Lancaster, Ohio, United States
Google Lancaster is an operational AI data center in Lancaster, OH, USA, with AI chips owned by Google and used by Google DeepMind (likely). It hosts an estimated 87k H100-equivalent chips — supported by 137 MW of IT power — at a capital cost of $5.2 B. We estimate that it uses Google TPU v5e, Google TPU v5p, Google TPU v7, and Google TPU v6e chips. 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
87k H100-eq
1.72e20 8-bit OP/s
CURRENT IT POWER
137 MW
PROJECTED IT POWER
137 MW
CURRENT COST
$5.2 B
PROJECTED COST
$5.2 B
Land clearing in progress for the site
Building 1 operational. This is estimated based on construction progress in October 2023. This also corresponds to a 2023 article where a Google spokesperson says that the "the Lancaster data center will open later this year".
Building 2 is close to completion. Structurally it is already complete, but there is still some equipment strewn around the building that suggests commissioning is ongoing.
Building 2 operational. This is supported by the state of Building 2 a month prior, which is entirely complete outside of some equipment that was removed later on.
At this point, Building 1 and 2 have since already been operational. Additionally, there is visible steam showing clear evidence of operational for both before this date.
Read more about our methodology.