Data Center Atlas
Meta New Albany data center campus (Prometheus)
Partially operational
United States · 1 project · Last reported
Summary
Meta's campus in New Albany, Ohio, where ground was first broken in 2017, is being expanded to host Prometheus, an AI cluster that Meta says delivers more than 1 GW of compute across several buildings. Meta announced Prometheus in July 2025, and it was expected to come online in 2026. Meta planned the campus's energy needs with AEP, behind-the-meter gas plants are being built by Will-Power OH for a Meta affiliate, and Meta signed nuclear power deals in January 2026 tied to the cluster. Drone imagery reported in September 2026 indicated the southern part of the cluster was running while the northern part was not yet energized.
Source record as of 2026-09-16 · Details and sources
The City of New Albany's data-center site, in its version modified on 26 October 2026, lists Meta's New Albany campus as one of 'two active data center sites' and says that in July 2026 the City was notified about periodic noise from 'Meta's New Albany data center campus south of SR-161', reported after a temporary sound wall was removed 'as construction neared completion'; Meta's mitigation includes 'changes to current operations' and 'a temporary sound wall along Morse Road while construction continues'. This government statement, republished in the 26 October version, records Meta's New Albany campus as operating while construction continues, so the record's partially_operational status (Meta's own statement of 19 October 2026) is refreshed with this newer observation of the same status on 26 October 2026, the modification day of the captured version. It does not establish which buildings operate, completion of the remaining construction, capacity or the Prometheus cluster's own extent; operational is not claimed. evidence
City of New Albany, Ohio · published 2026-10-26
Location
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Projects (1)
Meta New Albany data center campus (Prometheus)
Partially operational last observed as of · Authoritative status update
This record reports partially operational as of 2026-09-16. SynMax
Location: New Albany, Ohio, US. City point from OpenStreetMap Nominatim; the cited sources name New Albany but give no site address for the data center buildings. Meta Platforms; Spectrum News 1 (Associated Press)
Use: Ai unspecified
Capacity, investment and other figures
| Measure | Value | Scope | As of | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power capacity | more than 1,000 MW | Planned · Campus · Unspecified | 2026-10-09 | Meta's undated fact sheet, read 2026-10-09, describes over 1 GW of compute capacity for the Prometheus cluster; the January 2026 AP report calls it a 1 GW cluster. Neither says whether this is IT or facility load. | Meta Platforms; Spectrum News 1 (Associated Press) |
| Power capacity | 480 MW | Planned · Phase · Unspecified · Prometheus South | 2026-09-16 | Analyst unit table listing six 80 MW units. IIR Energy, cited for status, lists five of six halls operational; August 2026 imagery showed five halls structurally complete. | SynMax |
| Power capacity | 500 MW | Planned · Phase · Unspecified · Prometheus North | 2026-09-16 | Analyst unit table listing five 100 MW units. August 2026 drone imagery showed the five shells complete but not energized, although IIR Energy lists them as operational. | SynMax |
| Power capacity | 200 MW | Permitted · Phase · Onsite generation · Socrates North gas plant | 2025-09-19 | Behind-the-meter gas plant approved by the Ohio Power Siting Board for the Meta affiliate Sidecat; Williams lists a matching 200 MW Socrates South plant, for 400 MW combined. | Mount Vernon News; Williams Companies |
| Investment | more than 1,500,000,000 USD | Announced · Campus | 2026-10-09 | Meta's cumulative investment figure for the New Albany data center, from its undated fact sheet. | Meta Platforms |
| Jobs construction | 1,200 count | Reported · Campus | 2026-10-09 | Skilled trade workers on site at peak construction, from Meta's undated fact sheet. | Meta Platforms |
| Jobs permanent | more than 300 count | Reported · Campus | 2026-10-09 | Meta Platforms |
Companies and organizations
| Name | Role | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta Platforms | Developer | Meta Platforms; Spectrum News 1 (Associated Press) | |
| American Electric Power (AEP) | Utility | Meta says it planned its energy needs with AEP. | Meta Platforms |
| Will-Power OH | Power supplier | Builds and operates behind-the-meter gas plants in New Albany whose output goes to Sidecat, described as a Meta affiliate. | Mount Vernon News; American Public Power Association; Williams Companies |
| Williams Companies | Power supplier | Lists the two 200 MW Socrates gas plants in New Albany as Will-Power projects; its page does not name the customer, but Socrates North is the plant approved to serve the Meta affiliate. | Williams Companies |
| Vistra | Power supplier | 20-year nuclear power purchase agreements announced in January 2026 as supporting Prometheus; the plants stay connected to the wider grid. | Spectrum News 1 (Associated Press) |
