October 29, 2025
Fiber provider FirstLight has been selected to supply the fiber infrastructure for Green 4 Maine, a new data center park being developed on the site of a former US Air Force base in northern Maine.
The company will leverage its existing fiber network, which is already operational at the former Loring Air Force Base, to serve the development. Specific technical details regarding strand counts or bandwidth capacity were not disclosed in the announcement.
FirstLight described its network as physically diverse, low-latency, and high-capacity. The company’s existing fiber routes in Maine are primarily concentrated around the southern cities of Portland and Brunswick. The Loring site, located in Aroostook County, is in the state's northernmost region and borders Canada.
The Loring Air Force Base was originally constructed in 1947 and was decommissioned in 1994. It was subsequently converted into the Loring Commerce Center, a multi-use business and industrial park.
The fiber agreement follows a significant development announcement for the site last week. Green 4 Maine revealed that LiquidCool Data Center, a provider of liquid-cooled server solutions, has committed to building a 5-6MW data center on a 115,000 square foot parcel of land at the park.
Scott Hinkel, co-founder of Green 4 Maine, also indicated that an unnamed Silicon Valley-based company has expressed interest in developing a separate data center facility at the location. The property currently has access to 50MW of power, which is sourced from hydropower generation in the neighboring Canadian province of New Brunswick.
FirstLight operates an extensive 25,000-route-mile fiber network across six Northeastern US states: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. The company also provides services from 14 data centers within its footprint, including facilities in Albany, Boston, Burlington, and Manchester.
Founded as Tech Valley Communications in 1999, the firm was rebranded as FirstLight in 2013. It was later acquired by the investment firm Antin Infrastructure Partners in 2018.
SOURCE DCD
