Drawdown

Smithfield, RI

Smithfield Data Center

Hanton City Investments LLC · Status uncertain · Douglas Pike

Proposed business park with a data center as anchor tenant, on several hundred acres of woodland off Douglas Pike, behind Fidelity Investments' corporate campus and across from Bryant University. Developer Hanton City Investments LLC filed its application on May 4, 2026 -- one day before Smithfield's Town Council voted 4-1 to ban data centers outright in every zoning district. Whether the filing is grandfathered ahead of the ban is expected to be settled in court.

Estimated water use

Estimate

No published facility capacity (MW) is available yet. No estimate is shown without a published figure.

Lifecycle timeline

Observed

Confirmed events only, each with its source.

  1. May 4, 2026

    Hanton City Investments files its application

    Source

  2. May 5, 2026

    Town Council votes 4-1 to ban data centers town-wide

    The ordinance lists data centers as "not permitted" in every zoning district; whether Hanton City's filing, submitted one day earlier, is grandfathered is expected to be litigated.

    Source

Observed hydrologic data

Observed

From nearby USGS and NOAA monitoring stations, refreshed monthly. Dashed lines mark lifecycle milestones.

Groundwater level (ft below surface)

3 stations, overlaid

Streamflow (cubic ft/sec)

USGS Woonasquatucket River at Centerdale, RI (01114500) · monthly average

Precipitation (in)

NOAA North Central State Airport, RI (GHCND:USW00064710) · monthly average

Regulatory records

Observed

Water permits and environmental compliance records from EPA ECHO.

No permit or compliance record from these sources currently matches this facility. Maine and Rhode Island permit lists are not yet among this site's tracked sources.

Drawdown story

Assessment

Is the water table's behavior near this facility consistent with its estimated draw — and how strong is the evidence? A fixed rubric, recomputed monthly; every number below is stored with the inputs that produced it. Method: attribution-v1.

  1. 1 · Pathway

    The operator has not disclosed where this facility's water comes from. Until a source is published, the assessment is capped: an unclassified pathway can never raise the score.

  2. 2 · Detectability

    Expected drawdown at the nearest monitored well could not be computed (no water-use estimate is available).

  3. 3 · Signal

    No monitored well within 2 miles of this facility — there is no near-field record to compare against controls.

Facility not yet operating; baseline being recorded.

Attribution evidence score: withheld · as of 2026-07-22 · attribution-v1

Estimate inputs uncertainNo water-use estimate available
Pathway0/35
Detectability0/15
Temporal signal0/30
Robustness0/20