Google · New Albany, Ohio

Google New Albany

400MW

The power of 320,000 US homes.

Drawing power since Apr 2024.

Capital cost
$12.6B
Chips
TPU v5e, TPU v5p, TPU v6e
Users
Google DeepMind (unconfirmed)
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Power over time

facility power · 7 milestones
Every milestone
  1. 20 Apr 2024 80 MW Building 1 is operational. Based on ~7 months since roof being completed, and cooling towers being installed sometime within that period. Building 2 roof is complete.
  2. 13 Sep 2024 173 MW Building 2 is operational. Google Earth imagery shows 6 cooling towers installed as of 2024-04-20, and a final 7th unit appeared as of 2024-09-13, with minimal construction around the building. Building 3 roof is also complete.
  3. 1 Jun 2025 267 MW Building 3 is operational, based on all cooling units and tanks installed, minimal construction work around the building. Building 4 still has some work around the cooling towers. Work is underway on Building 5 - some walls and a few backup generators are in place.
  4. 14 Oct 2025 400 MW Building 4 is operational, based on all cooling units and tanks installed, minimal construction work around the building. Building 5 roof is half complete. About half of the backup generators are in place. One cooling tower is partly built.
  5. 18 Jan 2026 400 MW Water vapor from cooling towers is present across Building 1-4, confirming their operation. Building 5 roof is still incomplete, but most backup generators and 5 cooling towers have been installed.
  6. 12 Mar 2026 400 MW Building 5 has more cooling towers installed but not complete, and the roof is almost complete.
  7. 18 May 2026 400 MW Building 5 has all cooling towers installed, and all other components look complete, but there is still light work around the building. Based on that, we estimate 3 more months until operational.

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

  1. Gas 41%
  2. Coal 17%
  3. Nuclear 31%
  4. Wind 4%
  5. Solar 3%
  6. Hydro 2%
  7. Other 3%

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

Owners plan 400 MW of new power in Franklin County, mostly solar

power plants in Franklin County · EIA-860M, September 2026
  1. Flint Storage · 200 MW · Jul 2027 · being built · Flint
  2. Pleasant Prairie Solar Energy LLC Solar · 200 MW · Dec 2026 · being built · Invenergy Services LLC

In service in Franklin County today: 15 MW. Since January 2023: 7 MW added, 3 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
  1. Draft basis of air permit for Google Omaha, a similar data center
  2. 2025 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 New Albany. 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.