Meta · Bowling Green, Ohio

Meta Bowling Green

570MW projected

The power of 460,000 US homes, once built.

Under construction. Projected to draw 570 MW by Jan 2028.

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Power over time

facility power · 6 milestones
Every milestone
  1. 1 Nov 2024 — Land clearing begins.
  2. 14 Feb 2026 — Buildings 1 and 2 under construction. Building 1's chillers are almost all in place, while only half of Building 2's are. Optimus substation, which is the substation on site, and the expansion of Dowling Substation, an existing substation to the northeast of the data center, appear complete.
  3. 30 Jul 2026 — Roofs of Buildings 1 and 2 are more than halfway complete. All chillers for both buildings are visible. Construction on Buildings 3 and 4 has begun, with outlines laid. Construction on the Apollo Power Generation Project (a BTM power plant built just to the east of the data center) is in progress, with foundations poured and generation equipment being set in place.
  4. 1 Feb 2027 · projected 117 MW Building 1 is operational, based on a 5 month extrapolation from its roof completion date.
  5. 1 Apr 2027 · projected 220 MW Building 2 is operational, based on construction progress as of Sep 2026 and foundations being laid around 2 months after Building 1.
  6. 1 Jan 2028 · projected 570 MW Buildings 3 and 4 are operational, based on their construction starting 11 months after Building 1. We assume they are powered by the 350 MW Apollo Power Generation Project.

Every step Epoch planned here on 2 Oct 2026 is still on plan. Planned against reached

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 Wood County, OH. Each grid is a balancing authority. Generation only; imports are excluded. Every grid behind an AI site.

Owners plan 50 MW of new power in Wood County, all solar

power plants in Wood County · EIA-860M, September 2026
  1. Juliet Energy Project, LLC Solar · 50 MW · Oct 2026 · being built · Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, LLC

In service in Wood County today: 915 MW. Since January 2023: 15 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
  1. Meta letter to Middleton Township
  2. Construction notice for new transmission lines to data center substation
  3. Ohio Power Siting Board announcement
  4. Apollo Power Generation Project Letter of Notice Appendix A, with a project timeline

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 Bowling Green. 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.