BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 9, 2025
A $300 million data center project expected to boost economic development at the former Great Northern Paper Co. mill in Millinocket has been canceled. Nautilus Data Technologies introduced the planned 60-megawatt data center with great fanfare in 2021. The Millinocket data center had been slated to be running by the end of 2022. But the company was unable to get the artificial intelligence customer it wanted because the data center would not be able to produce enough power. Instead, One North is courting companies without data-intensive needs. EME Biofuels plans to build a liquid biofuels factory using local forestry products and Great Northern Salmon is applying for permits now for a land-based salmon farm. First, more work needs to be done to clean up the former mill site. One Katahdin has been able to tap brownfields funding from the EPA, but it has been under fire by the Trump administration.