| TerraPower | Power supplier | Agreement to fund new Natrium reactor units, with first delivery as early as 2032; announced alongside the Prometheus deals. | Spectrum News 1 (Associated Press) |
| Oklo | Power supplier | Agreement to help develop a 1.2 GW power campus in Pike County, Ohio, to support Meta's data centers in the region. | Spectrum News 1 (Associated Press) |
Timeline
| Date | Event | Actual or planned | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Construction started | Actual | Groundbreaking of the original New Albany campus. | Meta Platforms |
| 2025-07 | Expansion announced | Actual | Meta announced the 1 GW Prometheus cluster spanning multiple buildings. | Spectrum News 1 (Associated Press) |
| 2026-06 | Permit approved | Actual | In late June the Ohio Power Siting Board approved a further 250 MW behind-the-meter gas plant with 116 MW of batteries (Socrates the Younger) for the Meta affiliate; the report does not name the data center it serves. | American Public Power Association |
| 2026-08-31 | Other | Actual | Drone flight indicated Prometheus South and its gas plant operating; an August 19 flight showed Prometheus North not yet energized. | SynMax |
| 2026 | Other | Planned | Target for the Prometheus cluster to come online, as reported in January 2026. | Spectrum News 1 (Associated Press) |
Power supply
| Type | Description | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Grid | Meta says it planned the campus's energy needs with AEP and pays the full cost of the energy used. | Meta Platforms |
| Natural gas onsite | Williams lists two 200 MW Will-Power gas plants in New Albany, Socrates North and South, targeting service in the third and fourth quarters of 2026; Socrates North is approved to run behind the meter for a Meta affiliate, and a further 250 MW plant was approved in June 2026. New Albany's mayor said Meta was building two gas plants on its site. Drone imagery in late August 2026 showed the Prometheus South gas plant running and the Prometheus North plant still under construction. | Spectrum News 1; Mount Vernon News; American Public Power Association; Williams Companies; SynMax |
| Battery storage | The 250 MW Socrates the Younger gas plant approved in June 2026 includes 116 MW of battery storage. | American Public Power Association |
| Nuclear | Nuclear agreements with Vistra (more than 2,600 MW from existing plants and uprates), TerraPower and Oklo were announced in January 2026 in support of Prometheus; the existing plants keep supplying the grid. | Spectrum News 1 (Associated Press) |
Meta's fact sheet (s1) is an undated PDF; its embedded file creation date is 2026-09-02. Figures taken only from it carry the date it was read (2026-10-09).
Sources for these details
- Meta New Albany Data Center fact sheet — Meta Platforms; publication date not stated
- Meta lines up massive supply of nuclear power to energize AI data centers — Spectrum News 1 (Associated Press); 2026-01-09 · Archived source
- Meta's next massive build could become the world's first gigawatt-scale data center — Spectrum News 1; 2025-11-17
- Ohio approves new natural gas power plant for data center — Mount Vernon News; 2025-09-19 · Archived source
- Ohio Power Siting Board Approves Construction of Power Plant to Serve Load of Adjacent Data Center — American Public Power Association; 2026-07-07
- Socrates Power Solution Facilities — Williams Companies; publication date not stated
- Drone Imagery Confirms Meta's Prometheus South Operating, Prometheus North Still Under Construction — SynMax; 2026-09-16
- Companies
- Developer: Meta Platforms (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Meta Platforms (unknown scope) evidence
- Utility: American Electric Power (AEP) (unknown scope) evidence
- Power Supplier: Will-Power OH (unknown scope) evidence
- Power Supplier: Will-Power OH (unknown scope) evidence
- Power Supplier: Will-Power OH (unknown scope) evidence
- Power Supplier: Williams Companies (unknown scope) evidence
- Power Supplier: Vistra (unknown scope) evidence
- Power Supplier: TerraPower (unknown scope) evidence
- Power Supplier: Oklo (unknown scope) evidence
Source and location review
- Status source
- City of New Albany, Ohio: data-center information site home page (version modified 26 October 2026) evidence row
City of New Albany, Ohio · published 2026-10-26 · Government record - Locator
- Locality reference only · Compiled location reference · locality evidence
- Source checks
Not reviewed against imagery not_
reviewed
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verificationStatus age at review: 1 days before the data update on 2026-10-27
Location details
- Coordinates
- 40.08120, -82.80880
- Geometry licence
- source-terms-not-recorded
- Use scope
- Locality reference only
- Scope class
- locality
- Authority
- Compiled location reference
- Source entity
- Project
- Method
- imported_reference_point
- Derivation
- imported_reference_point
- Precision scope
- City point from OpenStreetMap Nominatim; the cited sources name New Albany but give no site address for the data center buildings.
