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Bau ist das ehrliche Scoreboard im KI-Wettlauf: Ankündigungen sind billig, aber Beton, Turbinen und Netzanschlussverträge nicht. Jeder Eintrag hier nennt die gemeldete Kapazität mit ihrer Grundlage – lesen Sie die Labels, nicht nur die Gigawatt.
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Stargate Abilene
Das Programm, das „eine halbe Billion Dollar" zu einem normalen Satz gemacht hat.
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Meta Hyperion
Ein Campus im Vergleich zu Manhattan – im ländlichen Louisiana.
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AWS New Carlisle (Project Rainier)
Anthropics Trainingsgrundlage – der größte Nicht-NVIDIA-Aufbau der Welt.
AI campuses & programs
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Stargate Abilene
The flagship of the $500B Stargate program — OpenAI's first purpose-built campus.
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xAI Colossus
100,000 GPUs in 122 days — the build that reset the industry's clock.
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AWS New Carlisle (Project Rainier)
Anthropic's training ground: a Trainium2 mega-campus in the Indiana corn belt.
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Meta Hyperion
A campus the size of Manhattan: 5 GW announced scale in rural Louisiana.
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Microsoft Fairwater
Microsoft's 'most powerful AI datacenter' — and a template it is replicating.
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El Capitan (LLNL)
The fastest disclosed computer on Earth — MI300A APUs for the nuclear stockpile.
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Equinix Ashburn (Data Center Alley)
The most connected place on the internet — where AI meets the network.
Frontier (Oak Ridge)
The first exascale computer — public-sector proof of AMD's stack.
Google Council Bluffs
A window into Google's fleet: two decades and $5B+ in one Iowa town.
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Meta Prometheus
Meta's first gigawatt-class cluster, slated online in 2026.
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Stargate UAE
The 5 GW Gulf out-station of the Stargate program.
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Switch Citadel Campus
One of the world's largest planned colocation campuses — and Oklo's first customer site region.
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Tesla Cortex
The GPU cluster at Giga Texas training Full Self-Driving.
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xAI Colossus 2
The gigawatt sequel: xAI's push toward a million-GPU class site.
Frontier (Oak Ridge)
The first exascale computer — public-sector proof of AMD's stack.
Google Council Bluffs
A window into Google's fleet: two decades and $5B+ in one Iowa town.
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Meta Prometheus
Meta's first gigawatt-class cluster, slated online in 2026.
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Stargate UAE
The 5 GW Gulf out-station of the Stargate program.
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Switch Citadel Campus
One of the world's largest planned colocation campuses — and Oklo's first customer site region.
TC
Tesla Cortex
The GPU cluster at Giga Texas training Full Self-Driving.
XC
xAI Colossus 2
The gigawatt sequel: xAI's push toward a million-GPU class site.
Power projects tied to AI demand
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Crane Clean Energy Center (Three Mile Island Unit 1)
The restart that defined AI's nuclear turn — 835 MW, all of it for Microsoft.
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Palisades Nuclear Plant
The first shut US reactor ever returned to service — October 2025.
Clinton Clean Energy Center
Meta's 20-year deal that saved an Illinois reactor.
Diablo Canyon
California's last reactors, extended for the AI decade.
Duane Arnold Energy Center
Iowa's shut reactor, next in the restart queue for ~2029.
Homer City Energy Campus
A demolished coal giant reborn as a 4.5 GW gas-powered AI campus plan.
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Kairos Hermes / Google Fleet
The first Gen IV construction permits in the US — and Google's 500 MW order.
Susquehanna Steam Electric Station
The reactor with a data center at the fence line — AWS's landmark arrangement.
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TerraPower Natrium (Kemmerer)
The most advanced new-reactor site in America, on a retiring coal town.
Vogtle Units 3 & 4
America's newest reactors — the hard-won template for building big again.