Lancaster AI Hub
Municipal water use is capped at 20,000 gallons a day per campus.
This summary uses the city’s draft. A signed copy has not been verified.
Section 3.4, page 9Water
What water does a project use, and what happens during a shortage?
Questions for the framework
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Contribute to this theme- Is the limit daily or annual, potable or reclaimed?
- Who gets priority during drought?
- Who measures use and publishes the results?
Terms from the agreements
Hermantown Data Center
Lists potable-water demand up to 50,000 gallons daily, with temporary construction exceptions. During shortages, healthcare, public services and residential areas take priority.
This summary uses a draft. A signed copy has not been verified.
Section 3.2 and 4.18(a), page 7J5 development & utilities
During shortages, public health and safety take priority, including residential users, public services and health care. The agreement otherwise protects the project’s allocation and anticipates irrigation restrictions before industrial curtailment.
City reports executed; scanned counterpart/addendum review pending.
Section 5(a), page 5St. Louis Armory Data Center
The permit conditions call for air-cooled, closed-loop cooling. Before a building permit, the developer must enter a water agreement covering applicable fees, an impact study and any required remediation.
The city has approved a permit. A signed community benefits agreement has not been verified.
Section Water, page 2Meta Beaver Dam
The developer pays up to $10 million for the agreed public improvements, including water work. The city must publicly bid the work; costs above that cap fall to the city. The developer also grants a corridor up to 30 feet wide for underground water and wastewater infrastructure.
The public copy is effective December 9, 2024. City signatures appear on PDF page 20; Degas’s signature and attorney authentication appear on page 21.
Section 1; 2(b)–(d); 7(i), page 4Project Vanderbilt
Stormwater must receive pretreatment to capture trash, oil and sediment before it leaves the site. Wetland buffers and city stormwater standards apply.
The packet contains two instruments with blank signature/date fields. Tree mitigation differs: the development contract states 59 trees/$29,500; the final planned development exhibit states 58 trees/$29,000.
Section Final planned development agreement, Exhibit A, items 11–15, page 44Project Blue
The memorandum calls for air cooling with closed-loop recirculation and an approved source for domestic water.
Approved; public copy county signature blank.
Section 1, page 5Frye Road Data Center
The expansion cannot use water-based cooling. Existing evaporative systems must be replaced before even temporary occupancy of the expansion.
Proposed agenda copy with blank signatures.
Section 2.1–2.2, page 2Peanut Data Center
Capacity reductions do not return paid capital-recovery charges. Water service may be curtailed for law or essential public health, safety and welfare despite continuity protections.
Government copy; handwritten date/signatures pending.
Section 2 and 7, page 2Proctors Creek Water Reuse Study
Evaluates using treated wastewater from Proctors Creek for industrial cooling, including whether the outfall can handle the flows and where cooling-water blowdown could return. The proposed arrangement could reallocate 1–6 million gallons a day of existing capacity to other projects, but utility approval, hydraulic studies and a separate agreement are required.
Signed counterparts are dated December 18 and 19, 2025 on PDF pages 15 and 6. Exhibits A, B and C appear as title-only pages in this public copy.
Section Recitals A–H, page 1SSDC1 Sulphur Springs
The city must provide access to an 18-inch water main and at least a 12-inch sewer main. This provision specifies connections, not a water-use limit.
Registry reports effective May 9 2025; scan review pending.
Section 3.1.7.2–3.1.7.3, page 9Microsoft Quincy Water Reuse
The proposed agreement supplies different water types to different facilities, including reuse water and potable water. It also allows additional potable water when reuse supplies cannot meet industrial needs. The document does not establish a zero-potable-water requirement.
Redline including addenda; clean signed copy needed.
Section 7.2–7.4, page 16CRG Festus
The developer funds project-related water and sewer infrastructure, subject to agreed scope and cost. A later water-infrastructure plan must establish supply volumes and responsibilities. Private wells are prohibited, but public wells may serve the project.
Posted ordinance and agreement; signature/date review pending.
