{
 "name": "Data center campus footprints",
 "publisher": "Megawatt Acres (The Dream View Co., Ltd.)",
 "url": "https://megawattacres.com/guides/how-much-land-does-a-data-center-need/",
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "compiled": "2026-10-17",
 "note": "Data center campuses for which a public source states both the land area and either the power figure or the planned floor area. Every row links to the document it comes from (listed on /sources/). The power figure is kept with its basis because sources measure different things: critical IT load, planned capacity, a utility power allocation, interconnection capacity, or the whole campus's electricity draw. Acres per MW and floor area per acre are computed on the site, never typed. Nothing is estimated; a figure the source does not give is null.",
 "campuses": [
  {
   "id": "vantage-frontier",
   "name": "Frontier",
   "operator": "Vantage Data Centers",
   "location": "Shackelford County, Texas",
   "country": "United States",
   "acres": 1200,
   "mw": 1400,
   "mwQualifier": "",
   "mwBasis": "critical IT load",
   "buildings": 10,
   "floorSqft": 3700000,
   "floorQualifier": "more than",
   "status": "under construction",
   "countInStats": true,
   "source": {
    "title": "Shackelford County (Frontier) data center campus",
    "publisher": "Vantage Data Centers",
    "url": "https://vantage-dc.com/data-center-locations/north-america/shackelford-county-tx",
    "published": "campus page",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17"
   },
   "evidence": "1,200 acre campus · 10 data centers · 1.4GW of critical IT load · 3.7M square feet",
   "notes": "Announced 2025-08-19. Ten single-storey buildings.",
   "acresPerMw": 0.8571428571428571,
   "mwPerAcre": 1.1666666666666667,
   "sqftPerAcre": 3083.3333333333335,
   "far": 0.07078359351086624
  },
  {
   "id": "related-saline",
   "name": "Stargate site, Saline Township",
   "operator": "Related Digital (Oracle tenant, for OpenAI)",
   "location": "Saline Township, Michigan",
   "country": "United States",
   "acres": 250,
   "mw": 1000,
   "mwQualifier": "more than",
   "mwBasis": "planned capacity",
   "buildings": 3,
   "floorSqft": 1650000,
   "floorQualifier": "",
   "status": "announced",
   "countInStats": true,
   "source": {
    "title": "OpenAI, Oracle, and Related Digital announce Stargate data center site in Michigan",
    "publisher": "Related Companies (press release)",
    "url": "https://www.related.com/press-releases/2025-10-30/openai-oracle-and-related-digital-announce-stargate-data-center-site",
    "published": "2025-10-30",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17"
   },
   "evidence": "developed on 250 acres in Saline Township ... more than a gigawatt of capacity ... three 550,000 square-feet single-story buildings",
   "notes": "Floor area = 3 x 550,000 sq ft as stated in the release. 'More than a gigawatt' — acres per MW computed on 1,000 MW is therefore an upper bound.",
   "acresPerMw": 0.25,
   "mwPerAcre": 4,
   "sqftPerAcre": 6600,
   "far": 0.15151515151515152
  },
  {
   "id": "meta-el-paso",
   "name": "El Paso data center",
   "operator": "Meta",
   "location": "El Paso, Texas",
   "country": "United States",
   "acres": 1042,
   "mw": 1000,
   "mwQualifier": "up to",
   "mwBasis": "planned capacity",
   "buildings": null,
   "floorSqft": 1200000,
   "floorQualifier": "first phase",
   "status": "under construction",
   "countInStats": true,
   "source": {
    "title": "Meta completes $8.5M purchase of El Paso land for proposed data center",
    "publisher": "El Paso Times (via AOL)",
    "url": "https://www.aol.com/meta-completes-8-5m-purchase-132609504.html",
    "published": "2024-04-09",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17"
   },
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Meta announces plans for $1.5B Texas data center in El Paso",
     "publisher": "ConstructConnect",
     "url": "https://news.constructconnect.com/meta-announces-plans-for-1.5b-texas-data-center-in-el-paso",
     "published": "2025-10-20"
    }
   ],
   "evidence": "purchase of more than 1,000 acres of city-owned Northeast El Paso land ... CBRE ... appraisal ... of the 1,042-acre site ... $8,156 per acre; 1.2 million-square-foot data center ... scalable to 1GW",
   "notes": "Acreage is the 1,042-acre city site appraised by CBRE for the sale; the 1.2 million sq ft is the first phase only, so floor area per acre understates the full build.",
