The Tape · On the globe

See where the day’s AI and chip news lands

On Sunday 18 October 2026, 1 post or filing from 1 company lit 8 AI campuses in 1 country.

Posts and filings: 1
Campuses: 8
Chip plants: 0

A campus or plant of a company in the day's news; its area is the count of the day's posts and filings that name its owner or a user
Planned, or not yet drawing power

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Jesse Hawkins, “The Tape on the globe, Sunday 18 October 2026”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 12 Nov 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/tape/globe/2026-10-18/. Data: the Tape's posts and filings, put on Epoch AI's AI data centers (CC BY 4.0) and Wikipedia's chip plants (CC BY-SA 4.0) by the companies they name; places © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

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@misc{hawkins2026tapeglobe20261018,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{The Tape on the globe, Sunday 18 October 2026}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/tape/globe/2026-10-18/}},
  note = {Data: the Tape's posts and filings, put on Epoch AI's AI data centers (CC BY 4.0) and Wikipedia's chip plants (CC BY-SA 4.0) by the companies they name; places © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, retrieved 2026-11-12}
}

Campuses · 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.

Chip plants · Wikipedia

Wikipedia contributors, "List of semiconductor fabrication plants", Wikipedia, revision 1379416921 of 2026-10-09. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants&oldid=1379416921. CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places · OpenStreetMap

© OpenStreetMap contributors, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. Open Database License (ODbL).

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Sunday 18 October 2026 · times in UTC

Anthropic 8 places
1. 18 Oct Investing in the public benefit Labs and press

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Place	Kind	Where	Named by	Events on the Tape
Amazon Madison Mega Site	AI campus	Canton, Mississippi, United States	Anthropic	1
Amazon Ridgeland	AI campus	Ridgeland, Mississippi, United States	Anthropic	1
Anthropic Barber Lake	AI campus, planned	Colorado City, Texas, United States	Anthropic	1
Anthropic Lake Mariner	AI campus	Barker, New York, United States	Anthropic	1
Anthropic-Amazon New Carlisle	AI campus	New Carlisle, Indiana, United States	Anthropic	1
AWS Berwick	AI campus	Berwick, Pennsylvania, United States	Anthropic	1
Colossus 1	AI campus	Memphis, Tennessee, United States	Anthropic	1
Colossus 2	AI campus	Memphis, Tennessee, United States	Anthropic	1

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8 events from papers, Hacker News, researchers, the trade press and government notices, which name no one company.

Sources

globe.csv tape.csv Every dataset → Status → Glossary →

Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 22 Oct 2026: each campus, its owner and its users.
Wikipedia, “List of semiconductor fabrication plants”, revision 1379416921, CC BY-SA 4.0: each chip plant and its owner. Anything derived from this list (this globe, globe.csv and its share cards) is published under CC BY-SA 4.0 in turn. The rest of the site is not derived from it.
Each lab's, company's and writer's own feed or sitemap. Title, link and time of each post. No article text is kept. titles and links only.