Project Shirley
Sentinel Data Centers has proposed a 500 MW data center in Lake County, Indiana (proposed). One source reports this facility in the Kapwork Grow tracker.
- Capacity
- 500 MW
- Investment
- $5B
- Site
- 160 acres
Who's on this build
Named in the cited sources. No source reports who builds it.
- Other Sentinel Data Centers builds
Operator
Sentinel Data Centers
Utility
NIPSCO (via GenCo subsidiary)
Record quality
- Datasets
- 1
- Location
- Site footprint confirmed
- Summary
- From published records
- Source as of
- Last material change
Site and infrastructure
CA Compute AtlasKW Kapwork Grow tracker record
Status
- Operator
- Sentinel Data Centers
- Stage
- Proposed
- Facility type
- AI data center
Scale
- Reported capacity
- 500 MW
- Reported investment
- $5B
- Site area
- 160 acres
Site
- City
- Eagle Creek Township
- County
- Lake
- State
- Indiana
- Location precision
- Site footprint confirmed
- Community response
- Local opposition reported
Power and cooling
- Utility
- NIPSCO (via GenCo subsidiary)
- Power source
- Grid power
- AI workload
- Likely AI or machine-learning workload
Sources, method and limits
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What each source reports
| Dataset | Reported name | Reported status | Reported MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compute Atlas | Project Shirley | Proposed | 500 MW |
Sources and evidence
- CACompute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0)As of: Jul 9, 2026 · Record: project-shirley-eagle-creek-township-lake-county-in
- CALatitude Media (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 9, 2026
- KWKapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here (free account)As of: Sep 23, 2026 · Record: 215541793191572
Limitations and interpretation
- This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-09-23. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
- Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
- An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
- Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.
Cite or correct this record
Kapwork Grow, “Project Shirley”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/project-shirley-in-dc_c408bc047694, materially updated Sep 24, 2026.
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An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order. Capacity and dates are as reported by the cited sources. “Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.
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