Project Jarvis

St. Lucie County, FL

Project details

Capacity 1000 MW reported. Status canceled. City . County St. Lucie. State FL. Grid .

Overview

WPBF reported that developers hit pause on St. Lucie County data-center plans after withdrawing their land-use application. The story, updated February 25, 2026, says plans for what would have been Florida’s largest data center are on hold. The developers behind Sentinel Grove Technology Park, also called Project Jarvis, a more than 1,200-acre AI campus off Orange Avenue, stepped back after hearing new Tallahassee legislation, according to St. Lucie County Commissioner Cathy Townsend. She told WPBF the county did not force the withdrawal: the applicants wanted to wait on bills including Governor Ron DeSantis’s Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights (SB 482) rather than spend on a land-use change from agriculture and risk being pushed backward. Townsend said pulling the application does not take the plans off the table; it pauses them. Neighborhood meetings had been mixed, about 50-50. The developers had agreed to pay for Minute Maid Road infrastructure at Orange Avenue and to set the buildings 1,000 feet or more off the road. They have not publicly identified themselves. Townsend put the economic case at billions in taxes and about 200 jobs, plus more during construction, and said she still needed answers on noise and cooling before she would vote. Had the application reached the commission, a denial would have locked them out for two years; an approval would have been about 18 months from a shovel.

Data Center Dynamics reported on October 23, 2025 that the St. Lucie County planning and zoning commission had voted 4-2 to recommend against a comprehensive-plan amendment for the same campus, even though county staff had recommended approval. DCD, citing TCPalm, places Sentinel Grove on 1,218 acres outside Fort Pierce, on the east side of Minute Maid Road, about 2,600 feet north of Orange Avenue (SR 68), south and east of the South Florida Water Management District’s C-25 Canal, on land zoned AG-5 Agricultural. One notice said zoning would allow up to 15 million square feet, with some five million in the first phase. The application described a $13.5 billion long-term private capital investment “for the first 1,000MW of data center capacity.” The former citrus grove is owned by Epic Estates 68 LLC; Epic Estates bought it for $15 million in July 2024. Architect HJA Design Studios submitted the request with Timberline Real Estate Partners. Water and wastewater would be private package plants, not county service. DCIP DeSoto County is the separate gas-fired DeSoto County proposal.

The public map lists one canceled building. Reported campus capacity is 1,000 MW.

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Map entries are not a physical building count; campus and building scope may differ across sources.

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