Overview
- Developers have proposed a 10‑building, $16 billion data center campus on land owned by Unified Global Packaging that would draw about 900 megawatts of power and rank among the nation’s largest facilities.
- Residents packed recent Select Board meetings to oppose the plan and every local speaker who was recorded spoke against it, prompting the board to delay a decision and schedule additional public hearings.
- Proposal materials and local reporting say the project could deliver roughly $27.8 million in property taxes to Sutton by 2035 and include town-level incentives that developers say would lower residents’ tax bills.
- The project faces heightened regulatory and political risk because Gov. Maura Healey’s 2026 executive order requires community approval for projects over 25 megawatts and a broader national wave of local moratoria and referendums has tightened approvals for hyperscale data centers.
- No formal permit application has been filed, The Kraft Group has not commented publicly, and developers say a buildout could run 2029–2033 if approved while some neighbors say they would move and local trust is strained by past Kraft controversies.