Every major AI data center project, by site, megawatt and status

Hyperion in Richland Parish, Louisiana targets 5 GW, with 1.5 GW by the end of 2027 and 2 GW by 2030, across 2,250 acres and 4 million square feet. The financing is the more instructive fact: $3B of equity from Blue Owl Capital plus $26B of debt from PIMCO, arranged by Morgan Stanley — the template for off-balance-sheet hyperscale development. Power comes from three combined-cycle gas plants totalling roughly 2.25 GW at about $4B, plus a 100-mile 500kV Entergy line at $1.2B and six on-site customer substations, alongside 1.8 GW of solar and wind and 150 MW of geothermal.

Prometheus in New Albany, Ohio is multi-gigawatt, targeted online in 2026, on 740 acres, and built with rapid deployment structures — weatherproof fabric tent buildings, a genuine break in construction methodology. A behind-the-meter Socrates South gas facility, 200 MW approved and 400 MW eventual, is built and operated by Will-Power, a Williams Companies venture, with two 24-inch pipelines, alongside roughly $1.7B of AEP transmission upgrades in PJM on a seven to ten year horizon.

Meta Compute, established 12 January 2026, is co-led by Santosh Janardhan and Daniel Gross, formerly chief executive of Safe Superintelligence, with Dina Powell McCormick hired for sovereign partnerships. Third-party cloud commitments total roughly $47B or more: Google at more than $10B, CoreWeave at $14.2B, Nebius at $3B, and approximately $20B under discussion with Oracle.

Colossus 1, in a former Electrolux plant on Paul R. Lowry Road, was built in 122 days and scaled from roughly 8 MW of grid power to about 150 MW, with 168 Tesla Megapacks. In May 2026 Anthropic agreed to rent essentially all of its capacity — a notable second life for an H100 and H200 fleet.

Colossus 2, known as Macrohard, sits on Tulane Road in Whitehaven in a warehouse acquired in February 2025 for roughly $80M. Its first major cluster came online in about 91 days in January 2026, scaling to between 300,000 and 350,000-plus GPUs by mid-2026, with the first cluster at roughly 210 MW. Power comes from a behind-the-meter gas plant in Southaven, Mississippi, with 50 to 70 temporary mobile turbines being phased out and a permanent 1.2 GW, 41-turbine simple-cycle plant permitted in March 2026.

The litigation is the site-selection lesson. The NAACP filed a federal Clean Air Act suit in Mississippi in April 2026, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice, alleging unpermitted operation and disproportionate impact on Black communities. In June 2026 the Department of Justice moved to intervene and dismiss on national, economic and energy security grounds. An agreed order with Mississippi regulators sets a July 2027 deadline to remove the temporary turbines. Behind-the-meter generation solves the queue and creates a permitting and community-relations exposure in its place.

Project Rainier runs at 910 MW of IT power now, projected to 1,925 MW by the first quarter of 2028, with capex moving from $34.5B to a projected $72.9B according to Epoch AI. Amazon has deployed 1,045,000 Trainium2 chips, with buildings 19 to 32 slated for Trainium3. Buildings 1 to 7 went operational in June 2025 and buildings 12 to 16 in March 2026, with expansion completion in March 2028. Air permits indicate 2.3 GW of total facility power. The campus uses direct air cooling with no external cooling infrastructure. Separately, AWS has announced a $50B, 1.3 GW US government AI buildout beginning in 2026.

Fairwater at Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin is a $7.3B, 315-acre campus of three buildings totalling 1.2 million square feet, which went live ahead of schedule in April 2026 — 46.6 miles of deep foundation piles, 26.5 million pounds of structural steel and 120 miles of medium-voltage cable. Fifteen additional buildings were approved in January 2026. The Atlanta Fairwater, launched in November 2025, is two storeys and runs without UPS or generator sets. Microsoft’s Atlanta investment is reported at $1.8B with a new cloud region in 2027.

Google has committed $40B in Texas through 2027 across Armstrong County, two Haskell County sites, a Midlothian expansion and a Dallas cloud region — announced 14 November 2025 and described by Governor Abbott as Google’s largest state investment. Add Oklahoma at $9B with a 506-acre Tulsa County campus, Iowa at $7B, Montgomery County Missouri at $15B, and India at $15B.

Anthropic announced a $50B US data center program with Fluidstack on 12 November 2025, with custom sites in Texas and New York and roughly 800 permanent plus 2,400 construction jobs; a multi-gigawatt Google and Broadcom TPU commitment announced 6 April 2026 with capacity online from 2027; and a $30B Azure commitment. Megawatt figures for the Fluidstack sites are not disclosed.

CoreWeave reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $2.575B against $1.212B a year earlier, with 1.5 GW of active power, up roughly 500 MW in the quarter, about 3.7 GW contracted, a target of 5 GW more by 2030, and a backlog of roughly $104B at 30 June 2026 plus more than $25B of net new commitments in early Q3.

Nebius holds $19.4B over five years from Microsoft for more than 100,000 GB300s and $3B over five years from Meta, targeting roughly 2.5 GW contracted and 800 MW to 1 GW connected by the end of 2026, with all available capacity sold out. Sites include 300 MW in New Jersey with DataOne.

Stargate UAE targets 200 MW in phase one in the third quarter of 2026, scaling to 1 GW, with Khazna of G42, OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia, Cisco and SoftBank, inside Abu Dhabi’s 5 GW, 19.2 square kilometre UAE-US AI Campus. The United States authorized export of up to 35,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips to G42. SoftBank separately announced a 5 GW, 75 billion euro program in northern France with a 3.1 GW first phase. Damac Digital claims 6 GW across 13 countries.

The Virginia Digital Gateway in Prince William County was abandoned on 2 July 2026. It was 2,100 acres, 22 million square feet and gigawatt-scale, and would have been the world’s largest. Virginia courts invalidated the rezoning in March 2026 because the newspaper notices for the approval hearing were not separated by the six days state and local code require. The county declined to fund further appeals, Compass exited, and QTS dropped its Supreme Court appeal.

Fermi America’s Project Matador in Amarillo, Texas was proposed at 11 GW and later 17 GW adjacent to the Pantex plant, having raised $746M in an October 2025 initial public offering. The anchor tenant’s exclusivity expired and it withdrew in late 2025. Satellite imagery through April 2026 showed no buildings had begun construction against a plan for 1 million square feet by April 2026 and 1 GW by year end. The chief financial officer warned of surrendering collateral to preserve liquidity and the chief executive departed on 17 April 2026. Announced gigawatts are not capacity.