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Changes at the projects built for artificial intelligence: new campuses, named AI tenants and the announcements that start them. 124 dated changes at 26 tracked projects in 14 states, newest first, each with the source it came from. Latest entry: Nov 1, 2026.
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| Date | What changed | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2026 | Epoch AI estimates all 8 buildings (7-8 estimated) operational, for 824 MW of IT power (Epoch AI estimate) Epoch AI | Stargate Abilene Abilene, Taylor County, TX · Operating |
| Oct 21, 2026 | Effingham County commissioners vote unanimously to contract Charles Abbott Associates for Phase 1 plan review, inspection and permitting services; the chairman recuses because he works for Georgia Power Savannah Business Journal | Project Camellia Rincon, Effingham County, GA · Proposed |
| Sep 24, 2026 | Oracle sends developer Blue Owl Capital a force-majeure notice after a natural-gas pipeline meant to supply the project's power is delayed to February 2027 following New Mexico State Land Office permit denials; both companies say it does not change their commitment to the project SiliconANGLE | Project Jupiter Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County, NM · Under construction |
| Sep 22, 2026 | St. Joseph County Council advances, on a 6-3 vote, a resolution that would bar new hyperscale data centers from the county ABC57 | Project Rainier (AWS New Carlisle campus) New Carlisle, St. Joseph County, IN · Operating |
| Sep 21, 2026 | One Hundred Miles and five residents sue the Effingham IDA and Octans GA alleging open-government law violations WTOC | Project Camellia Rincon, Effingham County, GA · Proposed |
| Sep 17, 2026 | NM Supreme Court denies petitions and lifts stay KVIA | Project Jupiter Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County, NM · Under construction |
| Sep 16, 2026 | Coastal Regional Commission's full DRI report released; county site plan consideration postponed at developer request WTOC | Project Camellia Rincon, Effingham County, GA · Proposed |
| Sep 14, 2026 | ATC refiles its application for the grid upgrades serving the campus, dropping a Trenton-Saukville line segment and restarting the PSC's six-month review Wisconsin Watch | Port Washington (Lighthouse) Data Center Campus Port Washington, Ozaukee County, WI · Under construction |
| Sep 10, 2026 | On Oracle's Q1 FY2027 earnings call, its CEO said 6 of the 8 Abilene buildings, 618 MW or 75% of total capacity, had been delivered to the customer, and that Oracle delivered about 131,000 GPUs there in the quarter The Motley Fool | Stargate Abilene Abilene, Taylor County, TX · Operating |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Attorney General Raúl Torrez files responses backing emergency petitions New Mexico Department of Justice | Project Jupiter Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County, NM · Under construction |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Satellite imagery shows Buildings 1-5 shells complete and roofed Epoch AI | Vantage Frontier Campus Albany, Shackelford County, TX · Under construction |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Three Effingham County residents sue in Effingham County Superior Court to throw out Ordinance 2026-352, the zoning change that paved the way for the project; the Effingham Herald reports the suit does not ask the court to stop Project Camellia Effingham Herald | Project Camellia Rincon, Effingham County, GA · Proposed |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Chamber panel addresses resident concerns over housing, power, water and noise KACU | Stargate Abilene Abilene, Taylor County, TX · Operating |
| Aug 23, 2026 | NM Supreme Court stays air-permit proceeding and well drilling KVIA | Project Jupiter Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County, NM · Under construction |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Oracle moves to voluntarily drop its Ozaukee County Circuit Court lawsuit challenging the Wisconsin PSC's credit rating requirements for data center developers Wisconsin Watch | Port Washington (Lighthouse) Data Center Campus Port Washington, Ozaukee County, WI · Under construction |
| Aug 17, 2026 | OpenAI announces it has joined the project under a 20-year lease, with NVIDIA investing $1.5 billion OpenAI | PORTS-Pike Technology Campus Piketon, Pike County, OH · Under construction |
| Aug 10, 2026 | Council Republicans propose asking Amazon for $7 million; Amazon says it is not interested in revisiting the abatement WVPE | Project Rainier (AWS New Carlisle campus) New Carlisle, St. Joseph County, IN · Operating |