- Horizontal uncertainty
Not reported
The source record provides no measured horizontal uncertainty; original coordinate precision and note are preserved.
- Geometry evidence
- f777e6f8
A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.
Evidence
Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.
| Title | Publisher | Roles | Published | Retrieved | Licence | Attribution | Content hash (SHA-256) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of New Albany, Ohio: data-center information site home page (version modified 26 October 2026) Archived copy | City of New Albany, Ohio Government record | Physical status | public-record-source-terms | City of New Albany, Ohio | ad7315984638f31e4f4ca2782ec7c97ef5f3c8049c11f247869854568c9bf4d6Retained source material; see source provenance | ||
| Drone Imagery Confirms Meta's Prometheus South Operating, Prometheus North Still Under Construction Archived copy | SynMax Analyst report | Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Natural Gas Onsite | source-terms-not-recorded | SynMax | 2023647d89426b32ad0f1e133dc9132fc1b381b2fb0a43ee4857049982120badFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Meta lines up massive supply of nuclear power to energize AI data centers Archived copy | Spectrum News 1 (Associated Press) News | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Expansion Announced, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Nuclear, Role: Developer, Role: Power Supplier | source-terms-not-recorded | Spectrum News 1 (Associated Press) | 6b01477fc38b6ed1eff7e8e18a3a181e794e4767134f464df9baaf3fce448d81Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Meta New Albany Data Center fact sheet Archived copy | Meta Platforms Company disclosure | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Construction Started, Power Source: Grid, Role: Developer, Role: Utility | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | Meta Platforms | 8f71e90507f6524299caaea994d2fe3aa53cc42854020c496c490c678f89b324Factual source record; not the publisher page | |
| Meta's next massive build could become the world's first gigawatt-scale data center Archived copy | Spectrum News 1 News | Imported: Record, Power Source: Natural Gas Onsite | source-terms-not-recorded | Spectrum News 1 | c3cb9becef2240956d0efcab35b61ffb3f4c7c3f78402b4054e5609f8cf47b9bFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Meta: New Albany - where Ohio's community spirit meets the frontier of AI Archived copy | Meta Company disclosure | Physical status | all-rights-reserved | Meta Platforms, Inc. | c65eaac3f13bf2c4072eb4cc3a7b58da5f3ec2537ecc1c011afc2297e3a460a4Retained source material; see source provenance | ||
| Ohio approves new natural gas power plant for data center Archived copy | Mount Vernon News News | Imported: Record, Metric: Power Capacity, Power Source: Natural Gas Onsite, Role: Power Supplier | source-terms-not-recorded | Mount Vernon News | 923a238255fe4b832d7dd3cb69901e303f6d6c8920db48e8e62e356ee9f89c2cFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Ohio Power Siting Board Approves Construction of Power Plant to Serve Load of Adjacent Data Center Archived copy | American Public Power Association Trade publication | Imported: Record, Milestone: Permit Approved, Power Source: Battery Storage, Power Source: Natural Gas Onsite, Role: Power Supplier | source-terms-not-recorded | American Public Power Association | ffbbcea90ff427ecdcd7f37d3aeaae32a9511cd2258e84d2c2b0411836fba2a7Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Socrates Power Solution Facilities Archived copy | Williams Companies Company disclosure | Imported: Record, Metric: Power Capacity, Power Source: Natural Gas Onsite, Role: Power Supplier | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | Williams Companies | a486b46bfe34df0a0d23753d2188c9ec3d092f579f6dff4b2a39c21415148146Factual source record; not the publisher page |
Cite this site
Kyars, K. (2026). Meta New Albany data center campus (Prometheus) [site vcc-site-66e95eb80a122bb2ee32]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-66e95eb80a122bb2ee32/
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