Meta · Gallatin, Tennessee

Meta Gallatin

114MW

The power of 93,000 US homes.

Drawing power since Aug 2026.

H100-equivalents: 100K
Capital cost: $3.3B
Chips: B300
Users: Meta

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This page

Jesse Hawkins, “Meta Gallatin · The AI buildout”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 22 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/buildout/meta-gallatin/. Data: Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

@misc{hawkins2026buildoutmetagallatin,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{Meta Gallatin · The AI buildout}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/buildout/meta-gallatin/}},
  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 · 3 milestones

Every milestone

11 Sep 2023 — Land clearing starts for Building 1.
9 Feb 2026 — Building 1 shell and cooling looks complete, but construction equipment is still seen around cooling and building.
24 Aug 2026 114 MW Building 1 is operational, based on a lack of construction activity around the shell and cooling equipment, and about 6 months passing after structural completion.

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

net generation by fuel · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

Tennessee Valley Authority TVA · balancing authority

Gas 33%
Coal 16%
Nuclear 41%
Wind 0%
Solar 2%
Hydro 7%
Other <1%

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

No new plant is planned in Sumner County

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

In service in Sumner County today: 2.0 GW. Since January 2023: 0 MW added, 0 MW retired. Owners plan to retire 1.9 GW more. A plant in the same county does not mean it feeds the site. Power plants near every AI site.

Sources

selected by Epoch AI

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 Gallatin. 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.