Data centers in Delaware
Every site we track in Delaware, the jobs each one brings where a public source states them and the officials who represent them.
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Sites in Delaware
Sites with sourced job numbers first. Construction and permanent jobs are shown separately and never added together.
Counties with data center sites
What does this mean for your community?
Electric bills, water, housing and taxes in Data centers in Delaware: sites, jobs and officials: what we know, what remains unknown and who can answer. Statewide figures are context, not forecasts for any one community.
Will my electric bill rise?
No sourced figure yet for this state.
- In writing
- No modeled or measured estimate of the effect on household bills has been published for this state.
- What remains unknown
- The effect on household bills in most states.
- Who can answer
- Your state utility commission and your utility's rate cases.
- Ask
- Will data centers pay the full cost of the power lines and plants built for them? Where is that written in a rate order?
How much water will it use?
No sourced figure yet for this state.
- In writing
- No tracked project in this state has a published water figure in our sources.
- What remains unknown
- Water use for nearly every other project.
- Who can answer
- Your local water utility and county commission.
- Ask
- How much water will this project use each day? Where will it come from?
Will housing get more expensive?
No sourced figure yet for this state.
- In writing
- No public body we found tracks data center effects on local rents or land prices.
- What remains unknown
- Effects on local land prices, rents and housing.
- Who can answer
- Local land records and planning commission minutes.
- Ask
- Has anyone studied what this project will do to local rents and home prices?
What are taxpayers giving up?
No sourced figure yet for this state.
- In writing
- No signed incentive record for a project in this state is in our sources yet.
- What remains unknown
- The full public cost and the net tax revenue for most projects.
- Who can answer
- Your state economic development agency and county commission.
- Ask
- What tax breaks does this project get? What must it deliver in return?
What the agreements say
No signed incentive agreement for a project in this state is in our sources yet.
Your officials in Delaware
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