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The Largest AI Data Centers in the World by Power Capacity

Ranked by estimated current IT power in megawatts, using Epoch AI's Frontier Data Centers hub as of September 2026. Only capacity that is already built counts here — planned and under-construction expansions are not mixed in.

Video thumbnail for Colossus 2, the AI data center near Memphis with the highest estimated current power capacity

Pictured: video thumbnail for Colossus 2, the Memphis-area AI data center, #1 with about 946 MW of current IT power.

Rank Data center Current IT power Owner Location Primary user Status
1Colossus 2946 MWSpaceXAIMemphis, Tennessee, USASpaceXAI, Anthropic, CursorOperational
2Anthropic-Amazon New Carlisle910 MWAmazonNew Carlisle, Indiana, USAAnthropicOperational
3Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta636 MWMicrosoftFayetteville, Georgia, USAOpenAI, MicrosoftOperational
4Meta Prometheus471 MWMetaNew Albany, Ohio, USAMetaOperational
5Google New Albany453 MWGoogleNew Albany, Ohio, USAGoogleOperational
6OpenAI Stargate Abilene421 MWOracleAbilene, Texas, USAOpenAIOperational
7Microsoft Fairwater Wisconsin369 MWMicrosoftMount Pleasant, Wisconsin, USAOpenAI, MicrosoftOperational
8Google Pryor (North)368 MWGooglePryor, Oklahoma, USAGoogleOperational
9Colossus 1340 MWSpaceXAIMemphis, Tennessee, USAAnthropicOperational
10Google Columbus303 MWGoogleColumbus, Ohio, USAGoogleOperational

Basis and caveats: ranked by estimated current IT power (megawatts of power the facility can already draw for computing equipment) from Epoch AI's Frontier Data Centers hub, as of September 2026. Epoch builds these estimates from satellite imagery, permits, cooling equipment and company disclosures, so they are estimates, and the hub updates roughly monthly — figures and even the order can shift. All ten entries are operational today; sites still being built (for example Microsoft Fairwater Wisconsin's planned 2,263 MW end state, or Meta Hyperion) are ranked only by what is already running. Owners follow Epoch's listings; for some sites the user is Epoch's best estimate rather than a confirmed customer.[1][2][3]

The Top 10

#1

Colossus 2 — 946 MW

Epoch counts Colossus 2 as the largest AI data center on Earth today, hosting roughly 1.1 million H100-equivalents of compute. Its power comes in part from a repurposed energy plant across the state line in Southaven, Mississippi, where 19 natural gas turbines offering more than 500 MW were deployed between late March and early May 2026. Epoch projects it to reach about 1,531 MW by Q1 2027.[2][4]

#2

Anthropic-Amazon New Carlisle — 910 MW

Part of Amazon's Project Rainier, this campus was brought online in October 2025 with roughly 500,000 of Amazon's own Trainium2 chips devoted to Anthropic. Its 32 planned buildings are designed to draw about 2.2 GW from the grid, and Epoch projects 1,925 MW of IT power by 2028. It forgoes external cooling infrastructure in favor of direct air-based cooling.[2][5]

#3

Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta — 636 MW

Microsoft's second Fairwater site began operating in October 2025 and is linked by a dedicated fiber network to its Wisconsin sibling in what the company calls an “AI superfactory.” Because Atlanta's grid is reliable, Microsoft skipped on-site generators and UPS batteries, and the two-story building packs GB200 and GB300 GPUs into liquid-cooled racks.[2][6]

#4

Meta Prometheus — 471 MW

Meta's first gigawatt-class “supercluster” is unusual for its ad hoc construction: a patchwork of weatherproof tents, colocation facilities and conventional buildings spread across the New Albany Business Park. Meta has signed nuclear power deals to feed it, and Epoch projects it to roughly double to about 1,022 MW by 2028. (One Epoch ranking snapshot showed 496 MW; its site page currently reads 471 MW.)[2][7]

#5

Google New Albany — 453 MW

Google's New Albany campus shares a business park with Meta's Prometheus, making that corner of central Ohio one of the densest concentrations of AI computing anywhere. Epoch lists it as running Google's own TPU chips, from the v5e generation up to the newest v7.[2][8]

#6

OpenAI Stargate Abilene — 421 MW

The flagship site of the $500 billion Stargate program, built by Oracle for OpenAI, hosts an estimated 509,000 H100-equivalents. It is the fastest riser among the entries: Epoch projects it to roughly double to about 843 MW by Q4 2026, which would lift it well up this list.[2][9]

#7

Microsoft Fairwater Wisconsin — 369 MW

Microsoft announced on June 23, 2026 that its Mount Pleasant campus is fully operational. Its current 369 MW is just the start: Epoch's projection for the planned expansion is about 2,263 MW by Q2 2028, the largest end state of any site it tracks.[2][6]

#8

Google Pryor (North) — 368 MW

Google has run a data center in Pryor, Mayes County, Oklahoma since 2007. In August 2025 it announced a $9 billion Oklahoma investment that includes expanding the Pryor site, and Epoch now estimates the north campus at 368 MW — just one megawatt behind Fairwater Wisconsin.[2][10]

#9

Colossus 1 — 340 MW

The original Memphis cluster had 100,000 H100 GPUs online by September 2024, built in 122 days, then doubled in 92 days. It now holds a mix of roughly 150,000 H100, 50,000 H200 and 30,000 GB200 GPUs, and Epoch lists Anthropic as its user.[2][4]

#10

Google Columbus — 303 MW

Part of Google's multi-campus central Ohio cluster, the Columbus site runs TPUs across several generations, from v5 to v7. Epoch projects it to grow to about 386 MW by Q3 2027, and Google has announced further data centers in the Columbus area.[2][8]

AI Data Centers Infrastructure Energy

Sources

  1. Epoch AI, "Largest AI data centers ranked by power capacity, 2026" (Frontier Data Centers hub, as of September 2026) — https://epoch.ai/graphs/largest-ai-data-centers-by-power-capacity
  2. Epoch AI, "AI data centers directory" — per-site pages for each entry (current and projected IT power, owner, user) — https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers/directory
  3. Epoch AI, "AI data centers documentation" (methodology: satellite imagery, permits, cooling equipment) — https://epoch.ai/data/data-centers-documentation/methodology
  4. Data Center Dynamics, "xAI deploys 19 natural gas turbines at Colossus 2 data center in Southaven, Mississippi" — datacenterdynamics.com; Introl, "xAI's Memphis Colossus" — introl.com
  5. Measured AI, "AWS New Carlisle Data Center Campus: Project Rainier" — measuredai.substack.com; WSBT, "Amazon's 'Project Rainier' starts operations in New Carlisle" — wsbt.com
  6. Data Center Dynamics, "Microsoft launches Atlanta Fairwater AI data center - two stories, no UPS or gen-sets" — datacenterdynamics.com; Microsoft Source, "Microsoft completes construction on first datacenter facility in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin" (June 23, 2026) — news.microsoft.com
  7. CNBC, "Meta signs nuclear energy deals to power Prometheus AI supercluster" (Jan 9, 2026) — cnbc.com
  8. Measured AI, "Meta's Prometheus and Google's Central Ohio Cluster: An AI Data Center Primer" — measuredai.substack.com; Data Center Dynamics, "Google to invest $2.3bn in Ohio data centers" — datacenterdynamics.com
  9. Epoch AI, "OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand" — epoch.ai; Bloomberg Originals, "Inside OpenAI's Stargate Megafactory with Sam Altman" (The Circuit)
  10. Data Center Dynamics, "Google to invest $9bn in cloud and AI infrastructure in Oklahoma" — datacenterdynamics.com