Hunter Walterman
•8/31/2026
NORTH PORT, Fla. (WINK)—North Port will consider becoming the latest community to pause data center development as part of nationwide pushback over the controversial projects.
The city commission is scheduled to discuss an 18-month moratorium on the acceptance, processing, and review of data center projects during a special meeting on Monday. It comes as neighbors learn new details about a proposed data center in the city.
Developers submitted plans for a roughly 900,000-square-foot data center facility on the evening of July 20th, according to a city web page. It includes 896,000 square feet of buildings, the city said, with about 123,200 square feet of office space. The proposal was previously covered by a non-disclosure agreement that expired on Friday.
A company called North Port Holdings 300, LLC is proposing to build the data center north of I-75 in a remote part of the city known as Yorkshire. The data center would be southwest of Yorkshire Street and east of Oleander Drive. It’s part of broader plans for a 282-acre development that could include commercial, retail, and multi-family housing.
The Deep Park development would have three separate ‘pods,' according to the city. 62-acres of commercial land closest to I-75 could have restaurants, bars, hotels, and light industry. 107 acres would include residential housing. There would be 112 acres of retail, including banks, offices, storage, and the data center.
The land is designated as an “employment epicenter,” the city said. It is zoned for several uses including commercial, light and heavy industrial, retail, warehouse, office, recreation and multi-family residential.
Commissioners plan to hold the first public hearing on the moratorium at 6:00 p.m. on Monday. It directs city staff to study and evaluate the impact of data centers and come up with possible changes to city code. The legislation said that North Port’s Unified Land Development Code does not contain specific standards to regulate data centers.
The moratorium would include the North Port 300 data center. DeSoto County passed a one-year moratorium on data center applications in July. However, it did not include a controversial data center proposal that could expand to more than 1,000 acres.