Section I.F, page 9Meta DeKalb
The amendment corrects the original supply exhibit. Its three tiers allow peak daily volumes of 400,000, 800,000 and 1.2 million gallons, with corresponding peak monthly volumes of 3.2 million, 6.4 million and 9.6 million gallons. These are service allowances, not measured consumption.
Approval recorded; original agreement and counterpart review pending; repeat fetch redirect loop, retrieval pending.
Section 2, page 3Goldin DeKalb
The city reserves capacity for 817,000 gallons a day at the owner’s expense. It need not keep that reservation if the developer misses the June 2027 site-work and June 2028 first-phase building-permit deadlines.
City, owner and developer signatures visually verified across the separate counterpart pages 10–11. The original agreement is recorded as document 2023007068.
Section Section 4, amended Section 8.2, page 5Microsoft Goodyear
Full build-out allows ten buildings, with no more than three using evaporative cooling. The water calculation uses a 362.60 acre-foot annual industrial right. Demand above that amount triggers a water-resource fee; peaks above 1.6 million gallons per day trigger additional production charges.
The city agenda includes the full fourth amendment as Exhibit 1 to Resolution 2023-2323. Its signature fields are blank; the operative text and engineering exhibits have been reviewed.
Section 4–5 and 6.6, page 9Project Stonebridge
The state letter says approval depended on a consumptive-use permit and that the project required further permitting. This is the state’s account of the proposal, not extracted contract language.
This source is the Florida commerce secretary’s April 15, 2026 letter, not the development agreement. Later permit outcomes have not been verified.
Section State letter, page 1QTS Digital Gateway North
The historical proffers specify air or closed-loop cooling, or other new technology, and prohibit groundwater and surface-water withdrawals and discharges for cooling.
The packet includes proposed proffers and revisions. The county confirms that the rezoning approvals are void; these should not be treated as active project protections.
Section Proffer 39, page 127Related agreements and records
Open each record for its source, status and missing documents.
Lancaster AI Hub
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Draft terms covering water use, clean energy, community funding and local hiring.
View agreementWurldwide incentive agreement
El Paso, Texas
City incentives for the Wurldwide project, with conditions for receiving grants.
View agreementHermantown Data Center
Hermantown, Minnesota
Draft terms covering water supply, road improvements and infrastructure costs.
View agreementJ5 development & utilities
Piqua, Ohio
Development, water, tax-increment and school-compensation agreements for one project.
View agreementSt. Louis Armory Data Center
St. Louis, Missouri
City permit conditions and announced community-benefit terms for the Armory site.
View agreementProject Vanderbilt
Eagan, Minnesota
Renovation of an existing data center, with developer-funded infrastructure, stormwater safeguards and tree mitigation.
View agreementProject Blue
Pima County, Arizona
Cooling requirements, renewable-energy commitments and phase-based community donations.
View agreementFrye Road Data Center
Chandler, Arizona
Air-cooling requirements and enforceable sound rules for an existing facility’s expansion.
View agreementPeanut Data Center
Chesterfield County, Virginia
Fixed equipment taxes, utility capacity charges and water-service conditions.
View agreementSSDC1 Sulphur Springs
Sulphur Springs, Texas
A registered land and incentive agreement for phased data center development.
View agreementMicrosoft Quincy Water Reuse
Quincy, Washington
Water supply, treatment and financing responsibilities in a municipal reuse partnership.
View agreementCRG Festus
Festus, Missouri
Related infrastructure and preliminary-funding agreements for one project.
View agreementMeta DeKalb
DeKalb, Illinois
A water-service amendment for Meta’s DeKalb campus.
View agreementGoldin DeKalb
DeKalb, Illinois
A data center amendment reserves water capacity, funds utility extensions and discounts electricity tax subject to an annual minimum.
View agreementMicrosoft Goodyear
Goodyear, Arizona
Water and utility responsibilities in a later amendment to Microsoft’s infrastructure agreement.
View agreementProject Stonebridge
Fort Meade, Florida
An approval record for a proposed campus, with unresolved permitting requirements.
View agreementQTS Digital Gateway North
Prince William County, Virginia
Historical cooling and noise commitments from a rezoning that has since been voided.
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