# Project Washington (Starwood Digital Ventures)

> Proposed: a 1200 MW data center in New Castle County, Delaware, from the Kapwork Grow tracker (3 sources). Sources and dates on every fact.

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Markdown: https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/project-washington-starwood-digital-ventures-de-dc_061756ca6af7.md  
Updated: Nov 3, 2026  
Publisher: Kapwork Grow, a free directory of public records

Starwood Digital Ventures has proposed a 1200 MW data center in New Castle County, Delaware (proposed). 3 sources report this facility in the Kapwork Grow tracker. (Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here, Compute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0), Server Country project record (CC BY 4.0), Public Evidence Project: Permit from Delaware DNREC, as of Nov 2, 2026)

## Facts

- **Operator:** Starwood Digital Ventures (Compute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0), Server Country project record (CC BY 4.0), as of Sep 24, 2026)
- **Stage:** Proposed (Compute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0), Server Country project record (CC BY 4.0), as of Sep 24, 2026)
- **Reported capacity:** 1200 MW (Compute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0), Server Country project record (CC BY 4.0), as of Sep 24, 2026)
- **Reported building area:** 6,000,000 sq ft (Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here, as of Nov 2, 2026)
- **Site area:** 580 acres (Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here, as of Nov 2, 2026)
- **Reported jobs:** 700 (Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here, as of Nov 2, 2026)
- **Announced:** 2025-07 (Compute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0), as of Jul 6, 2026)
- **Construction start reported:** 2026 (Server Country project record (CC BY 4.0), as of Sep 24, 2026)
- **Expected completion:** 2028 (Server Country project record (CC BY 4.0), as of Sep 24, 2026)
- **City:** Delaware City (Compute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0), Server Country project record (CC BY 4.0), Public Evidence Project: Permit from Delaware DNREC, as of Sep 24, 2026)
- **County:** New Castle (Compute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0), Server Country project record (CC BY 4.0), Public Evidence Project: Permit from Delaware DNREC, as of Sep 24, 2026)
- **State:** Delaware (Compute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0), Server Country project record (CC BY 4.0), Public Evidence Project: Permit from Delaware DNREC, as of Sep 24, 2026)
- **Location precision:** Site footprint confirmed (Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here, as of Nov 2, 2026)
- **Community response:** Local opposition reported (Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here, as of Nov 2, 2026)
- **Utility:** Delmarva Power & Light (Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here, as of Nov 2, 2026)
- **Power source:** Grid power (Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here, as of Nov 2, 2026)
- **Cooling:** Closed loop (Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here, as of Nov 2, 2026)
- **AI workload:** Mixed use, AI among other workloads (Compute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0), as of Jul 6, 2026)
- **Facility type:** Enterprise (Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here, as of Nov 2, 2026)
- **Incentives reported:** Expedited Permitting (Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here, as of Nov 2, 2026)
- **Government records on file:** 1 (Public Evidence Project: Permit from Delaware DNREC, as of Aug 6, 2026)

## What each source reports

| Dataset | Reported name | Reported status | Reported MW |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Compute Atlas | Project Washington (Starwood Digital Ventures) | Proposed | 1200 MW |
| Server Country | Project Washington | Proposed | 1200 MW |

## Questions this page answers

### Is Project Washington (Starwood Digital Ventures) under construction?

No permit record shows it yet, so this page prints it as announced. Compute Atlas (Jul 6, 2026) and Server Country (Sep 24, 2026) report it as proposed.

### Who is building Project Washington (Starwood Digital Ventures)?

Starwood Digital Ventures is the operator. No public record names the general contractor yet. It shows here the day one does.

### When is Project Washington (Starwood Digital Ventures) expected to finish?

Server Country reports expected completion in 2028. That is a reported target, not a schedule.

### Which carriers serve Project Washington (Starwood Digital Ventures)?

No public record names them yet. They show here when a filing does.

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## Latest updates

- [Expected completion reported](https://servercountry.org/data/projects/). Reported for 2028.
- [Construction start reported](https://servercountry.org/data/projects/). Reported for 2026.
- [Reported as announced](https://spotlightdelaware.org/2026/02/04/delaware-city-data-center-faces-major-setback-after-environmental-denial/). Reported for 2025-07.
- [Reported as announced](https://servercountry.org/data/projects/). Reported for 2024.

## Related records

- [Project Tamarack](https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/project-tamarack-wv-dc_4585dd4da00a): Same operator
- [St. Georges Business Park & Lighthouse Farms](https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/st-georges-business-park-lighthouse-farms-de-dc_2a36bd79aacb): Same state
- [St. Georges Business Park Data Center](https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/st-georges-business-park-data-center-de-dc_fc692e8fc29f): Same state
- [White Clay Center Industrial Park Data Center](https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/white-clay-center-industrial-park-data-center-de-dc_0e4d30720899): Same state
- [White Clay Corporate Center Data Center Redevelopment](https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/white-clay-corporate-center-data-center-redevelopment-de-dc_80d881d6ef24): Same state

## What this record does not show

- This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-11-02. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
- Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0) · Server Country, https://servercountry.org/data/ (CC BY 4.0) · Public Evidence Project, U.S. Data Center Public Records Dataset, https://publicevidence.org/data/national-data-center-public-records (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
- An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
- Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.

## Sources

- [Compute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0)](https://spotlightdelaware.org/2026/02/04/delaware-city-data-center-faces-major-setback-after-environmental-denial/) · as of Jul 6, 2026 · record starwood-digital-project-washington-de
- [Spotlight Delaware (cited by Compute Atlas)](https://spotlightdelaware.org/2026/02/04/delaware-city-data-center-faces-major-setback-after-environmental-denial/) · as of Jul 6, 2026
- [Delaware Public Media (cited by Compute Atlas)](https://www.delawarepublic.org/politics-government/2026-03-24/starwood-digital-ventures-makes-its-case-to-overturn-coastal-zone-ruling-against-its-data-center-plan) · as of Jul 6, 2026
- [Delaware DNREC (cited by Compute Atlas)](https://dnrec.delaware.gov/public-notices/cce20260043/) · as of Jul 6, 2026
- [Spotlight Delaware (cited by Compute Atlas)](https://spotlightdelaware.org/2026/03/26/delaware-city-data-center-environmental-denial-upheld-by-state-board/) · as of Jul 6, 2026
- [DataCenterDynamics (cited by Compute Atlas)](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/starwood-files-to-develop-12gw-11-building-data-center-campus-in-delaware/) · as of Jul 6, 2026
- [WHYY (cited by Compute Atlas)](https://whyy.org/articles/data-centers-water-usage/) · as of Jul 6, 2026
- [Server Country project record (CC BY 4.0)](https://servercountry.org/data/projects/) · as of Sep 24, 2026 · record 0086
- [Public Evidence Project: Permit from Delaware DNREC](https://dnrec.delaware.gov/public-notices/cce20260043/) · as of Aug 6, 2026 · record source-starwood-digital-project-washington-de
- [Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here](https://kapwork.com/app/grow/datacenters/projects/project-washington-starwood-digital-ventures-de) · as of Nov 2, 2026 · record 6697310120695

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## Cite this page

Kapwork Grow, "Project Washington (Starwood Digital Ventures)", https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/project-washington-starwood-digital-ventures-de-dc_061756ca6af7, materially updated Nov 3, 2026.
