O&G Industries Beacon Falls Technology Center (1 Lopus Road)
Beacon Falls, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT
O&G Industries Beacon Falls Technology Center (1 Lopus Road) is an announced data center project in Beacon Falls, CT. Reported capacity is 100 MW. Torrington-based O&G Industries is marketing (via The Agency) a 49-acre site on Lopus Road as a purpose-built 294,000 sq ft, 100 MW 'green-powered' AI data center campus with up to 33 on-site fuel cells, billed as 'Connecticut's largest data center'. It revives a 32 MW/$200M O&G data center plan for the same parcel that got a 2022 host-fee MOU but never found a tenant. No application has been filed; residents are petitioning for a moratorium (Aug-Sept 2026). (Source dated 2026-08-06.) [Reviewed 2026-10-09: verified] O&G Industries is actively marketing the 1 Lopus Road site as a 294,000 sq ft, 100 MW data center via The Agency (confirmed by multiple August-September 2026 sources); the 2022 host-fee MOU and earlier 32 MW plan are verified; no formal application has been filed as of October 2026. Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ct-town-turns-against-data-090000150.html.
- 100 MWPlanned capacity
Project status
- Announced
- Permitting
- Under constructionNot yet
- OperationalNot yet
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Connecticut state legislation
- AB222 - Data center power usage effectiveness/cost shift rulesRequires data centers to incorporate load-management and demand-response capabilities to address cost shifts.Download
- HB646 - Creates the Data Center Study CommissionCreates a commission to study data center impacts.Download
- SB00245 - An Act Eliminating Certain Tax Incentives For Data Centers.Description comingDownload
Site details
- Operator
- O&G Industries
- Capacity
- 100 MW
- Address
- Beacon Falls, CT
- Stage
- Announced
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Aerial imageryAerial imagery: USGS The National Map (public domain)
Google Street View · nearby land, not the exact site
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