Google · Bristow, Virginia

Google Bristow

286MW

The power of 230,000 US homes.

Drawing power since Apr 2024.

H100-equivalents: 210K
Capital cost: $9.0B
Chips: TPU v5e, TPU v5p, TPU v6e, TPU v7
Users: Google DeepMind

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Jesse Hawkins, “Google Bristow · The AI buildout”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 22 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/buildout/google-bristow/. Data: Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0.

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@misc{hawkins2026buildoutgooglebristow,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{Google Bristow · The AI buildout}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/buildout/google-bristow/}},
  note = {Data: Epoch AI, ``AI data centers'', CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-10-22}
}

The data · Epoch AI

Epoch AI, 'AI data centers'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers' [online resource]. CC BY 4.0.

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Power over time

facility power · 4 milestones

Every milestone

1 Jul 2021 — Land clearing begins.
29 Apr 2024 104 MW Building 1 is operational, based off of colored motion artifacts from cooling towers. Building 2 is undergoing construction.
29 Apr 2025 208 MW Building 2 is operational, based off it being at least 12 months since the roof was complete. Building 3 is finishing construction of cooling towers.
20 May 2026 286 MW Building 3 is operational, based off of colored motion artifacts from cooling towers.

Gas made 41% of the power on this site's grid

net generation by fuel · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

PJM Interconnection, LLC PJM · balancing authority

Gas 41%
Coal 17%
Nuclear 31%
Wind 4%
Solar 3%
Hydro 2%
Other 3%

The grid of the utilities that serve Prince William County, VA. Each grid is a balancing authority. Generation only; imports are excluded. Every grid behind an AI site.

Owners plan 60 MW of new power in Prince William County, all storage

power plants in Prince William County · EIA-860M, September 2026

Bethlehem Energy Center, LLC - (VA) Storage · 20 MW · Dec 2026 · being built · East Point Energy, LLC
Railroad Energy Center, LLC Storage · 20 MW · Dec 2026 · being built · East Point Energy, LLC
Reid Energy Center, LLC Storage · 20 MW · Dec 2026 · being built · East Point Energy, LLC

In service in Prince William County today: 786 MW. Since January 2023: 2 MW added, 7 MW retired. A plant in the same county does not mean it feeds the site. Power plants near every AI site.

Sources

selected by Epoch AI

Google Environmental Report

Data: Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 22 Oct 2026. Facility power adds cooling and other overhead to the IT power the servers draw. Placed at the centre of Bristow. Grid: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930), public domain, retrieved 16 Oct 2026; utilities by county from Form EIA-861 and the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, public domain. Power plants: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M, public domain, inventory as of September 2026. All sources.