This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Meta
- Address and locality
- New Albany · Licking County · Ohio
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 8 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000948
What the source record says
Baxtel reports campus as partially operational in 2026 with future phases planned; overall 1 GW build-out still in progress. Site address 1500 Beech Rd NW cited in permit filings but not confirmed from independently accessible sources this session. Nuclear PPA claims partially corroborated (Vistra/Oklo via SEC filings and news; TerraPower unconfirmed). On-site gas generation capacity removed pending accessible source confirmation. County listed as Licking — consistent with Beech Road corridor at Licking/Franklin county boundary per stopohiodatacenters.org. OPSB approved a 250 MW behind-the-meter gas plant ("Socrates the Younger," Will-Power OH, LLC) on 109 acres at Clover Valley Rd & Harrison Rd NW, New Albany, with the primary consumer named as Sidecat LLC, a Meta affiliate — corroborating the on-site generation previously removed pending an accessible source, and revising the figure from an unconfirmed 200 MW to 250 MW. This is the plant's nameplate generation, not IT load; the record's capacityMw (1,000 MW planned) is unchanged.
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
- 2025-11 · reported under construction
Meta publicly confirms Prometheus at New Albany; described as world's first planned 1 GW data center; expected operational 2026. Baxtel (July 2026) reports some phases already operational with future phases planned — overall 1 GW build-out still under construction.
Sources and attribution
- World's first gigawatt-scale data center coming to Ohio · Spectrum News 1
- Meta will use nuclear power for its New Albany A.I. data center · NBC4 WCMH-TV
- Meta: Prometheus Campus Data Center · Baxtel
- Ohio has committed at least $2.3 billion in tax breaks for data centers · Signal Ohio
- Ohio regulators approve 250-megawatt power plant to fuel New Albany Meta data center · Scioto Post
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID meta-prometheus-new-albany-oh. 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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