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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Oak Ridge Reservation AI Data Center Sites (DOE land lease).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Address and locality
- Oak Ridge · Roane County · Tennessee
- Official metro area
- Knoxville, TN
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 9 September 2026
- Location precision
- representative multi site
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000510
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- September 2025
What the source record says
DOE's Offices of Environmental Management and Science issued a Request for Proposal on 2025-09-30 (published the week of 2025-10-13 per FedScoop) seeking U.S. companies to build, own and operate AI data centers and/or energy generation on the Oak Ridge Reservation under one or more long-term ground leases funded entirely by the lessee. TWO SITES are named in the DOE release: one at the East Tennessee Technology Park and one on land adjacent to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This is recorded as a single record with representative_multi_site precision, geocoded to the East Tennessee Technology Park, because DOE names two sites but publishes no design, footprint, or capacity for either; splitting it would duplicate a record with no site-specific facts. ORNL itself geocodes to 35.9301332, -84.3119307. CONFIRMED ABSENCES as of 2026-09-09: no lessee has been selected, no capacity, investment, footprint or timeline is stated, and applicants — not DOE — are responsible for securing utility interconnection agreements and all permitting. The operator field records DOE as the landowner and solicitor, NOT as the eventual data-center operator, which is unknown. Oak Ridge is one of four federal sites DOE identified for AI infrastructure. Distinct from the existing Kairos Power Hermes 2 record, which is a separate NRC-licensed reactor project at Oak Ridge.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- U.S. Energy Department Seeks Proposals for AI Data Centers, Energy Projects at Oak Ridge · U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management
- Energy seeks proposals for AI data centers at Oak Ridge · FedScoop
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID doe-oak-ridge-reservation-ai-data-centers-tn. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000510
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Oak Ridge, TN · Roane (Representative point for several sites)
Roles
- Operator: U.S. Department of Energy
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: September 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-09
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact · Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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