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Meta Prometheus (New Albany)

Meta Prometheus (New Albany)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Rest of US (composite)

1500 Beech Road, New Albany, Licking County, Ohio (coordinates approximate); on-site natural gas generation by Williams Companies plus nuclear supply agreements

Capacity
1,000 MW basis: it load
GPUs (est.)
Capex
$10.0B
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

53.8 /100
53.8/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual

Schedule

45 /100
45/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Meta Prometheus (New Albany) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Meta Prometheus (New Albany) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Meta Prometheus (New Albany) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Meta Prometheus (New Albany) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-07-01).
Schedule milestone slippage -40 Energization Milestone "Energization" slipped 8 month(s): first announced expectation 2026-01-01 (revision history, 2 revision(s)) vs current 2026-09-30.

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Energization

    Expected
    2 revisions

    Energization · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Meta
Investor
100%
Meta
Operator
Meta
Owner
Williams Companies
Power Supplier
Williams Companies
Utility Provider

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. Broadband Breakfast · Jan 9, 2026 · backs: actual date

    https://broadbandbreakfast.com/big-tech-data-centers-metas-massive-nuclear-power-deals-20b-by-xai-in-mississippi/

  2. MLQ · backs: expected date

    https://mlq.ai/news/meta-deploys-tent-based-data-centers-in-ohio-and-tennessee-backed-by-400mw-of-off-grid-gas-power/

  3. NBC4 WCMH · backs: capacity mw

    https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/new-albany/meet-prometheus-worlds-highest-capacity-data-center-slated-to-open-in-ohio-in-2026/

  4. DC Pulse · backs: capex usd, status

    https://dcpulse.com/project/meta-prometheus-new-albany-1gw-ai-data-center

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Broadband Breakfast · relevance 0.70

  2. · Power Engineering · relevance 0.70

  3. Data Center Frontier · relevance 0.70

  4. NBC4 WCMH · relevance 0.90

  5. DC Pulse · relevance 0.90