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PORTS-Pike Technology Campus

SB Energy · Piketon, OH · United States

Facility record

Lifecycle
Under constructionSource-reported lifecycle
Location precision
approximate
Address as listed
Not published
Coordinates
39.06, -83.02
Serving utility, source-reported
AEP OhioView utility impact evidence
Operational capacity, source-reported
Not published
Planned capacity, source-reported
10000 MW
Source record updated
2026-10-28

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

  1. Under construction

    Groundbreaking 2026-03-20 on the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant site; 10 GW gross power load, 9.2 GW of new natural gas generation.

    Underlying source

Source notes

Officially "PORTS-Pike Technology Campus"; formerly tracked under the pre-announcement Ohio entity New Day Data Centers LLC, a name that appears nowhere in the SEC S-1 or SB Energy’s own announcements. Developer/operator is SB Energy (SoftBank-controlled); the DOE lease was signed 2026-02-26 by its subsidiary Pike County Portsmouth DC LLC. Capacity: three distinct figures: 8.0 GW-IT of contracted compute (8,024 MW-IT; NVIDIA guarantees the initial 4.25 GW-IT with an option on the remaining 3.78 GW-IT), 10 GW of gross power load (the planned capacity recorded here), and 9.2 GW of new gas generation. Offtake: on 2026-08-17 SB Energy subsidiaries signed 17 twenty-year triple-net leases with OpenAI, with rent commencement conditioned on interconnection and generation being available; NVIDIA provided a residual-value guaranty capped at $105B and separately bought $1.5B of non-voting stock. Land: the land area is not recorded - the DOE lease covers 189 acres (Batch 1) on which "one data center building is expected to be constructed", while the S-1 places the buildings "across several thousand acres of private property"; the widely-cited 3,700/3,777 acres is the whole federal reservation, which also hosts the separately tracked Oklo Aurora project, Centrus and the DUF6 plant. Investment: no investment figure is recorded - $10B (DOE, March) and $30-40B (project site) describe the same ~800 MW first phase and cannot both be right, the $67.2B total appears only as one trade outlet’s unattributed rollup, and the S-1 states no total capex. Subsidies: none awarded - the Ohio Tax Credit Authority minutes record no award, no JobsOhio award was found as of September 2026, and Ohio paused new data-centre tax exemptions in May 2026; a county PILOT is under negotiation because the leased federal land yields no property tax. Status: early civil works began after the 2026-03-20 groundbreaking, though the S-1 lists construction as not started, with first capacity in 2028 and full buildout 2032. Distinct from the Oklo Aurora Powerhouse on the same broader site. A March 2026 U.S. Department of Energy fact sheet states more than 2,000 operational jobs, while the developer's project site lists 2,500 operating jobs.

S-1: the campus is "designed to include 8.0 GW-IT of data center capacity, representing 10 GW of gross power load expected to be supported by the PJM transmission system and new neighboring gas-fired generation facilities" - hence the energy source is recorded as a mix of sources. The 9.2 GW of gas is new build, not a reused plant; the site is the former Portsmouth uranium-enrichment complex, whose historic power came over OVEC coal-fired transmission (X-533 switchyard, de-energised 2008, decommissioned 2011). Recorded under on-site generation as dedicated captive generation, but note the S-1 calls the plants "neighboring": they sit ~5 miles south of Piketon adjacent to the DOE site, are developed by "an affiliate of SoftBank that is not our subsidiary", and SB Energy "do[es] not expect to own or operate" them. Ohio Power Siting Board case 26-0746-EL-BGN (applicant Portsmouth Gas DevCo, LLC) covers only a first tranche of "up to 2 gigawatts"; as of October 2026 OPSB's case-tracking data lists 1,770 MW in 48 units on 775 acres for that case, its application took effect 2026-10-15, a local public hearing is set for 2026-12-10 in Piketon and the evidentiary hearing for 2027-01-06, and at least nine petitions for leave to intervene were filed on 2026-10-13 and 2026-10-14 (the docket entry titles do not state their positions); a second case by the same applicant, 26-1070-EL-BGN, was opened 2026-10-15 and lists 5,000 MW with no application date; AEP Ohio transmission is separate from the generation case: AEP's Piketon Area Improvements hub lists the Baku-Gavin 765 kV line (OPSB 26-0426-EL-BTX), a planned Hanging Rock-Baku 765 kV line (26-0870-EL-BTX), the Baku 765 kV and Monza 345 kV stations, and two Baku extension lines (26-0866/0867/0868/0869-EL-BLN); an earlier description cited "four substations". AEP grid capex is stated as $4.2B by DOE and ~$5.1B in the S-1, unreconciled. Caution: the project site states the gas generation "will be owned by the U.S. Government", but the S-1 says "no binding agreement has been executed between us or any of our affiliates and any governmental entity with respect to the funding, construction, ownership or operation of the generation facilities" - do not assert federal ownership. Only ~0.8 GW of gross load has contracted utility service so far.

Sources and provenance

Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.

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