| Aug 10, 2026 | Nessel and environmental groups file initial briefs in consolidated appeal Michigan Advance | Saline Township Stargate Data Center Saline Township, Washtenaw County, MI · Under construction |
| Aug 7, 2026 | PSC requires ATC to restart its application for the $1.3B+ transmission line and five substations serving the campus Wisconsin Watch | Port Washington (Lighthouse) Data Center Campus Port Washington, Ozaukee County, WI · Under construction |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Effingham County commissioners approve Ordinance 2026-352 permitting data centers in industrial zones Effingham Herald | Project Camellia Rincon, Effingham County, GA · Proposed |
| Aug 2026 | Building 12 operating, per Epoch AI Epoch AI | Meta Prometheus New Albany, Franklin and Licking counties, OH · Operating |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Mississippi DEQ sets retirement schedule for 69 temporary turbines at the Southaven plant (Aug. 18, 2026 to July 14, 2027), allowing 13 to run past the original deadline Mississippi Today | xAI Colossus 2 Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Under construction |
| Jul 29, 2026 | DOE announces Brookfield and NextEra as partners for a 1.8 GW AI campus with new generation and storage at the Paducah Site U.S. Department of Energy | Paducah Site AI campus Paducah, McCracken County, KY · Proposed |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Oracle says Bloom fuel cells will power campus; ~700 New Mexicans working onsite Oracle | Project Jupiter Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County, NM · Under construction |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Development of Regional Impact (DRI) form submitted to state The Current | Project Camellia Rincon, Effingham County, GA · Proposed |
| Jul 23, 2026 | Nearly 1,000 people attend public open house in Rincon, most opposing The Current | Project Camellia Rincon, Effingham County, GA · Proposed |
| Jul 22, 2026 | OpenAI publicly announces Project Camellia OpenAI | Project Camellia Rincon, Effingham County, GA · Proposed |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Effingham County Industrial Development Authority signs a memorandum of understanding with OpenAI affiliate Octans GA, LLC WTOC | Project Camellia Rincon, Effingham County, GA · Proposed |
| Jul 2026 | CB-3 delivered, bringing AI capacity online to 102 MW TeraWulf | Lake Mariner Somerset, Niagara County, NY · Operating |
| Jul 2026 | Oracle credit rating falls to BBB-; PSC rejects We Energies request to reconsider collateral rules; Oracle challenges rules in Ozaukee County Circuit Court Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service | Port Washington (Lighthouse) Data Center Campus Port Washington, Ozaukee County, WI · Under construction |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Hyperscale Data announces a 20 MW AI compute agreement with an unnamed California neocloud provider WWMT | Hyperscale Data Dowagiac Campus Dowagiac, Cass County, MI · Operating |
| Jun 23, 2026 | Calvert County primary election, in which voters push back against hyperscale data centers Maryland Matters | Calvert Technology Center Lusby, Calvert County, MD · Cancelled |
| Jun 19, 2026 | Oracle files petition in Ozaukee County Circuit Court seeking review of the PSC's data center tariff decision Ozaukee County Circuit Court (via WPR) | Port Washington (Lighthouse) Data Center Campus Port Washington, Ozaukee County, WI · Under construction |
| Jun 15, 2026 | West Feliciana Parish Council and Industrial Development Board accept an agreement for a $10 million PILOT prepayment from Hut 8 due July 1, 2026 WBRZ | Hut 8 River Bend Campus St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, LA · Under construction |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Justice Department files motion to intervene and seek dismissal of the NAACP Clean Air Act lawsuit. Lawyer Monthly | xAI Colossus 2 Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Under construction |
| Jun 12, 2026 | DNR issues air construction and operation permits for 45 diesel emergency generators Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | Port Washington (Lighthouse) Data Center Campus Port Washington, Ozaukee County, WI · Under construction |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Southaven residents file a federal class action against xAI and MZX Tech over turbine noise. Mississippi Today | xAI Colossus 2 Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Under construction |
