A developer is eying adjacent land to build a data center, town officials say. (Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer)Wiscasset officials are considering whether to allow the construction of a large data center on land the town was eyeing for affordable housing. If built, it could be the first large, AI-aimed data center in Maine, though there are a handful of smaller centers already in operation. Driven by the boom in machine learning technology, the rapid development of massive data centers has driven up electricity costs nationally. The potential tax revenue of a data center “would likely be on par” with that of the old plant, the select board said.