The AI Data Centers Hub contains three record types:
Data Centers: Core site/campus information—location, ownership/tenancy, IT power capacity, compute capacity, capital costs, and metadata (sources, methods).
Timelines: Dated milestones and time-series figures for each site—construction status by date, IT power capacity and performance snapshots, costs, and other progress indicators.
Chip quantities: Dated records of the type and number of chips deployed at each site, linked to the corresponding Data Centers and Timelines records.
We provide a comprehensive guide to the hub’s fields below. Examples are taken from a representative site (e.g., OpenAI Stargate Abilene) unless otherwise indicated. For each Data Center, time-varying metrics (IT power capacity, performance, costs, construction progress) are stored as individual Timelines records.
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| Column | Type | Definition | Example value | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Name | Text | Name for the site or campus. | OpenAI Stargate Abilene | 100%
86 out of 86 records |
Current H100 equivalents | Link → Timelines | Lookup field to the H100 equivalents field in the Timelines table, containing the most recent value for compute capacity in H100-equivalents based on 8-bit OP/s, as of the current date. | 509348 | 100%
86 out of 86 records |
Current power (MW) | Link → Timelines | Lookup field to the Power (MW) field in the Timelines table, containing the most recent value for total facility power in megawatts, as of the current date. | 421 | 100%
86 out of 86 records |
Current total capital cost (2025 USD billions) | Link → Timelines | Lookup field to Total capital cost (2025 USD billions) in the Timelines table, containing the most recent estimate of total facility capital cost. | 15.948322 | 100%
86 out of 86 records |
Owner | Text with Confidence Signifier | Who owns the AI hardware in the data center. This is not necessarily the owner or operator of the facility. Includes signifier indicating confidence of “#confident”, “#likely”, or “#speculative”. | Oracle #confident | 90%
77 out of 86 records |
Users | Text with Confidence Signifier | AI lab(s) using the compute in the data center. Includes confidence signifier. | OpenAI #confident | 74%
64 out of 86 records |
Selected sources | Text | List of the most important sources supporting the data. | 100%
86 out of 86 records | |
Calculations sheet | URL | Link to a spreadsheet which stores the timeline, chip quantities, and cooling quantities data and the calculations behind them. | 100%
86 out of 86 records | |
Project | Text with Confidence Signifier | The broader project that this data center is part of, if applicable. | Stargate #confident | 20%
17 out of 86 records |
Investors | Link (multi → Organizations) | Financial backers tied to the campus/project. | Softbank,OpenAI,Oracle | 10%
9 out of 86 records |
Construction companies | Link (multi → Organizations) | Companies involved in construction of the site. | Mortenson | 7%
6 out of 86 records |
Energy companies | Link (multi → Organizations) | Companies involved with providing power to the site. | American Electric Power | 21%
18 out of 86 records |
Country | Single select | The country that this data center is located in. | United States | 100%
86 out of 86 records |
Address | Text | Street address, based on public records. | 5502 Spinks Rd, Abilene, TX 79601 | 86%
74 out of 86 records |
| Column | Type | Definition | Example value | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Data center | Link → AI data centers | Link to the record of the data center this timeline corresponds to. | OpenAI Stargate Abilene | 100%
497 out of 497 records |
Date | Date | As-of date for the status/metrics. | 2026-03-24 | 100%
497 out of 497 records |
Construction status | Text | Short description of the construction status at that point in time. | Building 3 and 4 look complete, but are not fully operational. Not as many cars are parked next to it as Building 1-2 which suggests they may still be ramping up. Building 4 was due by now according to a regulatory filing. Building 5 still has light construction activity, while Building 6 still lacks chillers. The on-site power plant to the right of Building 2 looks complete. | 100%
497 out of 497 records |
Buildings operational | Numeric | Count of buildings operational by this date. | 2 | 100%
495 out of 497 records |
IT power (MW) | Numeric | Total IT power capacity in megawatts, including power for GPU servers, network infrastructure and storage. | 211.0 | 100%
496 out of 497 records |
Power (MW) | Numeric (calc/observed) | Total facility power capacity in megawatts, including the IT power and power for cooling, lighting, etc. | 295.0 | 100%
