{"data":[{"jobs":"Not disclosed in cited source","kind":"program","name":"Kairos Power Hermes 2 — Oak Ridge","slug":"kairos-hermes-2-oak-ridge","capex":"Not disclosed in cited source","power":"Up to 50 MW planned — PPA","region":"east","status":"Power purchase agreement signed — operations planned 2030","details":["Kairos says TVA is the first U.S. utility to sign a PPA for electricity from a Gen IV reactor.","Hermes 2 is the first deployment under Kairos's agreement with Google for 500 MW of advanced nuclear capacity by 2035. Planned capacity is not delivered capacity."],"summary":"On August 18, 2025 Google, Kairos Power and TVA announced a PPA under which Hermes 2 in Oak Ridge would deliver up to 50 MW to TVA's grid, scheduled to begin operations in 2030.","locality":"Roane County","location":"Oak Ridge","operator":"Kairos Power","sourceIds":["kairos-hermes2-tva","google-kairos-tva"],"confidence":"B","verifiedAt":"2026-11-03"},{"jobs":"Not disclosed in cited source","kind":"program","name":"ORNL Discovery and Lux AI supercomputers","slug":"ornl-discovery-lux","capex":"Not disclosed in cited ORNL/DOE source","power":"Not disclosed in cited source","region":"east","status":"Announced — Lux 2026, Discovery 2028","details":["Lux uses AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs and leverages Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; Discovery is based on the HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000 with AMD MI430X GPUs.","Delivery dates are announced schedules, not confirmed installations."],"summary":"DOE announced on October 27, 2025 two AMD-powered, HPE-built systems at ORNL: the Lux AI cluster, to be deployed in early 2026, and Discovery, to be delivered in 2028 as Frontier's successor.","locality":"Anderson County","location":"Oak Ridge","operator":"Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE)","sourceIds":["ornl-discovery-lux","doe-discovery-lux"],"confidence":"A","verifiedAt":"2026-11-03"},{"lat":35.184553,"lng":-89.894612,"jobs":"Not disclosed in cited source","kind":"campus","name":"xAI Colossus — Paul R. 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DatacenterDynamics reported an $80 million purchase of parcels off Tulane Road in Whitehaven.","locality":"Shelby County","location":"5420 Tulane Road, Whitehaven, Memphis","operator":"xAI","sourceIds":["census-counties","xai-memphis-expansion","xai-tulane-dcd","mlgw-xai-statement"],"confidence":"B","verifiedAt":"2026-11-03","locationNote":"Census Gazetteer internal point for Shelby County; not the campus location.","approximateLocation":true},{"lat":36.472423,"lng":-86.458405,"jobs":"Over 100 operational jobs — operator, 2024","kind":"campus","name":"Meta Gallatin Data Center","slug":"meta-gallatin","capex":"More than $1.5B at full build-out — operator","power":"Not disclosed (530 MW renewable procurement is separate)","region":"middle","status":"Serving traffic since November 2024","details":["Meta's 2020 post put the investment at more than $800 million supporting about 100 jobs; its 2024 post says the fully built facility will represent more than $1.5 billion in Tennessee.","Meta says eight Meta-supported projects with TVA add 530 MW of new renewable energy in Tennessee; that is a renewable-supply figure, not the campus load."],"summary":"Meta broke ground in Gallatin in August 2020 on a 982,000-square-foot campus and announced on November 14, 2024 that the data center was serving traffic.","locality":"Sumner County","location":"Gallatin","operator":"Meta","sourceIds":["census-counties","meta-gallatin","meta-gallatin-online","tnecd-meta-gallatin"],"confidence":"A","verifiedAt":"2026-11-03","locationNote":"Census Gazetteer internal point for Sumner County; not the campus location.","approximateLocation":true},{"lat":36.500354,"lng":-87.380887,"jobs":"Not disclosed in cited source","kind":"campus","name":"Google Montgomery County data center","slug":"google-montgomery-county","capex":"Not disclosed in cited source","power":"Not disclosed in cited source","region":"middle","status":"Operating data center","details":["Investment and staffing totals are not repeated here unless taken from a current Google page."],"summary":"Google lists Montgomery County, Tennessee among its data center locations. 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