   "acresPerMw": 1.042,
   "mwPerAcre": 0.9596928982725528,
   "sqftPerAcre": 1151.6314779270633,
   "far": 0.026437820889051042
  },
  {
   "id": "meta-hyperion",
   "name": "Hyperion",
   "operator": "Meta",
   "location": "Richland Parish, Louisiana",
   "country": "United States",
   "acres": 2250,
   "mw": 2000,
   "mwQualifier": "",
   "mwBasis": "planned capacity (original plan)",
   "buildings": null,
   "floorSqft": 4000000,
   "floorQualifier": "more than",
   "status": "under construction",
   "countInStats": true,
   "source": {
    "title": "Meta is quietly expanding its $10 billion Hyperion AI data center",
    "publisher": "Fortune",
    "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/meta-hyperion-ai-data-center-louisiana-expansion/",
    "published": "2026-02-04",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17"
   },
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Meta ups investment to $50B for its largest data center project",
     "publisher": "Bisnow",
     "url": "https://www.bisnow.com/news/national/data-center-development/meta-ups-economic-investment-to-50b-for-its-largest-data-center-project-135394",
     "published": "2026-07-13"
    },
    {
     "title": "Richland Parish data center grows to $50 billion project",
     "publisher": "KPEL",
     "url": "https://kpel965.com/meta-hyperion-data-center-expansion-richland/",
     "published": "2026-07-13"
    }
   ],
   "evidence": "2,250-acre Hyperion AI data center site ... planned to span over 4 million square feet; Hyperion was originally planned as a 2 GW data center. It is now planned to have 5 GW",
   "notes": "Row = the original 2 GW plan on the original 2,250 acres. In July 2026 the plan became 5 GW; reported site size for the expanded plan differs by source: 'more than 3,200 acres' (KPEL) and 'a 4,000-acre site' (Bisnow); Fortune reported ~1,400 acres bought next door in early 2026.",
   "acresPerMw": 1.125,
   "mwPerAcre": 0.8888888888888888,
   "sqftPerAcre": 1777.7777777777778,
   "far": 0.040812162024283234
  },
  {
   "id": "amazon-new-carlisle",
   "name": "New Carlisle campus (Project Rainier)",
   "operator": "Amazon Web Services",
   "location": "New Carlisle, Indiana",
   "country": "United States",
   "acres": 1200,
   "mw": 2200,
   "mwQualifier": "",
   "mwBasis": "campus electricity draw",
   "buildings": null,
   "floorSqft": null,
   "floorQualifier": "",
   "status": "operating, expanding",
   "countInStats": true,
   "source": {
    "title": "At Amazon's biggest data centre, everything is supersized for AI (The New York Times)",
    "publisher": "The New York Times via The Nightly",
    "url": "https://thenightly.com.au/business/the-new-york-times-at-amazons-biggest-data-centre-everything-is-supersized-for-ai-c-19309860",
    "published": "2025-07-10",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17"
   },
   "evidence": "a 1,200-acre stretch of farmland outside New Carlisle, Indiana ... The facility will consume 2.2 gigawatts of electricity",
   "notes": "The power figure is total electricity consumption, not IT load, so acres per MW here is lower than an IT-load basis would give. The same report describes a 10-acre wetland in the middle of the complex that Amazon sought permission to build on.",
   "acresPerMw": 0.5454545454545454,
   "mwPerAcre": 1.8333333333333333,
   "sqftPerAcre": null,
   "far": null
  },
  {
   "id": "microsoft-fairwater",
   "name": "Fairwater (first phase)",
   "operator": "Microsoft",
   "location": "Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin",
   "country": "United States",
   "acres": 315,
   "mw": null,
   "mwQualifier": "",
   "mwBasis": "not published",
   "buildings": 3,
   "floorSqft": 1200000,
   "floorQualifier": "",
   "status": "operating",
   "countInStats": true,
   "source": {
    "title": "Microsoft unveils Fairwater AI data center in Wisconsin",
    "publisher": "Converge Digest",
    "url": "https://convergedigest.com/microsoft-unveils-fairwater-ai-data-center-in-wisconsin/",
    "published": "2025-09-18",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17"
   },
   "evidence": "Spanning 315 acres and 1.2 million square feet (111,484 m²), the facility houses three massive buildings",
   "notes": "Microsoft has not published a megawatt figure for this phase.",
   "acresPerMw": null,
