Data center campus
Meta Prometheus Data Center (New Albany)
Meta Prometheus Data Center is an announced AI data center campus. 1 GW of capacity has been announced; 0.50 GW is energized. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.
Partially energized · Private land · PJM · New Albany, Ohio, United States
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced-to-energized gap: 0.50 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.
| Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 1 GW | 2026-05-01 | claimed | journalist report |
| Energized | 0.50 GW | 2026-05-01 | reported | journalist report |
The deal
- developer
- Meta Platforms · Owner-operator; New Albany campus.
- tenant
- Meta Platforms · Self-tenant; AI supercluster compute.
- utility
- AEP Ohio · Grid interconnection utility.
- grid operator
- PJM · AEP Ohio operates within PJM Interconnection.
- construction
- Williams Companies · Building the Socrates South behind-the-meter gas facility.
- utility
- Vistra / Constellation / Oklo / TerraPower · Nuclear power counterparties (PPAs and future SMR/advanced-reactor deals).
Power
- Power source
- mixed
- Grid operator
- PJM
- Interconnection
Williams Socrates South (behind-the-meter gas), 0.20 GW gas, Under construction. ~307.5 MW nameplate, ~258 MW at design ambient, 200 MW firm; construction began June 2025, targeted before end of 2026.
Vistra Ohio nuclear PPA, 2.10 GW nuclear, Financed. Meta to buy >2.1 GW from two Vistra nuclear plants in Ohio plus expansions; also TerraPower, Oklo (Aurora Powerhouse, Pike County) and Constellation agreements.
Contracted renewables (Ohio solar / Indiana wind), 0.80 GW solar storage, Financed. Over 800 MW of renewable energy contracted.
Financial structure
- Meta New Albany campus investment (to date)
- $1.5B. Cumulative since breaking ground in 2017; understates full Prometheus buildout. journalist report
Sources
- Meta's Prometheus and Google's Central Ohio Cluster: An AI Data Center Primer · MeasuredAI
- Meet Prometheus: World's highest capacity data center slated to open in Ohio in 2026 · NBC4 WCMH-TV
- Meta will use nuclear power for its New Albany A.I. data center · NBC4 WCMH-TV
d7c13110-4def-4903-9828-a30b405f3afb · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.