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AI datacenters

This is a collection of major AI datacenter installations. Unlike those paywalled lists maintained by analysts and the sort, I do not include rumors or conjectures (because they’re often wrong). I do my best to back up every fact with a reputable source so that nobody can accuse me of leaking any information that isn’t public.

Abilene, TX (Oracle, Crusoe)

Abilene is the site of a significant deployment of Oracle Cloud datacenters for the Stargate Project.1 Abilene is also the site of a 206 MW, $3.4 billion datacenter development by Crusoe2 with plans to increase to 1.2 GW.3 While unconfirmed, signs point to these two projects being one in the same, and The Information claimed that Oracle will lease the Crusoe site.4 In addition, Oracle is listed as the tenant for the datacenters being developed by Crusoe per the Texas comptroller’s records.5

The Crusoe development is occurring on a 1000-acre site owned by Lancium that is dubbed the Lancium Clean Campus. As of 2025, it had two datacenters under development:

  1. A 482,000 sqft facility with an estimated cost of $292 million whose construction began in June 2024 and will be completed by May 2025, with $140 million in tenant improvements to be completed by September 2025
  2. A 484,960 sqft facility with an estimated cost of $292 million whose construction began in September 2024 and will be completed in September 2025, with $384 million in tenant improvements to be completed by December 2025.

An application to construct a 360.5 MW simple cycle gas-fired power plant at the Abilene site were filed in January 2025.6 This will be less efficient and produce greater emissions than a combined cycle plant. GE Vernova and Solar Turbines are each providing half of the turbines, and this plant will not be connected to the grid.

Denton, TX (CoreWeave, Core Scientific)

Core Scientific is developing a datacenter in Denton, TX on 78.85 acres7 that is near the Denton Energy Center, a 225 MW gas-fired power plant.8 The site’s total power will be 394 MW7 and is being developed at a cost of up to $6.1 billion.7

At least 70 MW of this capacity is being leased to CoreWeave.9

The Denton Energy Center uses simple cycle reciprocating engines8 rather than gas turbines because it was designed to be a load-following, not baseload, power plant. As a result, it has lower efficiency and higher emissions than a combined cycle plant.

Franklin Farms, LA (Meta)

Franklin Farms is a 1,400-acre site in Holly Ridge, Louisiana on which Meta will be building a $10 billion, 1.5 GW data center complex. It will be the size of “a significant part of Manhattan.”10

Meta is partnering with Entergy11 to install two natural gas-fired combined cycle turbines at the site, providing a total of 1.5 GW of power.12 Meta has pledged to match this with 1.5 GW of “100% clean and renewable energy” in the form of carbon credits.11

Memphis, TN (xAI)

xAI’s Colossus supercomputer is housed at a former appliance factory at 3231 Paul R. Lowry Road. It is colocated with a 1.1 GW combined cycle gas power plant and has approval for 150 MW of power. See Facility for more information.

Mount Pleasant, WI (Microsoft)

Mount Pleasant is the site of a $3.3 billion facility being developed by Microsoft,13 partly on the land originally sited for a Foxconn factory.14 Microsoft maintains a public relations website about this project.15

Source: WSJ

It is being developed in three separate phases:16

  1. 214 acres at the corner of 90th St and Highway KR
  2. 115 acres (“to the west [of the 90th and KR?])
  3. 791 acres at Durand Ave

Microsoft has purchased 1,900 acres in the area.16

West Des Moines, IA (Microsoft)

See Iowa Supercomputer (2022-2023) for now.

Footnotes

  1. $500B AI infrastructure investment set to transform Texas ↩

  2. Commercial Observer ↩

  3. Crusoe to Build Initial 200 MW AI Data Center With Plans to Expand at 1.2 GW Lancium Clean Campus (crusoe.ai) ↩

  4. Why OpenAI’s Data Center Plan Hinges on a Little-Known Startup — The Information ↩

  5. Here’s the Cost, Construction Timeline of Abilene Stargate Data Center - Business Insider ↩

  6. Stargate Data Center Gets Power Boost With Natural Gas Plant in Texas - Business Insider ↩

  7. Core Scientific plans to upgrade Denton, Texas, data center for up to $6.1bn - DCD ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  8. Denton Energy Center | Projects ↩ ↩2

  9. CoreWeave closes in on $35bn IPO - report - DCD ↩

  10. Meta Spending to Soar on AI, Massive Data Center | Readwise ↩

  11. Meta selects Entergy, Northeast Louisiana as site of $10B data center ↩ ↩2

  12. Entergy Louisiana Eyes 2.2 GW of New Gas-Fired Generation to Support Data Center Demand ↩

  13. Microsoft announces $3.3 billion investment in Wisconsin to spur artificial intelligence innovation and economic growth - Stories ↩

  14. Now everyone claims Microsoft will build a data center on the Foxconn land in Wisconsin | The Verge ↩

  15. Wisconsin - Microsoft Local ↩

  16. Microsoft pauses construction on portions of Mount Pleasant project - WPR ↩ ↩2

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