A proposed AI data center in Indiantown will affect multiple protected species and would get built on 200 acres of wetlands, according to records WPTV received from a public records request.
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Proposed data center could threaten hundreds of acres of wetlands
The project, given the codename “Silver Fox” after the road where the project is located to keep the operator anonymous, would create a 2-million-square-foot data center campus with an AI lab, four data center buildings up to 50 feet (three stories) tall, an FPL substation and two different lakes.
Records related to the project show 40% of the site’s size is made up of wetlands, and officials found multiple protected species on the property…