Thomas Quinn wants to build a hyperscale data center — what would be the single largest user of electricity in Connecticut — next to the Millstone Nuclear Power plant in Waterford. A few weeks ago, Quinn, president of NE Edge, and his partners Christopher Regan and William DiBella spoke with CT Examiner about the project. Regan, like Quinn, is a real estate developer. In the 1990s, DiBella, a Democrat, served as the State Senate Majority Leader before leaving elected politics and becoming a lobbyist. None of the partners have prior experience with data center or technology projects, but Quinn was clear that the partners don’t plan to develop the project on their own. According to figures provided by NE Edge, the project would require a $1.6 billion in investment and would consume 300 megawatts of power once operating — the size of the largest-scale, next-generation data centers used for high-density AI computing.
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