Arcola, Virginia, United States
Google Arcola is an operational AI data center hosting an estimated 157k H100-equivalent chips — supported by 77 MW of IT power — at a capital cost of $2.9 B. The timeline of IT power and compute capacity is based on satellite imagery, our cooling equipment power model, chip availability, and chip efficiency.
Satellite imagery
CURRENT COMPUTE
157k H100-eq
3.11e20 8-bit OP/s
CURRENT IT POWER
77 MW
PROJECTED IT POWER
77 MW
CURRENT COST
$2.9 B
PROJECTED COST
$2.9 B
Building 1 foundation started
Building 1 roof complete, cooling towers in progress.
Building 1 appears almost complete, with minimal construction activity.
Building 1 is operational, based off of colored motion artifacts from cooling towers.
Read more about our methodology.