Databridge Sites Silver Spring

The closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.

• Did a Maine lobsterman turn down a $15 million offer to build a data center on his Down East property? | Fact brief

  Portland Press Herald - Maine Sunday Telegram· Sep 8, 2026
• Middlesex Township supervisors approve data center measures after heated meeting

  WGAL· Sep 2, 2026
• Mervin Raudabaugh rejects $15.7M data center offer, preserves Pennsylvania farmland

  eciks.org· Aug 31, 2026
• 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer turns down $15.7 million data-centre offer, takes $1.9 million to keep his

  The Economic Times· Aug 30, 2026
• 86-Year-Old Farmer Rejected $15.7M To Keep His Land From Becoming A Data Center

  Men's Journal· Aug 29, 2026
• At 86, a Pennsylvania farmer turned down more than $15 million from data-center developers and accepted $1

  The Economic Times· Aug 19, 2026

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

No reported violations as of last sync.

The nearest public school, Galway Elementary in Silver Spring, is 1.0 mi from this site (733 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.