Applicant withdrew the land-use application ahead of Florida data-center legislation (SB 482 / SB 484), per Commissioner Townsend to WPTV; the developer did not comment.“Townsend said the developer of Sentinel Grove is waiting to see what happens in Tallahassee before officially cutting ties with the project”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- TCPalm: no developer activity since the withdrawal; project on hold for months per county records. Townsend's understanding was that the developer planned to return to the BOCC once the bill was signed - no return had oc“My understanding was that once the bill was signed, they planned to return to the BOCC to seek approval, Townsend said”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- TCPalm state data-center map: Sentinel Grove withdrawn indefinitely. St. Lucie County has adopted no moratorium (spokesperson Erick Gill) and Townsend opposes a blanket moratorium - the door is formally open, but nothing“St. Lucie County commissioners have provided no policy direction on a data center moratorium, county spokesperson Erick Gill said”News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
- Phases: 3“Patty Tobin of HJ Design Studio, who spoke about the project to the commission, explaining how the center would be built in three phases”News report · Jan. 2026 · grade C
- Water use stated: not stated“We anticipate a very large decrease in water consumption. The technology today is using a fraction of existing data centers”News report · Jan. 2026 · grade C
- Owner companies: Epic Estates 68 LLC“Sentinel Grove would be built on approximately 1,218.4 acres of vacant agricultural land split across three plats owned by Epic Estates 68, LLC. of Tallahassee, according to the St. Lucie Property Appraiser database”News report · Nov. 2025 · grade C
- Acres: 1218.4 acres“Sentinel Grove would be built on approximately 1,218.4 acres of vacant agricultural land split across three plats owned by Epic Estates 68, LLC. of Tallahassee, according to the St. Lucie Property Appraiser database”News report · Nov. 2025 · grade C
- Name: Sentinel Grove Technology Park“The one large data center proposed in St. Lucie County, Sentinel Grove Technology Park, also called Project Jarvis, has been withdrawn”News report · Oct. 2025 · grade C
- Developer: Timberline Real Estate Partners“Timberline Real Estate Partners, which filed the request with HJA Design Studios, said it had no tenant”News report · Oct. 2025 · grade C
- Announced: Oct. 16, 2025“The project has been dormant since it was first proposed Oct. 16”News report · Oct. 2025 · grade C
- Opposition: Rural landowners and residents near Orange Avenue / Minute Maid Road“That's the last agricultural area we have left in St. Lucie County, please don't destroy it”News report · Oct. 2025 · grade C
Imagery and records: Aerial imagery: local aerial photography via Esri World Imagery Wayback.