Meta New Albany Data Center
Meta lists a data center at New Albany, Ohio among the sites it operates. It is running; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
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
- Not disclosed
- 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
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | Not disclosed | |||
| 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
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Meta | as stated by the source | September 17, 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.
- Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What happened
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· Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)
Meta lists Meta New Albany Data Center at New Albany, Ohio on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]
The site
Where in New Albany is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of New Albany, not a building, and the outline is Franklin County.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Running, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 29 other published records in Ohio
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
- New Albany, Franklin County, Ohio
- 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.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Meta New Albany Data Center?
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Meta is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Meta New Albany Data Center say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Meta New Albany Data Center stand today?
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It is running; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, read on September 14, 2026: Meta lists Meta New Albany Data Center at New Albany, Ohio on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]
What has New Albany or Franklin County decided about it?
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No decision by New Albany or Franklin County about data centers is on the record. The Franklin County page and the Ohio scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
Sources
Primary documents
- Meta: Our U.S. data center fleet, Meta, September 14, 2026
Reporting
- Ohio regulators approve construction of 200MW gas power plant to serve Meta's New Albany data center - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, June 10, 2025, query feed
- Meta DC infrastructure partner purchases $42m land parcel in New Albany, Ohio - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, January 14, 2026, query feed
- Meta will use nuclear power for its New Albany A.I. data center - NBC4 WCMH-TV, NBC4 WCMH-TV, January 9, 2026, query feed
- Gun confiscated at Meta data center in New Albany, Ohio - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, November 18, 2025, query feed
- Meta expanding New Albany site for the world's highest capacity data center - The Columbus Dispatch, The Columbus Dispatch, September 26, 2025, query feed
- Meta data center firm Sidecat buys nearly $42 million New Albany parcel - The Columbus Dispatch, The Columbus Dispatch, January 14, 2026, query feed
- Meta wants to draw power for unused New Albany electrical substation built for Intel project - WOSU Public Media, WOSU Public Media, November 26, 2025, query feed
- Another on-site power plant for New Albany data center campus gets green light - The Business Journals, The Business Journals, November 21, 2025, query feed
- New Albany Data Center Will Bring High Costs for Both Consumers and the Environment - KentStater, KentStater, October 10, 2025, query feed
- Meta data center in New Albany evacuated, workers sent home after gun scare - The Columbus Dispatch, The Columbus Dispatch, November 17, 2025, query feed
- Hollow Promises in Ohio’s Silicon Heartland - The American Prospect, The American Prospect, March 5, 2026, query feed
- Meta lines up supply of nuclear power to energize AI data centers, including New Albany - WSYX, WSYX, January 9, 2026, query feed
2 more sources
- Meta will use nuclear power for its New Albany A.I. data center - nbc4i.com, nbc4i.com, January 9, 2026, query feed
- Workers sent home after employee found with gun at Meta data center site in New Albany - NBC4 WCMH-TV, NBC4 WCMH-TV, November 17, 2025, query feed
15 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Meta New Albany Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/meta-new-albany-data-center-oh, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Meta New Albany Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/meta-new-albany-data-center-oh. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- meta-new-albany-data-center-oh
- Status value
- operational
- Stage
- Running
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/oh/franklin-county/new-albany
- Coordinates
- 40.0878375, -82.7722735
- 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
- not_disclosed
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-14
- Last verified
- 2026-09-17