Meta · Kuna, Idaho

Meta Kuna

198MW

The power of 160,000 US homes.

Drawing power since Jun 2026.

Capital cost
$5.8B
Chips
B300
Users
Meta
Energy
Idaho Power Company
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Power over time

facility power · 3 milestones
Every milestone
  1. 1 Jul 2022 — Land clearing begins.
  2. 15 Mar 2026 — Building 1 and 2 look complete from outside, with all electrical and cooling equipment installed. Construction has started on 2 smaller buildings to the north. Meta announced the arrival of the first server rack the following week.
  3. 1 Jun 2026 198 MW Building 1 and 2 are operational. The 2nd phase of an offsetting solar array goes online on May 31, 2026. Idaho Public Utilities Comission's approval for this start date notes that "[Meta]’s load is expected to increase so much that it will suffer a capacity deficit in June 2026 if served only by Pleasant Valley Solar 1.1,” A redacted table in the staff comments document suggests the data center's load will continue to increase through August, when it presumably reaches the maximum capacity of both buildings.

Hydro made 45% of the power on this site's grid

net generation by fuel · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

Idaho Power Company IPCO · balancing authority

  1. Gas 25%
  2. Coal 0%
  3. Nuclear 0%
  4. Wind 12%
  5. Solar 14%
  6. Hydro 45%
  7. Other 3%

The grid of the utilities that serve Ada County, ID. 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 Ada County, all solar

power plants in Ada County · EIA-860M, September 2026
  1. Blacks Creek Solar Solar · 400 MW · Jun 2027 · being built · Blacks Creek Energy Center, LLC

In service in Ada County today: 828 MW. Since January 2023: 625 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. Official Pamphlet from Meta
  2. Application for Power Purchase Agreement, Pleasant Valley Solar 1
  3. Application for Power Purchase Agreement, Pleasant Valley Solar 2
  4. Approval to move start date of Solar 2 to May 31, 2026
  5. staff comments
  6. Notice of Application for 3rd PPA (Blacks Creek Energy Center)
  7. Idaho Statesman: Peak construction reached in March 2025
  8. Idaho Statesman: Expected water usage reported in 2022

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 Kuna. 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.