About this time next month, when Wiscasset's non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with whoever eyed town land for a data center is supposed to come out, the full NDA and any other documents the town releases might be not all that exciting, depending on what you consider exciting, and despite the attention we the news media, including Wiscasset Newspaper, have rightly given the matter along the way. 

Wiscasset Newspaper obtained and reported on the town's redacted version of the NDA last October, after word came out about an agent's inquiry the town had received. As such documents often go, the NDA said a little in a lot of words, with the drift being it bars the parties from making public disclosures about each other, without a written OK.

And being redacted, it did not say who was eying the town-owned Old Ferry Road property for a possible data center site. But when we finally know whatever town counsel and the law says we can know, unless the outfit turns out to be one known for chafing with, or instead largely benefiting, the communities it is already in, I'm not sure the identity is going to add that much to the story. We want to know so we can check out the company's history, its size, any lawsuits, etc. But whichever outfit it is, some of those who opposed a data center on that property when they did not know the party's identity probably won't be any warmer to the idea when they can put a name to it.

Not to mention, according to officials last week, the data center agent has long since stopped knocking. 

Maybe the outfit is no longer interested; or maybe the silence is because the town has since been working toward drafting requests for proposals, so there was no point in the agent's communicating further when the town was not ready to take up proposals for anything on that acreage.

We shall see.