Project River Data Center

Facility record

Lifecycle

ProposedSource-reported lifecycle

Location precision

approximate

Address as listed

Not published

Coordinates

35.3314339, -84.8686025

Serving utility, source-reported

Tennessee Valley Authority

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

The data-center tenant is not confirmed. Wright Brothers Construction CEO Mitchell Simpson told Mix 104.1 WCLE on 2026-08-26 that the power plant is certain but its offtaker is not: "We definitely know we're developing a power plant... We don't know what it's going to power yet... It potentially could be a data center, but it very well could be something else," naming advanced manufacturing, robotics and semiconductor manufacturing as alternatives, before adding that with that much power "it's very likely going to be that." The company's own 2026-08-26 release describes the campus as "anchored by an on-site power plant and data center." The record is marked reported for that reason. Roughly 850 acres of privately-owned Wright family land west of I-75 and north of Old Lower River Road NW, along the Hiwassee River in northern Bradley County near I-75 Exit 33, submitted for rezoning and annexation into the City of Cleveland on 2026-08-25. The $11.3bn headline is the whole campus; $7.3bn is the data-center portion as itemised in press coverage. Groundbreaking is not expected until end of 2027 and the build is phased over 60 months. Coordinates are a geocode of Lower River Road NW, not the parcel; no source states lat/lon. No state or local incentive agreement is named in any of the three sources.

Powered behind the meter by the co-located Project River energy campus (500 MW biomass plus 1,000 MW natural gas), with a requested 360 MW TVA interconnection for backup and peaking only. Developers say no diesel generators.

Sources and provenance

• Project River — An Industrial Energy Campus That Supplies Itself · source retrieved 2026-09-09
• Proponents Of Bradley County Project With Large-Scale Data Center Cite Tax Benefits · source retrieved 2026-09-09
• $11.3B data center pitch in Bradley County comes amid growing local skepticism · 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.