BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 9, 2026
A real estate developer filed permit applications Monday with regulators to turn the former International Paper mill site in Jay into an artificial intelligence data center, five months after his original project was put on hold. JGT2 Redevelopment, owned in part by Portland commercial real estate developer Tony McDonald, issued a public notice published Sunday that it planned to file an amended site location permit and an air emission license application with Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection.