{"version":2,"generated_at":"2026-06-05T00:00:00Z","license":"TF curation CC-BY-4.0. Underlying public-record sources retain their original license.","notice":"Editorial registry of disclosed major AI buildout projects. Each entry preserves canonical source URLs. Capacity, capex, and timeline figures reflect publicly announced or reported numbers at time of curation and may evolve. Status enum: announced (publicly committed, no ground broken), permitted (regulatory greenlights obtained), construction (active build), operational (online and serving traffic). Power source enum is the announced primary source; many projects mix multiple feeds.","schema":{"id":"string slug","name":"project display name","operator":"primary AI operator / tenant","partners":"array of named development, capital, or supply partners","location":"city, state or region, country","status":"announced | permitted | construction | operational","capacity_mw_announced":"integer megawatts, announced peak draw","power_source":"primary announced source","announced_date":"ISO date of public announcement","target_operational":"year or year range","capex_usd_billion":"approximate announced capex; null if not disclosed","context":"one-paragraph editorial summary","primary_sources":"array of authoritative URLs"},"projects":[{"id":"stargate-abilene","name":"Stargate Abilene","operator":"OpenAI","partners":["Oracle","Crusoe Energy","SoftBank","MGX"],"location":{"city":"Abilene","state":"Texas","country":"USA"},"status":"construction","capacity_mw_announced":1200,"power_source":"natural gas plus grid","announced_date":"2025-01-21","target_operational":"2026","capex_usd_billion":100,"context":"First flagship campus of the $500 billion Stargate program, announced from the White House in January 2025. Crusoe Energy is the campus developer; Oracle Cloud is the anchor tenant; OpenAI is the primary compute consumer. Phase one of a multi-site rollout.","primary_sources":["https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/","https://www.crusoeenergy.com/news/the-stargate-project"]},{"id":"meta-hyperion-richland-parish","name":"Meta Hyperion","operator":"Meta","partners":["Blue Owl Capital","Entergy"],"location":{"city":"Richland Parish","state":"Louisiana","country":"USA"},"status":"construction","capacity_mw_announced":5000,"power_source":"natural gas plus grid","announced_date":"2024-12-04","target_operational":"2030","capex_usd_billion":27,"context":"Meta's largest single data center campus. Originally announced December 2024 as a $10 billion independent project; restructured in October 2025 into a $27 billion joint venture with Blue Owl Capital (80% Blue Owl, 20% Meta). Up to 5 GW total capacity; Phase 1 targets 1.5 GW by late 2027, using roughly 1.3 million NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. Entergy Louisiana is the serving utility and is building 10 gas-fired plants to serve the load.","primary_sources":["https://about.fb.com/news/2024/12/meta-establishing-louisiana-data-center/","https://about.fb.com/news/2025/10/meta-blue-owl-capital-develop-hyperion-data-center/"]},{"id":"xai-colossus-memphis","name":"SpaceXAI Colossus","operator":"SpaceXAI","partners":["Supermicro","Dell","Anthropic (tenant)"],"location":{"city":"Memphis","state":"Tennessee","country":"USA"},"status":"operational","capacity_mw_announced":300,"power_source":"natural gas turbines plus grid","announced_date":"2024-06-05","target_operational":"2024","capex_usd_billion":null,"context":"Operational since late 2024, initially with 100,000 NVIDIA H100s, expanding to 555,000+ GPUs across Colossus 1 and 2 by 2026. SpaceX acquired xAI in February 2026 and merged the AI division into SpaceXAI in May 2026. In May 2026, Anthropic leased the entire Colossus 1 cluster (220,000+ GPUs, 300+ MW) to supplement its Google Cloud TPU capacity. Local controversy persists over temporary gas turbines and air quality in nearby neighborhoods.","primary_sources":["https://x.ai/news/colossus","https://www.supermicro.com/en/pressreleases/supermicro-and-xai-launch-worlds-largest-ai-supercomputer","https://www.actuia.com/en/news/anthropic-rents-colossus-1-for-125-billionmonth-on-an-xai-park-capped-at-11-capacity/"]},{"id":"microsoft-three-mile-island","name":"Three Mile Island Unit 1 Restart","operator":"Microsoft","partners":["Constellation Energy"],"location":{"city":"Londonderry Township","state":"Pennsylvania","country":"USA"},"status":"permitted","capacity_mw_announced":835,"power_source":"nuclear","announced_date":"2024-09-20","target_operational":"2028","capex_usd_billion":1.6,"context":"Constellation will restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 (renamed Crane Clean Energy Center) under a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft. Unit 1 is the undamaged reactor on the site; Unit 2 was the one that suffered the 1979 partial meltdown and remains permanently shut. NRC license renewal in progress.","primary_sources":["https://news.microsoft.com/source/2024/09/20/constellation-and-microsoft-sign-power-purchase-agreement/","https://www.constellationenergy.com/newsroom/2024/Three-Mile-Island-Restart.html"]},{"id":"amazon-talen-susquehanna","name":"Amazon Susquehanna Campus","operator":"Amazon Web Services","partners":["Talen Energy"],"location":{"city":"Salem Township","state":"Pennsylvania","country":"USA"},"status":"construction","capacity_mw_announced":960,"power_source":"nuclear","announced_date":"2024-03-04","target_operational":"2025","capex_usd_billion":0.65,"context":"AWS acquired the Cumulus data center campus adjacent to Talen Energy's Susquehanna nuclear plant for $650 million. Initial direct-feed agreement of 480 MW with provisions to scale to 960 MW. FERC blocked an amended interconnection in late 2024, sending the parties back to renegotiate the grid-bypass structure.","primary_sources":["https://www.talenenergy.com/news/talen-energy-completes-650-million-data-center-campus-sale-to-aws/"]},{"id":"google-council-bluffs","name":"Google Council Bluffs Expansion","operator":"Google","partners":["MidAmerican Energy"],"location":{"city":"Council Bluffs","state":"Iowa","country":"USA"},"status":"construction","capacity_mw_announced":null,"power_source":"mixed including wind PPA","announced_date":"2023-04-26","target_operational":"ongoing","capex_usd_billion":5.4,"context":"Multi-phase expansion of Google's flagship Iowa cloud region, the heart of its TPU deployment footprint. Most recent announced phase brought cumulative Iowa investment past $7 billion. Google has paired the buildout with multiple wind and solar PPAs through MidAmerican.","primary_sources":["https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/iowa-council-bluffs-investment-2023/"]},{"id":"anthropic-google-tpu-buildout","name":"Anthropic TPU Capacity Commitment","operator":"Anthropic","partners":["Google Cloud","Broadcom"],"location":{"city":"multi-region","state":"Google Cloud regions","country":"USA"},"status":"construction","capacity_mw_announced":null,"power_source":"Google Cloud regional mix","announced_date":"2026-05-05","target_operational":"2027","capex_usd_billion":200,"context":"Five-year, $200 billion compute commitment from Anthropic for Google Cloud capacity and Broadcom-built TPU chips, reported on May 5, 2026. The buildout is a derived AI-infrastructure project rather than a single named campus; the gigawatt-scale capacity backing it begins arriving in 2027 across Google Cloud regions. See the TF original analysis for the math.","primary_sources":["https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-200-billion-google-deal","https://tensorfeed.ai/originals/anthropic-200b-google-tpu-math"]},{"id":"microsoft-mount-pleasant-wisconsin","name":"Microsoft Mount Pleasant Campus","operator":"Microsoft","partners":["We Energies"],"location":{"city":"Mount Pleasant","state":"Wisconsin","country":"USA"},"status":"construction","capacity_mw_announced":null,"power_source":"mixed including new gas plants","announced_date":"2024-03-08","target_operational":"2026","capex_usd_billion":3.3,"context":"Sits on the former Foxconn site. Microsoft announced an additional $3.3 billion commitment in 2024 on top of earlier phases. We Energies has separately filed for approval of two new natural gas peaker plants partly attributed to the data center load.","primary_sources":["https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/08/3-3b-microsoft-investment-in-mount-pleasant-to-spur-ai-innovation/"]},{"id":"meta-prometheus-ohio","name":"Meta Prometheus","operator":"Meta","partners":["AEP Ohio"],"location":{"city":"New Albany","state":"Ohio","country":"USA"},"status":"construction","capacity_mw_announced":1500,"power_source":"grid","announced_date":"2024-08-14","target_operational":"2026","capex_usd_billion":1,"context":"Meta's New Albany campus expansion, codenamed Prometheus. Targeting 1.5 GW capacity on completion, with advanced liquid cooling. Sits inside the broader AEP Ohio service area which has filed multiple data center load adjustments. Smaller than Hyperion but on track for earlier operational status.","primary_sources":["https://about.fb.com/news/2024/08/expanding-our-new-albany-data-center/","https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/new-albany/meet-prometheus-world-highest-capacity-data-center-slated-to-open-in-ohio-in-2026/"]},{"id":"apple-maiden","name":"Apple Maiden Campus Expansion","operator":"Apple","partners":["Duke Energy"],"location":{"city":"Maiden","state":"North Carolina","country":"USA"},"status":"operational","capacity_mw_announced":null,"power_source":"Duke Energy renewable PPAs","announced_date":"2023-06-07","target_operational":"ongoing","capex_usd_billion":1,"context":"Apple's flagship east-coast data center, expanded multiple times to support Apple Intelligence and the M-series silicon trained at AWS plus Apple's own private cloud compute. Paired with Apple-owned solar farms in Catawba and Conover.","primary_sources":["https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/apple-launches-its-largest-renewable-energy-project-in-europe/"]},{"id":"coreweave-fleet","name":"CoreWeave AI Cloud Fleet","operator":"CoreWeave","partners":["Microsoft","Nvidia"],"location":{"city":"multi-region","state":"32+ US data centers","country":"USA plus Europe"},"status":"operational","capacity_mw_announced":null,"power_source":"colocation grid mix","announced_date":"2017-01-01","target_operational":"ongoing","capex_usd_billion":20,"context":"AI-specialized GPU cloud, IPO on Nasdaq in March 2025 (CRWV). Operates 49 data centers as of mid-2026 with 1.0 GW operational in Q1 2026, targeting 1.7+ GW by year-end. Planning 5+ GW by 2030. Microsoft is the anchor customer, accounting for roughly half of revenue. NVIDIA holds a meaningful equity stake ($2 billion investment, January 2026). Heavy spend on multi-year capacity commitments tied to Microsoft and OpenAI deals.","primary_sources":["https://www.coreweave.com/","https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001769628&type=10-K"]},{"id":"iren-fleet","name":"IREN AI Compute Fleet","operator":"IREN","partners":["Nvidia","Dell"],"location":{"city":"multi-region","state":"Childress TX, West Texas, British Columbia","country":"USA and Canada"},"status":"construction","capacity_mw_announced":2910,"power_source":"renewables (wind, solar, hydro)","announced_date":"2025-09-22","target_operational":"2027","capex_usd_billion":2.1,"context":"Originally Iris Energy, Australian-founded Bitcoin miner that pivoted to AI compute. Nvidia announced a $2.1 billion equity stake in 2026 covering five gigawatts of DSX-branded rack deployments over the next several years. Renewable-power-focused, with sites in Childress and West Texas and British Columbia. Nasdaq ticker IREN.","primary_sources":["https://iris-energy.com.au/","https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/"]},{"id":"hut8-ai-portfolio","name":"Hut 8 AI Hosting Portfolio","operator":"Hut 8","partners":["Coatue","Anthropic (reported)"],"location":{"city":"multi-region","state":"Salt Creek TX, Vega TX, North Dakota","country":"USA and Canada"},"status":"construction","capacity_mw_announced":1500,"power_source":"natural gas plus grid","announced_date":"2024-06-04","target_operational":"2026","capex_usd_billion":1.2,"context":"Originally a Bitcoin mining operator (Nasdaq HUT), now pivoting infrastructure toward AI hosting. Joint venture with Coatue (Highrise AI) targeting gigawatt-class HPC capacity. Mixed-use