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Fort Meade, Florida

Fort Meade, Florida is located in Polk County, approximately 100 miles south of the major data center hub in the Tampa Bay area, which has become an increasingly important region for data center development in the southeastern United States.

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April 15, 2026

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Build Your Own Power Plant or Lose Your Place in Line

Fort Meade, Florida, just approved a 1.2 GW hyperscale data center (Stonebridge/Fort Meade LLC, 4.4 million sq ft on 1,300 acres), but the Southwest Florida Water Management District has signaled current water allowances cannot accommodate it.

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