| Jun 3, 2026 | Amazon holds ribbon-cutting for campus administration building WVPE | Project Rainier (AWS New Carlisle campus) New Carlisle, St. Joseph County, IN · Operating |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Partners and Gov. Whitmer celebrate construction; first building nearing completion Oracle | Saline Township Stargate Data Center Saline Township, Washtenaw County, MI · Under construction |
| Jun 2026 | Four Republican council members ask Amazon to voluntarily return part of its tax break WVPE | Project Rainier (AWS New Carlisle campus) New Carlisle, St. Joseph County, IN · Operating |
| May 28, 2026 | IREN announces NVIDIA partnership on AI-ready design; about 300 construction workers on site KTXS | IREN Sweetwater data center campus Sweetwater, Fisher County, TX · Under construction |
| May 28, 2026 | Permit filed with Ohio EPA covering wetlands and stream impacts on private land WOUB Public Media | PORTS-Pike Technology Campus Piketon, Pike County, OH · Under construction |
| May 27, 2026 | An AI-generated flyer circulating on Long Island sparks confusion and concern about a possible Brookhaven data center proposal News 12 Long Island | WF Industrial Yaphank Data Center Yaphank, Suffolk County, NY · Proposed |
| May 26, 2026 | News12 reports an AI-generated flyer sparking concern over a possible Brookhaven data center proposal. News 12 Long Island | WF Industrial Yaphank Data Center Yaphank, Suffolk County, NY · Proposed |
| May 23, 2026 | Buildings 3-4 become operational, bringing IT power to 412 MW at 4 buildings (Epoch AI estimate from satellite analysis) Epoch AI | Stargate Abilene Abilene, Taylor County, TX · Operating |
| May 6, 2026 | Anthropic announces an agreement with SpaceX to use all of the compute capacity at Colossus 1, which it says adds more than 300 MW and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs; FOX13 Memphis reports the same agreement Anthropic | xAI Colossus Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Operating |
| May 2026 | Tent buildings 7-11 operating, per Epoch AI Epoch AI | Meta Prometheus New Albany, Franklin and Licking counties, OH · Operating |
| Apr 28, 2026 | Financing secured (Related Digital, Blackstone-affiliated funds, PIMCO-managed accounts) CBS Detroit | Saline Township Stargate Data Center Saline Township, Washtenaw County, MI · Under construction |
| Apr 22, 2026 | Filing for 548,950 sq ft Freebird Phase 1 reported DCD | Stargate Milam County Burlington, Milam County, TX · Under construction |
| Apr 17, 2026 | AG Dana Nessel appeals MPSC approval to Michigan Court of Appeals Michigan Department of Attorney General | Saline Township Stargate Data Center Saline Township, Washtenaw County, MI · Under construction |
| Apr 17, 2026 | Epoch AI review reports land cleared but no large-scale data center construction visible Epoch AI | Stargate Lordstown Lordstown, Trumbull County, OH · Under construction |
| Apr 14, 2026 | DNR public hearing on air permit (comment period Mar. 3-Apr. 14) Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | Port Washington (Lighthouse) Data Center Campus Port Washington, Ozaukee County, WI · Under construction |
| Apr 14, 2026 | County Commission orders review of developer statements, including on closed-loop cooling and water Doña Ana County | Project Jupiter Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County, NM · Under construction |
| Apr 14, 2026 | NAACP, represented by SELC and Earthjustice, sues xAI and its subsidiary MZX Tech under the Clean Air Act over gas turbines run at the Southaven plant before an air permit; MDEQ had granted a permit for 27 turbines in March 2026. The plant powers Colossus 2. DOJ moved in June 2026 to intervene on the company's side WLBT | xAI Colossus 2 Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Under construction |
| Apr 7, 2026 | Port Washington voters approve a referendum requiring voter approval of future large TIDs; it does not affect the TID already approved for the data center WUWM | Port Washington (Lighthouse) Data Center Campus Port Washington, Ozaukee County, WI · Under construction |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Local press reports that a zoning map amendment application for a hyperscale data center has been submitted, seeking to change about 2,080 acres from agricultural to industrial use Maysville Online | Meta Maysville campus Maysville, Mason County, KY · Approved |
| Mar 20, 2026 | DOE, SoftBank and SB Energy announce 10 GW data center campus and 9.2 GW gas generation at the Portsmouth site U.S. Department of Energy | PORTS-Pike Technology Campus Piketon, Pike County, OH · Under construction |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Mississippi DEQ board approves 41 turbines (1.2 GW) to power Colossus 2 and planned Colossus 3 DatacenterDynamics | xAI Colossus 2 Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Under construction |