   "mwPerAcre": null,
   "sqftPerAcre": 3809.5238095238096,
   "far": 0.08745463290917836
  },
  {
   "id": "compass-pwdg",
   "name": "Digital Gateway (Compass portion, as filed)",
   "operator": "Compass Datacenters",
   "location": "Prince William County, Virginia",
   "country": "United States",
   "acres": 825,
   "mw": null,
   "mwQualifier": "",
   "mwBasis": "not published",
   "buildings": null,
   "floorSqft": 10500000,
   "floorQualifier": "up to",
   "status": "proposed (2022 rezoning filing)",
   "countInStats": true,
   "source": {
    "title": "PW Digital Gateway advances as Prince William supervisors back massive project",
    "publisher": "Data Center Frontier",
    "url": "https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/site-selection/article/21437363/prince-william-digital-gateway",
    "published": "2022-11-02",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17"
   },
   "evidence": "Compass Datacenters filed plans to rezone 825 acres of land for its project, with plans to build up to 10.5 million square feet",
   "notes": "Figures as filed in 2022; multi-storey buildings, which is why floor area per acre is several times the single-storey AI campuses.",
   "acresPerMw": null,
   "mwPerAcre": null,
   "sqftPerAcre": 12727.272727272728,
   "far": 0.29217797812839136
  },
  {
   "id": "jk-twin-creeks",
   "name": "Twin Creeks (as approved)",
   "operator": "JK Land Holdings, sold to an SDC Capital Partners affiliate",
   "location": "Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia",
   "country": "United States",
   "acres": 97,
   "mw": null,
   "mwQualifier": "",
   "mwBasis": "not published",
   "buildings": 5,
   "floorSqft": 1600000,
   "floorQualifier": "",
   "status": "approved, sold 2025",
   "countInStats": true,
   "source": {
    "title": "JK Holdings sells Leesburg land to data center investor for $615M",
    "publisher": "Connect CRE (citing Washington Business Journal)",
    "url": "https://www.connectcre.com/stories/jk-holdings-sells-leesburg-land-to-data-center-investor-for-615m/",
    "published": "2025-11-07",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17"
   },
   "evidence": "97 acres ... approvals for five two-story data centers, totaling 1.6 million square feet, as well as a Dominion Energy substation. Dominion Energy previously paid $45 million for an adjacent substation site.",
   "notes": "Same transaction as land-deals.json row va-leesburg-twin-creeks. Two-storey buildings on an infill site; the substation site was sold separately to Dominion Energy.",
   "acresPerMw": null,
   "mwPerAcre": null,
   "sqftPerAcre": 16494.845360824744,
   "far": 0.3786695445552053
  },
  {
   "id": "qts-pwdg",
   "name": "Digital Gateway (QTS portion, as filed)",
   "operator": "QTS Data Centers",
   "location": "Prince William County, Virginia",
   "country": "United States",
   "acres": 800,
   "mw": null,
   "mwQualifier": "",
   "mwBasis": "not published",
   "buildings": null,
   "floorSqft": 7900000,
   "floorQualifier": "about",
   "status": "proposed (2022 rezoning filing)",
   "countInStats": true,
   "source": {
    "title": "PW Digital Gateway advances as Prince William supervisors back massive project",
    "publisher": "Data Center Frontier",
    "url": "https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/site-selection/article/21437363/prince-william-digital-gateway",
    "published": "2022-11-02",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17"
   },
   "evidence": "QTS Data Centers seeks to develop an 800-acre campus, with the ability to build about 7.9 million square feet",
   "notes": "Figures as filed in 2022.",
   "acresPerMw": null,
   "mwPerAcre": null,
   "sqftPerAcre": 9875,
   "far": 0.22669880624426078
  },
  {
   "id": "pw-digital-gateway",
   "name": "Prince William Digital Gateway (whole corridor)",
   "operator": "Several landowners and developers",
   "location": "Prince William County, Virginia",
   "country": "United States",
   "acres": 2100,
   "mw": null,
   "mwQualifier": "",
   "mwBasis": "not published",
   "buildings": 37,
   "substations": 15,
   "floorSqft": 27000000,
   "floorQualifier": "up to",
   "status": "proposed (2022 approval)",
   "countInStats": false,
   "source": {
    "title": "PW Digital Gateway advances as Prince William supervisors back massive project",
    "publisher": "Data Center Frontier",
