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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Fisk University Quantum Leap Innovation & Technology Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Fisk University
- Address and locality
- Herman Street at 17th Avenue North · Nashville · Davidson County · Tennessee
- Official metro area
- Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 30 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 21 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000628
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.
- Electric utility
- Nashville Electric Service
- Land area
- 5 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $400 million
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- May 2026
Provider notes
Energy. Don Hardin, whose construction management firm is a partner on the project, said Nashville Electric Service assured developers it can handle the facility's 30-megawatt need (WSMV, 2026-06-08). No on-site generation is described in either source.
Community. Two petitions circulated against the plan within weeks of the May 2026 announcement, one on Change.org with more than 4,200 signatures and another with more than 360, and residents and Fisk alumni spoke against it. Objections cited in the coverage are the project's break with the university's civil-rights history and unknown environmental, water, energy and noise effects, not a specific documented harm.
What the source record says
Announced May 2026 as the anchor of Fisk's ~$1 billion "Quantum Leap" campus master plan. The 100,000 sq ft Innovation & Technology Center splits into 30,000 sq ft of academic space and a 70,000 sq ft, 30MW technology shell that DCD reports will be set aside for a data-center partner not yet named; the $400m figure is that portion of the project, not the whole master plan. Fisk itself avoids the phrase "data center" and calls it an Innovation & Technology Center. Site is five undeveloped acres, a former athletics track just west of Johnson Gymnasium at 17th Avenue North and Herman Street in the 37208 ZIP. Still awaiting Nashville Metropolitan Planning Commission approval as of the sources' dates, so status is proposed. Coordinates are a geocode of Herman Street within 37208, not a parcel; no source states lat/lon. No subsidy agreement is mentioned in either source.
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
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- Fisk University looks to build data center in Nashville, Tennessee · DataCenterDynamics (archived)
- What to know about the data center planned for Nashville HBCU Fisk University's campus · WSMV 4 Nashville
- Will a Data Center Bring Risk or Reward to Fisk? (Inside Higher Ed, Aug 7, 2026) · Inside Higher Ed
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID fisk-quantum-leap-nashville-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).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000628
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): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Herman Street at 17th Avenue North, Nashville, TN · Davidson (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Fisk University
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: May 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 5 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 30 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Nashville Electric Service
Utility as named by the provider.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $400 million
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-21
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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