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Meta Gallatin Data Center

Meta lists a data center at Gallatin, Tennessee among the sites it operates. It is running; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.

How much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.

Last verified · 2 sources, 1 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.

What is known

Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.

Land
Not disclosed
Power it would draw
300 MW
third party estimate [2]
Water
Not disclosed
Who leads it
Meta
as stated by the source
Who would use it
Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs
Not disclosed
Tax each year
Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)

Impact figures

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
How much power it needs 300 MW third party estimate [2] yahoo.com September 25, 2026
How much water it would use Not disclosed
How loud it would be Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs Not disclosed
Tax it would pay each year Not disclosed

The record's fields

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it Meta as stated by the source September 25, 2026
Who is constructing it Not disclosed
How much land Not disclosed
Where its power comes from Not disclosed
Grid connection Not disclosed
How it is cooled Not disclosed

The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.

Still not public, and where it would show up

The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.

  • Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
  • Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
  • Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.

What was decided

Acts of Sumner County and Gallatin about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

DateWhoDecisionSource
Gallatin Original proposal called for 12 month moratorium, amended to six months yahoo.com
Gallatin Gallatin City Council advanced six month moratorium on new data center applications on first reading September 15 yahoo.com

What happened

  1. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    Meta Gallatin data center began serving global internet traffic in November 2024 [2]

  2. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    Meta broke ground on Gallatin campus in 2020 and pledged more than $1.5 billion investment [2]

  3. · Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

    Meta lists Meta Gallatin Data Center at Gallatin, Tennessee on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]

The full Meta Gallatin Data Center timeline, in order

The site

Where in Gallatin is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Gallatin, not a building, and the outline is Sumner County.

  • This record: Running, ringed
  • data center
  • Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
  • Smaller pins: 5 other published records in Tennessee
Details
  • this record's location, ringed
  • parcel outline, from the county parcel record
  • city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
  • county boundary

The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.

Where
Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee
How exactly it is located
Town level, the center of the city
The parcel
No parcel outline in the public record
Nearest homes
Not computed for a record placed at a place center
Nearest records
Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at the center of its town.

Keep going

The county Sumner County 1 project on the record. The state Data centers in Tennessee Every Tennessee project, the rules on the record and what comes next.

Questions about this project

5 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

How big is Meta Gallatin Data Center?

The record has one measure of its size: 300 MW (third party estimate, source). Its acreage is not disclosed.

Who is building Meta Gallatin Data Center?

Meta is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

How much power and water does Meta Gallatin Data Center say it needs?

Power: 300 MW (third party estimate, source). Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does Meta Gallatin Data Center stand today?

It is running; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, reported September 16, 2026: Meta Gallatin data center began serving global internet traffic in November 2024 [2].

What has Gallatin or Sumner County decided about it?

Gallatin: Original proposal called for 12 month moratorium, amended to six months (reported September 16, 2026, source); and Gallatin: Gallatin City Council advanced six month moratorium on new data center applications on first reading September 15 (September 15, 2026, source). 2 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

Sources

Primary documents first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Primary documents

  1. Meta: Our U.S. data center fleet, Meta, September 14, 2026

Reporting

  1. Gallatin, home to Meta campus, weighs new data center moratorium - The Tennessean, The Tennessean, September 16, 2026, local outlet

2 sources on file.

Cite this record

Data Center Record, "Meta Gallatin Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/meta-gallatin-data-center-tn, last verified September 25, 2026.

Last verified , first recorded . Every correction is logged on the corrections page.

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Slug
meta-gallatin-data-center-tn
Status value
operational
Stage
Running
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/tn/sumner-county/gallatin
Coordinates
36.3801445, -86.4669573
Location precision
city
Location source
U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
Coordinate source
tigerweb city centroid
Location source number
Not disclosed
Location last verified
September 14, 2026
EPA registry id
Not disclosed
Use type values
not_disclosed
Tenancy value
not_disclosed
Cooling type value
not_disclosed
Capacity basis
third_party_estimate
Water basis
not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
Acreage basis
Not disclosed
Interconnection value
not_disclosed
Capacity, if disclosed
300 MW, third party estimate
Rating of the county's rows
Not disclosed
Published
2026-09-14
Last verified
2026-09-25