Facility would be located in suburb of Bloomfield.
Real estate firm Atlas Capital Group may develop a one-million-square-foot data center in Connecticut.
The potential facility, which would offer 900,000 sq ft (84,000 sqm) of space, and a 127,000 sq ft (12,000 sqm) substation, would be built on a 44-acre land parcel located at 132 Griffin Road North in the suburb of Bloomfield, which is north of Hartford.
The plan first became known at a meeting held on June 26 by the Town Plan and Zoning Commission, where Atlas Capital gave an “informal presentation regarding a potential development of a data center.” This was followed by a press release on July 3.
The land parcel, which was a former tobacco field, is currently vacant.
Director of planning and zoning in Bloomfield, Jonathan Colman, told Greenwich Time that the proposal was still in the early conceptual stage. He added: “One of the questions we want to answer is what the future reuse for this building will be when the technology becomes obsolete.”
It is unclear whether the New York-based Atlas Capital will be the end user. The firm’s existing properties consist of residential, office, and mixed-use developments, as well as the Los Angeles Times Printing Plant.
According to Datacentermap, there are 59 data centers in Connecticut, with the majority of facilities being concentrated in Norwich.