H L Culbreath Bayside Power Station
BrownfieldTampa, Hillsborough, Florida · Tampa Electric Co
H L Culbreath Bayside Power Station is a natural gas plant in Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida. Retired generation sites are among the most attractive datacenter redevelopment targets: the existing interconnection was sized for roughly 504 MW of generation, so the grid hookup, transmission rights, and often cooling-water access are already in place — collapsing the speed-to-power timeline versus a greenfield build.
Former use & capacity
Grid hookup & remediation
Site conditions & market — Hillsborough County
County-level intelligence for this site's location — the power economics, water, hazard, connectivity, and workforce a developer screens before ever visiting. Assembled from FEMA NRI, BLS QCEW, FCC BDC, USGS water-use, and EIA.
Market & workforce
Power economics & interconnection
Water & cooling
Hazard, flood & connectivity
County-level context — address-level utility offerings and flood zoning vary within the county. Confirm site-specific service with the utility and a Phase I ESA.
Nearby brownfield & retired-generation sites
A proximity screen of other retired-plant, contaminated, and EPA-flagged sites near H L Culbreath Bayside Power Station — the environmental neighborhood, ranked by legacy grid capacity.
| Site | Former use | Legacy MW | Distance | Cleanup status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Bend | coal plant | 1,066 | 7.9 mi | — |
| Tampa Electric Co NA 2 | natural gas plant | 982 | 0.0 mi | — |
| F J Gannon | coal plant | 635 | 0.0 mi | — |
| P L Bartow | oil plant | 494 | 11.4 mi | — |
| Hookers Point | oil plant | 233 | 2.5 mi | — |
| Higgins | natural gas plant | 153 | 16.0 mi | — |
| Tampa Electric Co NA 3 | natural gas plant | 99 | 7.8 mi | — |
| Partnership Station | natural gas plant | 6 | 1.7 mi | — |
Derived from GridCensus's retired-generator & EPA brownfield dataset. Not a substitute for an ASTM E1527 Phase I environmental radius report.
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Nearby datacenter candidate sites
Scored candidate sites near H L Culbreath Bayside Power Station, ranked by DC Readiness.
| Site | Type | State | County | Voltage | Capacity | Queue wait | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAKE TARPON | Substation-Adjacent | FL | Pinellas County | 500 kV | 1,000 MW | 1.0 yrs | 70.5 |
| KATHLEEN | Substation-Adjacent | FL | Polk County | 500 kV | 1,000 MW | 1.0 yrs | 69.9 |
| STATE ROUTE 60 | Substation-Adjacent | FL | Hillsborough County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 68.4 |
| 11TH AVENUE | Substation-Adjacent | FL | Hillsborough County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 68.4 |
| UNKNOWN120373 | Substation-Adjacent | FL | Hillsborough County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 68.3 |
| JUNEAU | Substation-Adjacent | FL | Hillsborough County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 68.3 |
| DAVIS | Substation-Adjacent | FL | Hillsborough County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 68.2 |
| EC Near Tampa Electric Co NA 2 | Greenfield | FL | Hillsborough | — | — | 3.6 yrs | 67.9 |
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Dataset updated . Screening estimates derived from public data sources.
Brownfield attributes are derived from EIA retired-generator and EPA public data. Existing capacity reflects the retired plant's historical nameplate, not deliverable interconnection for a new load. Confirm reusable interconnection rights, remediation status, and site availability with the utility, ISO, and current owner.
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