sites still run some Bitcoin workloads while new AI capacity comes online. Vega TX site is the flagship new build.","primary_sources":["https://hut8.com/","https://hut8.com/news/"]},{"id":"lambda-labs","name":"Lambda GPU Cloud Fleet","operator":"Lambda Labs","partners":["Microsoft","Nvidia"],"location":{"city":"multi-region","state":"primarily US colocation","country":"USA"},"status":"operational","capacity_mw_announced":null,"power_source":"colocation grid mix","announced_date":"2012-01-01","target_operational":"ongoing","capex_usd_billion":null,"context":"Established AI-specialized GPU cloud with H100 and H200 SuperPOD deployments across US colocation partners. Smaller than CoreWeave on raw capacity but well-known among AI research teams and frontier labs running shorter-cycle workloads. Multi-year Microsoft capacity agreement disclosed in 2024.","primary_sources":["https://lambda.ai/","https://lambda.ai/news/lambda-and-microsoft-strategic-collaboration"]},{"id":"stargate-michigan","name":"Stargate Michigan (The Barn)","operator":"OpenAI","partners":["Oracle","Walbridge","Related Digital","Blackstone","SoftBank"],"location":{"city":"Saline","state":"Michigan","country":"USA"},"status":"construction","capacity_mw_announced":1000,"power_source":"grid","announced_date":"2026-06-04","target_operational":"2027","capex_usd_billion":7,"context":"Second major Stargate campus after Abilene, Texas. Ground broken June 4, 2026 by Walbridge in Saline Township, Washtenaw County. Three 550,000-square-foot buildings planned on 250 acres; the first was nearing completion at groundbreaking. Development alongside Related Digital and Blackstone. Part of the broader $500 billion Stargate program announced from the White House in January 2025.","primary_sources":["https://www.constructiondive.com/news/walbridge-breaks-ground-stargate-data-center-openai-oracle/821972/","https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/stargate-project-michigan-live-updates.html"]},{"id":"anthropic-fluidstack-us","name":"Anthropic AI Infrastructure (Fluidstack)","operator":"Anthropic","partners":["Fluidstack"],"location":{"city":"Texas and New York (multi-site)","state":"TX, NY","country":"USA"},"status":"construction","capacity_mw_announced":null,"power_source":"grid","announced_date":"2025-11-12","target_operational":"2026","capex_usd_billion":50,"context":"Anthropic committed $50 billion to American AI infrastructure, with Fluidstack as the build partner across initial sites in Texas and New York. Announced November 12, 2025 alongside an expected 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs. Sites are designed as custom data centers optimized for Anthropic workloads and are coming online in phases through 2026. The gigawatt-scale capacity complements Anthropic's Google Cloud TPU commitments and its lease of SpaceXAI Colossus 1.","primary_sources":["https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-invests-50-billion-in-american-ai-infrastructure"]},{"id":"anthropic-spacex-colossus-orbital","name":"Orbital AI Compute (Concept)","operator":"Anthropic, SpaceX, Google (separately exploring)","partners":["Starcloud","various"],"location":{"city":"low Earth orbit","state":"feasibility studies","country":"international"},"status":"announced","capacity_mw_announced":null,"power_source":"solar (free, continuous, vacuum-radiated cooling)","announced_date":"2026-05-09","target_operational":"2030 or later","capex_usd_billion":null,"context":"Multiple separately-reported feasibility programs into placing AI training or inference capacity in low Earth orbit. Anthropic and SpaceX have publicly discussed orbital extensions of Colossus-class compute; Google has separately explored similar concepts via Starcloud-style partners. Power thesis: continuous solar plus vacuum heat-rejection sidesteps the grid and water constraints driving terrestrial buildouts. Capacity, capex, and timeline figures are all aspirational at this stage. Concept-stage entry; we will reclassify when a launch contract or specific construction commitment lands.","primary_sources":["https://tensorfeed.ai/originals/anthropic-spacexai-colossus-orbital"]}]}