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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Project River Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Wright Brothers Construction
- Address and locality
- Cleveland · Bradley County · Tennessee
- Official metro area
- Cleveland, TN
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 9 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001163
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
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Power source
- Mixed
- On-site generation
- 1,500 MW (source-reported)
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 850 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $7.3 billion
- Announced jobs
- 525 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- August 2026
Provider notes
Energy. Powered behind the meter by the co-located Project River energy campus (500 MW biomass plus 1,000 MW natural gas), with a requested 360 MW TVA interconnection for backup and peaking only. Developers say no diesel generators.
Water. The developer states the campus makes its own water by recovering moisture as biomass dries, running on a closed loop, and says it recovers enough clean water annually to supply both the power plant and the anchor tenant with no day-to-day draw on the municipal system. CEO Mitchell Simpson told Mix 104.1 WCLE the biomass process yields 200 gallons per minute of usable internal water for cooling loops and that the plant needs no river intake or discharge pipes. Classified closed_loop on the recirculating-circuit rule; the sources do not state the heat-rejection equipment.
Community. Residents packed a Cleveland Planning Commission meeting in August 2026 over a separate, nearly-400-acre Wright Brothers proposal, with much of the concern centred on fears a data center could be developed there. Neighbouring business owner Ryan Kertesz of B & B Marina told WTVC he has worries about effects on wildlife. Bradley County Mayor Gary Davis said publicly he was told of the announcement only as a courtesy and was not involved in developing or negotiating the project. Two public information forums were scheduled at the PIE Center for 2026-09-01 and 2026-09-12.
What the source record says
THE DATA-CENTER TENANT IS NOT CONFIRMED. Wright Brothers Construction CEO Mitchell Simpson told Mix 104.1 WCLE on 2026-08-26 that the power plant is certain but its offtaker is not: "We definitely know we're developing a power plant... We don't know what it's going to power yet... It potentially could be a data center, but it very well could be something else," naming advanced manufacturing, robotics and semiconductor manufacturing as alternatives, before adding that with that much power "it's very likely going to be that." The company's own 2026-08-26 release describes the campus as "anchored by an on-site power plant and data center." Recorded at confidence 'reported' for that reason. Roughly 850 acres of privately-owned Wright family land west of I-75 and north of Old Lower River Road NW, along the Hiwassee River in northern Bradley County near I-75 Exit 33, submitted for rezoning and annexation into the City of Cleveland on 2026-08-25. The $11.3bn headline is the whole campus; $7.3bn is the data-center portion as itemised in press coverage. Groundbreaking is not expected until end of 2027 and the build is phased over 60 months. Coordinates are a geocode of Lower River Road NW, not the parcel; no source states lat/lon. No state or local incentive agreement is named in any of the three sources.
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.
- Project River — An Industrial Energy Campus That Supplies Itself · Wright Brothers Construction
- Proponents Of Bradley County Project With Large-Scale Data Center Cite Tax Benefits · Chattanoogan.com
- $11.3B data center pitch in Bradley County comes amid growing local skepticism · NewsChannel 9 / WTVC
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID project-river-data-center-bradley-county-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-001163
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
- Cleveland, TN · Bradley (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Wright Brothers Construction
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: August 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 850 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Tennessee Valley Authority
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Mixed
Provider label.
- On-site generation: 1,500 MW (source-reported)
On-site figures often describe backup generators rather than primary supply; read the provider energy note.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $7.3 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 525 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover 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: 2026-09-09
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: 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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