Oak Ridge Reservation AI Data Center Sites (DOE land lease)
U.S. Department of Energy · Oak Ridge, TN · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- representative_multi_site
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 35.9352633, -84.3923554
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-09
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
No dated operational history is established in this record. Publication, discovery and source-update dates are not opening dates.
Source notes
DOE's Offices of Environmental Management and Science issued a Request for Proposal on 2025-09-30 (published the week of 2025-10-13 per FedScoop) seeking U.S. companies to build, own and operate AI data centers and/or energy generation on the Oak Ridge Reservation under one or more long-term ground leases funded entirely by the lessee. Two sites are named in the DOE release: one at the East Tennessee Technology Park and one on land adjacent to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This is recorded as a single record with the pin at a representative point for a multi-site project, geocoded to the East Tennessee Technology Park, because DOE names two sites but publishes no design, footprint, or capacity for either; splitting it would duplicate a record with no site-specific facts. ORNL itself geocodes to 35.9301332, -84.3119307. Confirmed absences as of 2026-09-09: no lessee has been selected, no capacity, investment, footprint or timeline is stated, and applicants — not DOE — are responsible for securing utility interconnection agreements and all permitting. The operator field records DOE as the landowner and solicitor, not as the eventual data-center operator, which is unknown. Oak Ridge is one of four federal sites DOE identified for AI infrastructure. Distinct from Kairos Power Hermes 2 (tracked separately as of September 2026), which is a separate NRC-licensed reactor project at Oak Ridge.
Sources and provenance
- U.S. Energy Department Seeks Proposals for AI Data Centers, Energy Projects at Oak Ridge · source retrieved 2026-09-09
- Energy seeks proposals for AI data centers at Oak Ridge · source retrieved 2026-09-09
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.