| Mar 5, 2026 | Lancium and Crusoe brief Abilene leaders; construction expected to run through Q1 2027 KTXS | Stargate Abilene Abilene, Taylor County, TX · Operating |
| Mar 3, 2026 | Permit filed for $659.3M, four-story building adjacent to Colossus 2 Action News 5 | xAI Colossus 2 Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Under construction |
| Mar 2026 | Groundbreaking ceremony held WOUB Public Media | PORTS-Pike Technology Campus Piketon, Pike County, OH · Under construction |
| Mar 2026 | Phase 1 reported topped out DCD | Stargate Milam County Burlington, Milam County, TX · Under construction |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Washtenaw County judge denies a resident's motion to intervene in the consent judgment. Planet Detroit | Saline Township Stargate Data Center Saline Township, Washtenaw County, MI · Under construction |
| Jan 28, 2026 | Residents file a mandamus complaint in Washtenaw County Circuit Court alleging the Zoning Board of Appeals failed to hold a required hearing on a data center permit. Planet Detroit | Saline Township Stargate Data Center Saline Township, Washtenaw County, MI · Under construction |
| Jan 27, 2026 | The Department of Energy ordered the data center to cut 50 MW from the grid; backup diesel generators ran and cold weather disrupted pollution controls on five of them InkFreeNews.com (Indianapolis Star / Notre Dame Gallivan Program) | Project Rainier (AWS New Carlisle campus) New Carlisle, St. Joseph County, IN · Operating |
| Jan 16, 2026 | EGLE issues a wetlands permit allowing a stream disturbance, culvert and three stormwater structures. Planet Detroit | Saline Township Stargate Data Center Saline Township, Washtenaw County, MI · Under construction |
| Jan 14, 2026 | Application filed with Mississippi regulators for 41-turbine permit Southern Environmental Law Center | xAI Colossus 2 Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Under construction |
| Jan 13, 2026 | EGLE issues the air quality permit for 14 diesel backup generators and a diesel firewater pump. Planet Detroit | Saline Township Stargate Data Center Saline Township, Washtenaw County, MI · Under construction |
| Jan 2026 | Buildings 2-6 operating, per Epoch AI Epoch AI | Meta Prometheus New Albany, Franklin and Licking counties, OH · Operating |
| Jan 2026 | OpenAI and SoftBank each invest $500M in SB Energy, which will build and operate the site DCD | Stargate Milam County Burlington, Milam County, TX · Under construction |
| Jan 2026 | Steel framing begins, per Epoch AI Epoch AI | Vantage Frontier Campus Albany, Shackelford County, TX · Under construction |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Parish president says parish permitting is complete; construction already under way 10/12 Industry Report | Hut 8 River Bend Campus St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, LA · Under construction |
| Dec 18, 2025 | MPSC approves DTE contracts with Oracle subsidiary Green Chile Ventures, with conditions Michigan Public Service Commission | Saline Township Stargate Data Center Saline Township, Washtenaw County, MI · Under construction |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Hut 8 signs 15-year, 245 MW lease with Fluidstack; state and Entergy announce $10 billion project Louisiana Economic Development | Hut 8 River Bend Campus St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, LA · Under construction |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Groundbreaking held as construction begins BizTimes Milwaukee | Port Washington (Lighthouse) Data Center Campus Port Washington, Ozaukee County, WI · Under construction |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Vantage holds groundbreaking ceremony DCD | Vantage Frontier Campus Albany, Shackelford County, TX · Under construction |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Memphis and Shelby County Air Pollution Control Board dismisses appeals of the turbine permit as moot Action News 5 | xAI Colossus Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Operating |
| Dec 11, 2025 | DNR issues WEPA compliance determination, wetland exemptions and stormwater coverage Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | Port Washington (Lighthouse) Data Center Campus Port Washington, Ozaukee County, WI · Under construction |
| Dec 2025 | Global AI buys 438-acre former Carestream property for $15.6 million KUNC | Global AI Data Center Windsor, Weld County, CO · Approved |
| Nov 12, 2025 | Microsoft publicly unveils Fairwater Atlanta as part of its AI superfactory Microsoft | Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta Fayetteville, Fayette County, GA · Operating |
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