496 out of 497 records |
H100 equivalents | Numeric (calc) | The number of NVIDIA H100 GPUs that are equivalent to this data center’s compute capacity, based on 8-bit OP/s. | 254674 | 99%
494 out of 497 records |
Performance (8-bit OP/s) | Numeric | Maximum compute capacity in any format 8 bits or wider. Estimates usually based on best guesses of what chips would be used at the location and the power estimate to infer the number of these chips. | 504000000000000000000 | 99%
494 out of 497 records |
Total capital cost (2025 USD billions) | Numeric | Total capital cost of the entire facility by this date, including IT hardware (such as GPUs), mechanical and electrical equipment, building shell and white space, construction labor, land acquisition, etc. | 7.993102 | 100%
496 out of 497 records |
Compute cost (2025 USD billions) | Numeric | Total capital cost of the IT hardware in the data center buildings. Includes GPUs, networking, server racks, etc. | 5.509843 | 100%
496 out of 497 records |
Construction cost (2025 USD billions) | Numeric | Total of all capital costs other than compute, including building shell and white space, mechanical and electrical, HVAC systems, construction labor, land acquisition, etc. | 2.483259 | 100%
496 out of 497 records |
Annual operating cost (2025 USD billions) | Numeric | Annual total of all operating costs, including energy consumption, taxes, maintenance, labor, and water. | 0.190322 | 100%
496 out of 497 records |
Water use (MGD) | Numeric | Estimated average water consumed by the data center in million gallons/day. | 16%
79 out of 497 records | |
Current H100 equivalents | Number | Lookup to the current number of H100 equivalents for the data center as of today. Used to group and sort the table. | 509348 | 100%
497 out of 497 records |
| Column | Type | Definition | Example value | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Handle | Text | Identifies the record via the chip type, data center, and date. | B300 at OpenAI Stargate Abilene on 2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z | 100%
207 out of 207 records |
Date | Date | As-of date for the metrics. | 2026-05-23 | 100%
207 out of 207 records |
Chip type | Link → Chip types | The type of chip deployed in the data center. Links to the Chip types table from the Chip Sales dataset. | B300 | 100%
207 out of 207 records |
Number of Units | Number | The number of chips of the given type that are deployed in the data center as of this date. Note that for each data center, the chip quantities implicitly start at zero, and are implicitly constant until the next record with the same “Chip type” and a later “Date”. | 100,800 | 100%
207 out of 207 records |
Chip type source | Single select | How the chip type was determined: either “Company disclosure”, if the chip type was disclosed by one of the companies involved with the data center, or “Estimate”, if estimated. The estimate is usually based on Chip Sales in the previous quarter, or the chip owner; e.g. if the owner is Google then the chip type is likely TPUs. | Estimate | 100%
207 out of 207 records |
Number of Units source | Single select | How the number of units was determined, similar to the “Chip type source” field. If “Estimate”, the estimate is usually based on the IT power of the data center divided by the IT power per chip. | Estimate | 100%
207 out of 207 records |
Owner | Text with Confidence Signifier | The owner of the chips on this date. Includes signifier indicating confidence of “#confident”, “#likely”, or “#speculative”. | Oracle #confident | 89%
184 out of 207 records |
User | Text with Confidence Signifier | The user of the chips on this date. Includes signifier indicating confidence of “#confident”, “#likely”, or “#speculative”. | OpenAI #confident | 73%
151 out of 207 records |
Notes | Text | Details on how this chip quantity was found or estimated, and anything else of note. | Building design is the same but the chillers are slightly larger, suggesting the same number of servers but slightly more power per server. This is consistent with B300, as is the timing with B300 chip sales ramping up. | 93%
192 out of 207 records |
Data center | Link → Data centers | A link to the record from the “Data centers” table that this chip quantity applies to. | OpenAI Stargate Abilene | 100%
207 out of 207 records |
Timeline | Link → Timelines | A link to the record from the “Timelines” table that this chip quantity corresponds to. | 2026-05-23 | 100%
207 out of 207 records |
Epoch’s AI Data Centers Hub is an independent database covering the construction timelines of major AI data centers through high-resolution satellite imagery, permits, and public documents.