Fisk University Quantum Leap Innovation & Technology Center
Fisk University · Nashville, TN · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Herman Street at 17th Avenue North
- Coordinates
- 36.1667902, -86.7973014
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Nashville Electric Service
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 30 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-21
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
Announced May 2026 as the anchor of Fisk's ~$1 billion "Quantum Leap" campus master plan. The 100,000 sq ft Innovation & Technology Center splits into 30,000 sq ft of academic space and a 70,000 sq ft, 30MW technology shell that DCD reports will be set aside for a data-center partner not yet named; the $400m figure is that portion of the project, not the whole master plan. Fisk itself avoids the phrase "data center" and calls it an Innovation & Technology Center. Site is five undeveloped acres, a former athletics track just west of Johnson Gymnasium at 17th Avenue North and Herman Street in the 37208 ZIP. Still awaiting Nashville Metropolitan Planning Commission approval as of the sources' dates, so status is proposed. Coordinates are a geocode of Herman Street within 37208, not a parcel; no source states lat/lon. No subsidy agreement is mentioned in either source.
Don Hardin, whose construction management firm is a partner on the project, said Nashville Electric Service assured developers it can handle the facility's 30-megawatt need (WSMV, 2026-06-08). No on-site generation is described in either source.
Sources and provenance
- Fisk University looks to build data center in Nashville, Tennessee · source retrieved 2026-09-09
- What to know about the data center planned for Nashville HBCU Fisk University's campus · source retrieved 2026-09-09
- Will a Data Center Bring Risk or Reward to Fisk? (Inside Higher Ed, Aug 7, 2026) · source retrieved 2026-09-21
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.