Who's actually online, how fast they got there, and what their power really costs. We track the difference between announcements and megawatts.
Every dot is a behind-the-meter power project serving a data center, placed from its permit filings. Size is capacity, color is stage.
Operating dots: engine-verified capacity, coordinates from the permit/satellite trail. Other stages: as announced or filed — editorial, pending full database records.
The complete verified operating fleet, with the permit trail on every row. Announced capacity doesn't make this table — first verified megawatts do.
| Facility | MW | Equipment (as permitted) | Permit | Permit → power | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xAI Colossus 1 Memphis, TN · xAI |
247 +174 obs. | 15× Solar SMT-130 w/ SCR; up to 35 mobile units observed by satellite | In litigation SCHD 01156-01PC · NAACP v. xAI |
−7 mo | SELC |
| xAI Colossus 2 Southaven, MS · xAI |
422 | 27 mobile turbines observed; 41 units permitted at Southaven plant | Appealed MDEQ · appeal pending |
— | mgrid |
| Crusoe Stargate Abilene Abilene, TX · OpenAI via Oracle |
360 | 5× Solar Titan 350 + 5× GE LM2500, 8,760 hr/yr, NSPS KKKK | Clean TCEQ reg. 177263 · Title V O4721 |
13 mo | TCEQ |
| Fleet remainder under verification |
~140 | Third-party trackers count a fourth operating project. We publish rows only when we can link them to a permit and verified operation — see methodology. | — | ||
The industry promises "months, not years." Here's what the record actually shows. Negative numbers mean the turbines ran before the permit existed.
Zero = first air-permit filing; months computed from engine-verified dates — rows show a number only when both dates are published with sources. Grid interconnection median for comparison: 60+ months. Red = operation preceded permit; both xAI sites are in active Clean Air Act litigation.
Fuel by heat rate, capex annualized over 15 years at 10%, O&M — against your grid tariff, and against the value of connecting earlier. Load a real facility or set your own assumptions.
Where the defaults come from: heat rate and 8,760 hr/yr utilization — TCEQ reg. 177263 technical review (Crusoe Abilene); gas price — EIA Henry Hub daily spot; grid tariff band — EIA industrial average by state. Capex and O&M are model assumptions, not sourced facts — that's why they're sliders. Every output is arithmetic on your inputs.
Every facility resolved to the public companies exposed — developer, turbine OEM, fuel supplier, offtaker. Backlogs are guidance; permits are fact.
A new air permit is a new buyer of turbines, gas, and EPC hours. Know who filed this week — before the press release, before your competitor.
Underwrite the next deal with benchmarks from filings, not pitch decks: real $/kW, real months-to-power, real permit risk.
Numbers you can print, with the government document one click away on every row. CC BY 4.0 — quote freely, chart freely, just credit the source.
Every row links to the government document it came from. Here's the pipeline — and what a source actually looks like.
Every number on this site comes from public records — air permits, siting dockets, court filings. Your taxes funded their creation. The data was just scattered across fifty agencies in formats nobody could read.
We collect it, verify it, and structure it. The dataset is free to download and always will be — CSV, JSON, API, no signup wall. Use it in your research, your models, your reporting. All we ask is attribution.
One day we may build paid services on top. The underlying data stays open. That's the deal, in writing.
| Project | Offtaker | Capacity | Stage | Target first power |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams Socrates South + North New Albany, OH | Meta | 400 MW | Under construction | Q3–Q4 2026 |
| Vantage Frontier Shackelford County, TX | Oracle / OpenAI | 1.4 GW (700 MW ph. 1) | Under construction | H2 2026 |
| EdgeConneX PowerConneX New Albany, OH | EdgeConneX | 120+ MW | Under construction | Late 2026 |
Capacities as filed or announced — unverified until the first megawatt. Rows graduate to the fleet table above, with full document sources, the day operation is verified. Will they hit their dates? Subscribe and find out.
The industry says "months, not years." The permit record says something more interesting.
Coming at launchHeat rates from permits, gas from the hubs, capex from the record. Reconstructing the numbers nobody publishes.
Coming at launchWhere projects actually stall — stage by stage, with the filings to prove it.
Every Tuesday: new filings, verified megawatts, and what they mean. The data is free for everyone. The interpretation arrives by email first.