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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Address and locality
- Oak Ridge · Roane County · Tennessee
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 9 September 2026
- Location precision
- representative multi site
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000510
What the source record says
DOE's Offices of Environmental Management and Science issued a Request for Proposal on 2025-09-30 (published the week of 2025-10-13 per FedScoop) seeking U.S. companies to build, own and operate AI data centers and/or energy generation on the Oak Ridge Reservation under one or more long-term ground leases funded entirely by the lessee. TWO SITES are named in the DOE release: one at the East Tennessee Technology Park and one on land adjacent to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This is recorded as a single record with representative_multi_site precision, geocoded to the East Tennessee Technology Park, because DOE names two sites but publishes no design, footprint, or capacity for either; splitting it would duplicate a record with no site-specific facts. ORNL itself geocodes to 35.9301332, -84.3119307. CONFIRMED ABSENCES as of 2026-09-09: no lessee has been selected, no capacity, investment, footprint or timeline is stated, and applicants — not DOE — are responsible for securing utility interconnection agreements and all permitting. The operator field records DOE as the landowner and solicitor, NOT as the eventual data-center operator, which is unknown. Oak Ridge is one of four federal sites DOE identified for AI infrastructure. Distinct from the existing Kairos Power Hermes 2 record, which is a separate NRC-licensed reactor project at Oak Ridge.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
- U.S. Energy Department Seeks Proposals for AI Data Centers, Energy Projects at Oak Ridge · U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management
- Energy seeks proposals for AI data centers at Oak Ridge · FedScoop
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID doe-oak-ridge-reservation-ai-data-centers-tn. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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