Jul 12, 2025 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Plans have been filed for a large gigawatt-scale data center campus in Delaware, filing two applications with New Castle County to develop a new campus that would total 1.2GW across 6 million sq ft (557,418 sqm). Project Washington would see 11 buildings developed on approximately 580 acres of vacant land between the Dupont Highway, Governor Lea Road, and River Road in New Castle, a city located on the Delaware River, approximately seven miles south of Wilmington and 35 miles southwest of Philadelphia.
The first phase would include six 500,000-square-foot (46,452 sqm), two-story buildings for a total of about 3 million square feet; the second phase would see two 500,000-square-foot, two-story buildings and three 700,000-square-foot (65,032 sqm), two-story buildings developed, totaling around 3.1 million square feet.
"Data centers are one of the hottest project trends across the US right now," Susan Colby, a spokesperson for the Delaware Prosperity Partnership, the state's economic development arm, told BJ. "Given Delaware’s tax structure and its other favorable features, our state would be a highly competitive location for almost any company looking to establish a data center."
