Meta · Springfield, Nebraska

Meta Sarpy

105MW

The power of 85,000 US homes.

Drawing power since Aug 2026.

H100-equivalents: 92K
Capital cost: $3.0B
Chips: B300
Users: Meta

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

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@misc{hawkins2026buildoutmetasarpy,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{Meta Sarpy · The AI buildout}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/buildout/meta-sarpy/}},
  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

1 Aug 2024 — Building 1 grading underway.
4 May 2026 — Building 1 shell, electrical and cooling equipment looks complete, with minimal construction work, so we expect it to be operational within 3 months.
2 Aug 2026 105 MW Building 1 is operational (estimate).

Wind made 37% of the power on this site's grid

net generation by fuel · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

Southwest Power Pool SWPP · balancing authority

Gas 27%
Coal 26%
Nuclear 5%
Wind 37%
Solar 2%
Hydro 3%
Other <1%

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

Owners plan 272 MW of new power in Sarpy County, all gas

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

Turtle Creek Gas · 264 MW · Aug 2028 · proposed · Omaha Public Power District
Papillion Creek Wastewater Gas · 8 MW · Nov 2026 · being built · City of Omaha - (NE)

In service in Sarpy County today: 866 MW. Since January 2023: 528 MW added, 2 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

Meta Sarpy info sheet (PDF)

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 Springfield. 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.