Clean Cloud Energy Pursues Data Center Projects Across Four States
Clean Cloud Energy is pursuing or exploring data center and energy-campus projects in Arkansas, Arizona, Michigan and Mahomet, Illinois, typically pairing data centers with solar power and seeking tax or land-use agreements. The Mahomet talks remain exploratory, while projects elsewhere have prompted new conditions, proposed zoning rules and a data center moratorium in Richmond Township, Michigan.
Clean Cloud Energy has used a similar development model across proposed projects in Grant County, Arkansas; Mohave County, Arizona; Richmond Township, Michigan; and Mahomet, Illinois. The company typically assembles land, power, water and permitting arrangements before finding an eventual data center operator or buyer. EdgeConneX has signed a letter of intent related to the Arkansas proposal, but no completed sale or final end user has been confirmed.
In Mahomet, village officials negotiated confidentially with Clean Cloud Energy over a possible campus south of the village near Norfolk Railroad and several local roads. No formal proposal has been filed, and a draft agreement identifies Rising Edge, LLC, rather than Clean Cloud, as the developer. Clean Cloud's other proposals include an expanded 800-megawatt Arkansas project paired with a solar farm and a potential 1.25-gigawatt Entrata campus in Mohave County, Arizona, where questions remain about power and water requirements.
Public scrutiny has led to new or proposed restrictions. Grant County developed cooling, tax and compliance conditions; Mohave County adopted special-use permit and self-supplied power and water requirements; and Richmond Township placed data center development on hold under a moratorium while drafting zoning rules governing setbacks, noise, utility capacity, water use and decommissioning.