Data Center to Locate at Former Mill Site in Millinocket
Millinocket, ME. 6/5/2021 - Nautilus Data Technologies (“Nautilus”), a sustainable data center technology company, has announced plans to locate a data center at the former mill site in Millinocket, Maine. Nautilus and site owner Our Katahdin have executed a 99-year lease which clears the way for engineering, permitting and development to begin in Millinocket, effective immediately. The first phase of the $300 million project is expected to be operating by late 2022.EPA Selects Three Projects in Maine to Receive $1.3 Million for Brownfields Cleanup
BOSTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that three grantees in the state of Maine have been selected to receive $1.3 million to assess and clean up contaminated properties under the agency's Brownfields Program.
These funds will support under-served and economically disadvantaged communities around the state in assessing and cleaning up abandoned industrial and commercial properties. The Maine grant award announcements are among 151 communities across the nation to receive 154 grant awards totaling $66.5 million in Brownfields funding through its Multipurpose, Assessment, and Cleanup (MAC) Grants.
Millinocket group launches $8.5 million in upgrades to former mill site
MILLINOCKET – A volunteer development group in Millinocket is launching a second round of infrastructure upgrades at the town’s former paper mill site.
In total, Our Katahdin will spend $8.5 million on improvements to its roads, rail, water and sewer systems, as well as to its power grid and data capacity. It is partly funding the upgrades with a $5.36 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration that was awarded two years ago.
Millinocket Mill Site Headlines
Our Katahdin Awarded $5.3 Million grant to invest in former mill site
It's Our Heritage - Bangor Daily News
Collins, King, Poliquin Applaud Purchase of Former Millinocket Mill - Joint Statement
Sen. King Tours Katahdin Region and Former Mill Site in Hopes of Economic Development - WABI 5
Nonprofit buys former Great Northern Paper holdings in Millinocket - Portland Press Herald
Katahdin group buys former Great Northern Paper mill site in Millinocket - Bangor Daily News
Millinocket receives portion of mill site in 'Our Katahdin' deal - News Center Maine
Nonprofit acquires Millinocket mill site, plans collaboration with town on redevelopment - Mainebiz
Our Katahdin Newsletter - Spring 2020
Greetings from your friends at Our Katahdin. We hope you are keeping healthy and safe during these truly extraordinary times. We are inspired to see our community banding together and supporting each other as we find new ways of living and staying productive.
Like you, we are so grateful to our dedicated local healthcare professionals, first responders, retail employees, educators, volunteers and other essential frontline workers who remain the courageous engines of our community and country, now more than ever. COVID-19 is affecting all of us, either through direct health effects or indirectly through unprecedented closures. These effects are felt most strongly by our most vulnerable populations.
