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Maine Becomes First US State to Pass Data Center Moratorium

The US’ first statewide data center moratorium has been approved by the Maine legislature. LD307 passed the House in early April and was approved by the Senate yesterday. Sponsored by Democrat Melanie Sachs, the bill imposes a temporary moratorium on state authorities accepting applications fo...

April 18, 2026

Maine

Maine Set to Become First State to Freeze Large Data Center Construction

Maine is on track to become the first U.S. state to impose a moratorium on large data center development. The state House of Representatives passed LD 307 last month, which would prohibit state and local governments from issuing permits for data centers with electrical loads of 20 MW or more u...

April 04, 2026

Maine

Proposed Moratorium Puts Planned Maine Data Center at Risk

Proposals to bring in a data center moratorium in Maine have threatened plans for a new campus in the Pine Tree State. The proposed bill, sponsored by Representative Melanie Sachs, includes a two-year moratorium on facilities above 20MW in the state while the impacts of data centers are studie...

February 20, 2026

Maine

Tier III AI Data Center Proposed for Lewiston Bates Mill in Maine

A new Tier III AI data center has been proposed in downtown Lewiston, Maine, in the currently vacant Bates Mill No.3. The proposed project, which is being developed by MillCompute LLC, would become the state’s second-largest AI data center.Lewiston City administrator Bryan Kaenrath said the pr...

December 16, 2025

Maine

Deep Edge completes expansion project in North Carolina data center

US data center operator Deep Edge announced the completion of the first phase of a multi-phase expansion planned in its facility at 701 East Trade Street in Charlotte, North Carolina. This expansion added 300kW capacity with 10 kW racks, redundant 2N power, and N+1 cooling infrastructure.A com...

October 07, 2023

CENTRA

AI Startup Uses Maine Air Force Data Facility for Quantum Computers

A Maine data center has been set up by an AI and quantum computing startup to house quantum computers. This week, Eternal Mind, Inc. conducted a grand opening ceremony at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone. WagmTV reports that the company occupies the former Air Force data center at...

May 18, 2023

Maine

Nautilus Signs Leases For Data Centers in Marseille, France and Los Angeles, California

Nautilus Data Technologies has announced that it has signed lease agreements for two new data centers in Los Angeles, California, and Marseille, France. Nautilus noted that its modular floating data center design would ensure that both data centers are developed in under 1 year. Both facilitie...

December 07, 2022

Nautilus Data Technologies

Deep Edge Realty Acquires a Carrier Hotel in Portland, Maine

Deep Edge Realty has announced the acquisition of a carrier hotel in Portland, Maine. The property is at 340 Cumberland Avenue. The selling company is Northland Enterprises. None of the companies revealed the terms of the transaction. The CEO and founder of Deep Edge Realty, Martin Hannigan...

February 18, 2022

CENTRA: 340 Cumberland (PMW01)

FirstLight Acquires Maine Fiber Company (PR)

ALBANY, NY – May 16, 2019 – FirstLight, a leading provider of fiber-optic data, Internet, data center, cloud and voice services to enterprise and carrier customers throughout the Northeast, announced today that it has acquired Maine Fiber Company (“MFC”). This transaction will further enhanc...

May 16, 2019

FirstLight Fiber

FirstLight to Acquire Finger Lakes Technologies Group (PR)

FirstLight Fiber (“FirstLight”), a leading fiber-optic bandwidth infrastructure services provider operating in the Northeast, today announced its intent to acquire Finger Lakes Technologies Group (“FLTG”), a subsidiary of Trumansburg Telephone Company (TTC). FLTG provides data, Internet and vo...

March 06, 2017

FirstLight Fiber

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