    "url": "https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/site-selection/article/21437363/prince-william-digital-gateway",
    "published": "2022-11-02",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17"
   },
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Putting the pieces together on Digital Gateway",
     "publisher": "The Piedmont Environmental Council",
     "url": "https://www.pecva.org/region/fauquier/putting-the-pieces-together-on-digital-gateway/",
     "published": "2023-11-01"
    }
   ],
   "evidence": "a 2,100-acre technology corridor ... up to 27 million square feet; 37 buildings and 15 substations ... according to Dominion, substations actually require 6 to 10 acres",
   "notes": "Contains the Compass and QTS portions, so it is excluded from the statistics (countInStats false) and used only for the substation count. Building and substation counts come from the Piedmont Environmental Council's reading of the master plan illustrations; the 6-10 acre substation size is Dominion Energy's figure as quoted by PEC.",
   "acresPerMw": null,
   "mwPerAcre": null,
   "sqftPerAcre": 12857.142857142857,
   "far": 0.29515938606847697
  },
  {
   "id": "nextdc-s7",
   "name": "S7 Eastern Creek",
   "operator": "NEXTDC",
   "location": "Western Sydney, New South Wales",
   "country": "Australia",
   "acres": 63.75,
   "mw": 550,
   "mwQualifier": "approximately",
   "mwBasis": "planned capacity",
   "buildings": null,
   "floorSqft": null,
   "floorQualifier": "",
   "status": "planning",
   "countInStats": true,
   "source": {
    "title": "NEXTDC acquires new Sydney data centre site S7",
    "publisher": "NEXTDC (company release)",
    "url": "https://www.nextdc.com/news/nextdc-acquires-new-sydney-data-centre-s7",
    "published": "2024-10-17",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17"
   },
   "evidence": "approximately 258,000sqm of developable land area ... close proximity to a major electricity substation ... approximately 550MW of capacity",
   "notes": "258,000 sqm = 25.8 ha = 63.75 acres (1 ha = 2.47105 acres). Developable area, subject to development approval.",
   "acresPerMw": 0.1159090909090909,
   "mwPerAcre": 8.627450980392156,
   "sqftPerAcre": null,
   "far": null
  },
  {
   "id": "msfusion-kota-tinggi",
   "name": "Kota Tinggi site",
   "operator": "MSFusion Sdn Bhd",
   "location": "Kota Tinggi, Johor",
   "country": "Malaysia",
   "acres": 52.54,
   "mw": 300,
   "mwQualifier": "",
   "mwBasis": "utility power allocation",
   "buildings": null,
   "floorSqft": null,
   "floorQualifier": "",
   "status": "land purchase, subject to approvals",
   "countInStats": true,
   "source": {
    "title": "MSFusion buys US$62.3 million Johor land for data center",
    "publisher": "W.Media",
    "url": "https://w.media/msfusion-buys-us62-3-million-johor-land-for-data-center/",
    "published": "2025-09-03",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17"
   },
   "evidence": "the land has already obtained power allocation of 300MW from Tenaga Nasional Berhad",
   "notes": "Acreage as in land-deals.json (implied by the RM115 per sq ft valuation).",
   "acresPerMw": 0.17513333333333334,
   "mwPerAcre": 5.709935287400076,
   "sqftPerAcre": null,
   "far": null
  },
  {
   "id": "stream-graham",
   "name": "Graham site",
   "operator": "Stream U.S. Data Centers",
   "location": "Graham, Texas",
   "country": "United States",
   "acres": 66,
   "mw": 164,
   "mwQualifier": "",
   "mwBasis": "grid interconnection capacity",
   "buildings": null,
   "floorSqft": null,
   "floorQualifier": "",
   "status": "agreement, closing not confirmed",
   "countInStats": true,
   "source": {
    "title": "Plug Power Form 8-K Exhibit 99.1 (press release)",
    "publisher": "Plug Power / SEC EDGAR",
    "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1093691/000110465926082854/tm2620282d1_ex99-1.htm",
    "published": "2026-07-13",
    "accessed": "2026-10-17"
   },
   "evidence": "Graham, Texas Project, comprised of land and associated 164 MW of grid interconnection assets; acreage (~66) as reported by trade press (land-deals.json row tx-graham-plug-stream)",
   "notes": "Plug Power sold its Graham, Texas project site with its grid interconnection; the MW is what the connection can carry, not a building plan.",
   "acresPerMw": 0.4024390243902439,
   "mwPerAcre": 2.484848484848485,
   "sqftPerAcre": null,
   "far": null
  }
 ]
}