Meta · Aiken, South Carolina

Meta Aiken

90MW

The power of 73,000 US homes.

Drawing power since Aug 2026. Projected to reach 168 MW by Nov 2026.

Capital cost
$2.6B
Chips
B300
Users
Meta
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Power over time

facility power · 4 milestones
Every milestone
  1. 30 May 2024 — Land clearing begins
  2. 8 Apr 2026 — Buildings 1 and 2 are nearly complete, but there's still some equipment strewn around the site. We expect around 3 more months needed for commissioning and server installation.
  3. 7 Aug 2026 90 MW Building 1 is confirmed operational via drone imagery with 8/9 group of coolers with spinning fans. Imagery also confirms all cooling and power infrastructure in place for Building 2.
  4. 5 Nov 2026 · projected 168 MW Building 2 is operational assuming a 3 month lag compared to Building 1.

Gas and coal lead the two grids that serve Aiken County

net generation by fuel · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

Dominion Energy South Carolina SCEG · balancing authority

  1. Gas 45%
  2. Coal 18%
  3. Nuclear 26%
  4. Wind 0%
  5. Solar 9%
  6. Hydro 2%
  7. Other <1%

South Carolina Public Service Authority SC · balancing authority

  1. Gas 25%
  2. Coal 65%
  3. Nuclear 0%
  4. Wind 0%
  5. Solar 5%
  6. Hydro 1%
  7. Other 3%

The utilities that serve Aiken County, SC, report to 2 grids; the data does not show which one feeds the site. Each grid is a balancing authority. Generation only; imports are excluded. Every grid behind an AI site.

No new plant is planned in Aiken County

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

In service in Aiken County today: 855 MW. Since January 2023: 0 MW added, 0 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. Meta Introduction to the Aiken Project
  2. DPR Construction project page

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 Aiken. 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.