Only 14 AI data centers on Earth are bigger than 250 megawatts. ⚡
Epoch AI tracks 96 frontier AI data centers. Just 14 are past 250 MW: 12 in the US and 2 in Malaysia.
The top of the list: → New Carlisle, Indiana: about 1,037 MW, already past a gigawatt → Colossus 2: about 946 MW → Stargate Abilene: about 824 MW
For scale, the whole city of San Diego averages around 800 MW.
Why go this big? One giant site can train a single model as one machine. Two half-size sites can't do that as easily. And every watt that goes in comes back out as heat you have to remove.
All 96 together: about 15 GW, and the curve is still climbing.
Which country builds the next gigawatt site? 👇
Source: Epoch AI, Frontier Data Centers (epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers)
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