Deployments

Exemplar campuses · Chosen by model, not size · US first; others where the model differs

Each page here takes one flagship campus and the company's or country's other sites in a table. Campuses are chosen because each shows a different way to power, cool, connect, own or finance AI compute, not because they are the largest; the rankings are separate.

Index of DatacentersX deployment pages: eight US AI campuses, five campuses outside the US and four science and national lab sites, each with its headline capacity and colored by energy model US AI CAMPUSES SpaceX Colossus1.5 GW, Memphis Stargate1.2 GW, Abilene Meta Hyperion5 GW, Louisiana Microsoft Fairwater~2.3 GW, Wisconsin AWS Project Rainier2.25 GW, Indiana Google Tembo2.7 GW, Wyoming Tesla Cortex~225 MW live, Austin Fermi Matador222 MW lease, Amarillo OUTSIDE THE US Ulanqab, China12.5-15 GW committed UAE-US AI Campus5 GW plan, 0 live Campus IA, France700 MW grid contract SoftBank Sakai~150 MW, Japan YTL Kulai, Johor150 MW delivered SCIENCE AND NATIONAL LABS PORTS Campus10 GW, Ohio Oak Ridge LabFrontier, 24.6 MW TACC Horizon15-20 MW, Round Rock Rubin ObservatoryChile to SLAC Gas, onsite or utility Grid Nuclear-led Wind and coal
Exemplar pages
17
US AI campuses
8
Outside the US
5
Science and labs
4
Ranking rule
Committed, not announced
Hub
Deployments

How campuses are chosen

Four Questions for Every Campus

Every exemplar page answers the same four questions, so campuses can be compared across very different scales.

  • Power in: grid, utility-built plants, onsite gas, nuclear, or a mix, and who pays for new generation.
  • Heat out: air, direct-to-chip liquid, closed loops or warm water, and the water each uses.
  • Coherence: how much of the campus can run one training job, and how sites are linked.
  • Owner: who owns the land, building, power plant and chips, and who rents what to whom.

Committed, not announced. Megawatt figures are capacity committed to build for the operator or a named tenant. Announced potential, such as land, generation permits or utility studies, is shown separately and labeled. See Largest Data Centers in the US for the full rule.

US AI campuses

Eight US AI Campuses, Eight Different Models

  • Gas, onsite or utility-built
  • Grid
  • Nuclear-led
  • Wind and coal
US AI campus exemplars
PageCommitted MWEnergyOwnerWhat it shows
SpaceX ColossusMemphis, TN and Southaven, MS1,500 (Colossus 2)Turbines, grid and MegapacksSpaceX; capacity leased to Anthropic and othersWhere Grok lives, and a frontier lab renting compute to rivals
StargateAbilene, TX and other US sitesAbout 1,200 at AbileneGas and gridOpenAI with Oracle, SoftBank and developersThe largest announced program, financed site by site
Meta HyperionRichland Parish, LA5,000Utility gas plantsBlue Owl owns 80%; Meta is tenantInvestors own the campus; Meta runs it
Microsoft FairwaterMount Pleasant, WIAbout 2,263 by 2028 (estimate)Grid and utility gasMicrosoft, plus leases and neocloud contractsTwo campuses trained as one over a dedicated AI network
AWS Project RainierNew Carlisle, IN2,250 grid drawGridAWS, built for AnthropicAmazon's own Trainium chips at gigawatt scale
Google Project TemboLaramie County, WY2,700Grid, fuel cells and gasGoogleTPUs in owned, backstopped and customer sites
Tesla CortexGiga Texas, AustinAbout 225 liveGridTeslaTraining for cars and robots; Dojo retired
Fermi America MatadorCarson County, TX222 MW lease, not closedPrivate gas; nuclear in licensingPublic developerThe gap between a 17 GW claim and one lease

Outside the US

Five Campuses That Work Differently From the US Set

Non-US campuses appear when their model has no US equivalent: state planning, sovereign capital under export licenses, a nuclear grid with fast-track connections, brownfield conversion, or growth driven by export controls.

Exemplars outside the US
PageCommitted MWEnergyOwnerWhat it shows
Ulanqab, Inner MongoliaChinaAbout 12,500-15,000Wind and coalMany operators in a state-planned hubCompute moved west to cheap power, on Chinese chips
UAE-US AI CampusAbu Dhabi, UAE5,000 plan; 0 liveNuclear, gas and solar namedG42 and Khazna; US firms to operateGulf capital under US export-license terms
Campus IAFouju, France240, then 700 (grid contract)Nuclear-backed gridMGX, Bpifrance, Mistral, NvidiaEurope's binding limit is the grid connection
SoftBank SakaiSakai, JapanAbout 150Reused plant powerSoftBank; KDDI next doorA brownfield LCD plant bought for its power service
YTL KulaiJohor, Malaysia150 delivered; 1,200 targetGrid and solarYTL PowerGrowth driven by Singapore's limits and export controls

Science and national labs

Federal Land, National Labs and Science Data

Science and national lab exemplars
PageCommitted MWEnergyOwnerWhat it shows
PORTS Technology CampusPiketon, OH10,000Mostly gasSB Energy on DOE landFederal sites leased to private AI developers
Oak Ridge National LaboratoryOak Ridge, TNFrontier 24.6Grid, TVADOE, with AMD and HPE co-fundingLab supercomputers now co-financed by vendors
TACC HorizonRound Rock, TX15-20GridUT Austin for NSF, in a Sabey colocation buildingAn academic supercomputer in a commercial data center
Rubin ObservatoryChile to SLAC, CA2.5 at SLACGridNSF and DOEScience limited by moving data, not computing it

Rankings and reference

Rankings and Reference

Record

Dataset Record

Dataset
Exemplar index; campus rows in us_ai_campuses.csv and world_ai_campuses.csv
Sources
Listed on each exemplar page
Last verified
October 2026