Data Centers Atlas: Maine

Weekly data center brief: Maine

Week of: October 26, 2026

Research through: October 29, 2026

Source reviews and additions to the Atlas collection. Review dates do not establish openings or physical events. Scheduled dates are not outcomes.

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Public concern on the record: Loring LiquidCool Data Center (Green 4 Maine Campus)

Residents raised potential utility rate and environmental concerns about the Loring computing proposal in testimony hosted by the Maine Legislature. The same writer suggested using Loring as a policy case study. These are attributed public comments rather than State engineering findings, measured effects, an enacted exception or commissioned computing.

Record status: unknown. The original testimony explicitly names Loring LiquidCool and discusses potential local utility and environmental effects. The general policy proposal, third party engineering descriptions and suggested exception are not independently established legal outcomes or measured project impacts. No current concern disposition is verified.

Event date: March 11, 2026

Source publication date: Not established

Disposition date: Not established

Concern sources checked: October 24, 2026

The document bears March 11, 2026 and a resubmission heading for LD713 with earlier LD307 wording. This is the printed testimony date; the exact original submission and actual hearing day are not independently established. The original dated document establishes its printed review or testimony day without independently establishing first publication. Archive paths, wrapper timestamps and retrieval dates do not become publication or opening dates.

Raised or recorded by Residents.

Maine Legislature hosted original residents testimony

Counts describe attributed documentation, not harm or severity. Allegations, procedural outcomes and published replies retain their separate scope.

Public concern on the record: Wiscasset Data Center (Old Ferry Road Site)

Residents raised light, water, utility-cost, land-use and public-information concerns about Wiscasset's prospective data center in preliminary October 21, 2025 minutes. In a later August 24, 2026 interview, Wiscasset Newspaper reported the inquirer's statement that he was no longer pursuing the Old Ferry Road project. That later position is not a finding about actual environmental effects or a permanent prohibition on future proposals.

Record status: unknown. The current disposition of the documented concerns is unknown in this bounded review. Reported progress, future commitments, permit notices or historical project statements do not establish actual impacts, current compliance or resolution of all concerns.

Event date: October 21, 2025

Source publication date: Not established

Disposition date: Not established

Concern sources checked: October 18, 2026

The event is the exact dated original public record. The original record supplies a document or meeting date, but its first public posting date is unknown.

Raised or recorded by Residents.

Company statement reported by an outlet

Boundless Power stated through its representative, as reported by Wiscasset Newspaper, that he was no longer pursuing the Old Ferry Road inquiry and that discussions stopped before a formal proposal. The interview is a reported company position, not an independently reviewed municipal or court disposition.

Later news interview about the same OldFerryRoad inquiry provides relevant company position; it is not a direct reply to each October21 speaker.

Response publication date: August 24, 2026

Response sources checked: October 18, 2026

Counts describe attributed documentation, not harm or severity. Allegations, procedural outcomes and published replies retain their separate scope.