Rhode Island index · last changed 14 September 2026
Rhode Island data centers: what the public record shows.
No reviewed records are published yet. This does not mean there are no data centers in Rhode Island; it means the available evidence has not cleared publication.
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Map, listings and checked facts.
Start with 1 licensed source lead, then inspect the separate public-evidence layer below. Licensed rows are not independently verified and are not a statewide census.
Rhode Island map
Reported locations in Rhode Island
1 licensed rows · 1 source locality · 1 map target
Browse 1 mapped area as links
Map sources and method
The state outline is adapted from the U.S. Census Bureau 2025 cartographic boundary file. Facility coordinates are adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Outline and markers use one geographic projection before any explicitly disclosed readability offset. Exact singleton source anchors are never moved. A one-kilometre boundary tolerance prevents the simplified 1:20,000,000 outline from hiding legitimate border-area source points; farther conflicts are disclosed, not clamped. DataCenterData groups source-reported city coordinates only within a bounded map radius; the outline does not validate a facility record.
Browse all 1 rows below. Licensed rows are not independently verified and remain separate from the checked public-evidence layer.
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Rhode Island evidence at a glance
Nothing published yet, on purpose
Selected public evidence, not a statewide census. Each row shows whether it is independently source-linked, attributed, or unresolved; licensed leads remain separate.
- Published project / campus
- 0
- Published facility / building
- 0
- Attributed or unresolved rows
- 0
- Licensed directory leads
- 1 not independently verified
- Capacity boundary stated
- 0 of 0 published DataCenterData rows
- Review timing
- Audit through 14 September 2026 · next 13 December 2026
the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep, so program-level and award-level incentive records were not systematically checked.
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Where the records were checked
Statewide audit pending
Nothing published yet, on purpose
Nothing published here does not mean there are no data centers in the state. The reason and the date we look again are below.
No independently source-linked record is published yet. The reviewed source roster and current research gaps are shown below.
State research audit window ended 14 September 2026. Individual records and claims below show their own evidence dates and may be newer.
Next scheduled review: 13 December 2026.
0 independently source-linked project/campus records; 0 independently source-linked facility/building records; 0 attributed or unresolved rows. These counts use different units and must not be added together.
Source families checked, selected records and remaining gaps
These notes name selected records, say which kinds of public evidence were checked and show what remains missing. They do not add anything to the published counts.
- economic development incentives — Partly checked
- the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep, so program-level and award-level incentive records were not systematically checked.
- Qualified Jobs and Rebuild RI award lists not reviewed for any data center recipient.
Selected records
- Rhode Island Commerce · Rhode Island Commerce Corporation
- utility commission large load — Partly checked
- A named, site-specific commission docket, tariff, special contract, interconnection request or ISO-NE record tying a Rhode Island location to data-center use remains missing.
- The Rhode Island Energy response and ISO-NE forecast are system-level screening records; they do not establish a project or prove statewide absence.
Selected records
- Rhode Island PUC commission dockets · Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission
- RIPUC Docket 25-45-GE, Rhode Island Energy responses to PUC Set 9 (public) · Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission
- environmental construction permits — Partly checked
- No air permit search performed; generator permits for any Rhode Island data center remain unchecked.
- No stormwater construction general permit notices reviewed for the Smithfield site.
Selected records
- RIDEM Air Quality · Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management
- RIDEM preconstruction air permits · Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management
- municipal planning assessor gis — Checked
- PLN-26-10 / OpenGov application body stating whether Smithfield Corporate Complex proposes data-center use was not independently readable.
- September 2, 2026 Board of Appeals minutes for case 26-011 are not on file.
- No Providence use, permit, or occupancy record naming a data center was opened.
Selected records
- Town of Smithfield 2026 meeting agendas page (Internet Archive capture 2026-08-14) · Town of Smithfield
- Town of Smithfield planning board meeting materials / recent applications (Internet Archive capture 2026-08-14) · Town of Smithfield
- Town of Smithfield ordinances and charter index (Internet Archive capture 2026-08-14) · Town of Smithfield
- tax abatement development agreements — Partly checked
- No Smithfield tax stabilization agreement or PILOT record reviewed; the town site is blocked.
- no broad discovery sweep was completed to find agreement coverage.
Selected records
- Rhode Island Commerce tax credits · Rhode Island Commerce Corporation
- operator disclosures — Partly checked
- No operator page was retrieved for the two Providence colocation listings, so their operator names are unverified and possibly legacy brands.
- No hyperscaler location pages checked for Rhode Island; no broad discovery sweep was completed.
- No offshore-wind-linked data center proposal was searched for beyond Quonset.
Selected records
- Quonset Development Corporation · Quonset Development Corporation
- Quonset Development Corporation site search: 'data center' · Quonset Development Corporation
- open datasets directories — Partly checked
- Data Center Map, datacenters.com, Baxtel and PeeringDB not consulted for Rhode Island (two of these were unavailable during review earlier in the current review).
- The directory's own count (10) exceeds what it displays, so operating facilities are likely missing.
Selected records
- Compute Atlas facilities.json snapshot 71df145 (state extract) · Compute Atlas
- Rhode Island Data Center Location Map · Cloud and Colocation
- historical closures withdrawals names — Partly checked
- No archived-page or corporate-history sweep for older Rhode Island facilities.
- Whether the Smithfield application survives the ordinance is unresolved in all retrieved sources.
Selected records
- Smithfield puts the brakes on potential data center · Valley Breeze
- news and other discovery — Checked
- Rhode Island Current and ecoRI News coverage (noted as blocked in the Compute Atlas record) was not attempted.
Selected records