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Satellite view of the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio on June 24, 2026: the large white process buildings and paved yards of the existing plant at left, ringed by a perimeter road, with farmland, woodland and open fields covering the surrounding acreage where the PORTS Technology Campus is planned.

SB Energy's 10 GW Ohio Campus Is Raising Capital Faster Than It Is Moving Dirt

SB Energy's 10 GW Piketon campus has a $250B Nvidia backstop in talks and no visible construction since its March groundbreaking.

Juan Felipe Hernandez

Juan Felipe Hernandez

Data Center Analyst at aterio.io

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Aerial view of a Microsoft data center campus surrounded by farmland, with rows of low white server buildings, backup generator yards and electrical substations under a cloudy sky.

Microsoft Restarts the Three Ohio Campuses It Cancelled in 2025, Roughly 869 MW

Microsoft cancelled roughly 869 MW of Ohio data center capacity in April 2025, and all three Licking County campuses are now grading toward a 2029 target.

Javier Reyes

Javier Reyes

Data Analyst at aterio.io

Side-by-side satellite comparison of Microsoft's Boyd Farm data center campus in Catawba County, North Carolina, dated November 11, 2025 and February 10, 2026, with a new electrical substation cluster and freshly graded building pad in the south of the campus circled in the later image

Microsoft Restarts Its Three Paused North Carolina Data Center Campuses, Up to 810 MW

Microsoft's three paused Catawba County data center campuses, up to 810 MW, are moving again, caught by Aterio's satellite imagery in early 2026.

Javier Reyes

Javier Reyes

Data Analyst at aterio.io

Site plan of the Tarboro Net Zero data center campus on aerial imagery, off Anaconda Road in Tarboro, North Carolina, showing the project area with two buildings, a chiller yard, an on-site generation yard, a BESS yard, and the Tarboro electric substation.

Tarboro's 'Net Zero' Data Center Runs on Gas, and the Town Voted It Down 7-1

Tarboro's $6.4B 'Net Zero' data center runs on gas and an unproven carbon sponge, not solar, and the town rejected the permit 7-1.

Caio Cunha

Caio Cunha

Energy Analyst at Aterio

Site plan of Williams' Socrates North power plant in New Albany, Ohio, overlaid on satellite imagery in the OPSB staff report for case 25-0188-EL-BGN, showing rows of CAT 3520 reciprocating engines, Titan 130, Titan 250, and SGT-400 gas turbines, mobile SMT 130 units, transformers, C15 backup generators, a gas yard, control building, sound wall, fence line, and a temporary laydown yard off Green Chapel Road NW

Socrates: Williams Is Building a 2 GW Off-Grid Power Fleet for Meta in New Albany, Ohio

Williams's Socrates is a 2.3 GW behind-the-meter power fleet for Meta in New Albany, Ohio: 1,486 MW of gas generation plus 838 MW / 1,676 MWh of storage.

Carlos Sarmiento

Carlos Sarmiento

Energy Analyst at aterio.io

Pléiades-Neo satellite image of Bell's AI Fabric data centre campus under construction in Sherwood, Saskatchewan, near Regina, on May 9, 2026, showing cleared and graded earth next to an existing SaskPower substation

Satellite Imagery Confirms Bell's 300 MW AI Campus Is Under Construction in Saskatchewan

Bell's 300 MW Saskatchewan AI campus is 100% pre-sold, but its $12B headline is mostly tenant compute, not Bell's $1.7B.

Data Center Research Team

Data Center Research Team

Research at Aterio

Site map of BrightNight's Red Butte project, the data center site with adjacent gas and BESS blocks inside the site boundary, near Antelope Springs Road in Iron County, Utah.

Red Butte: BrightNight Becomes the Data-Center Developer on Its Own 1.5 GW Utah Site

BrightNight's Red Butte would power a 1.5 GW Utah AI data center entirely on-site, but a 180-day county moratorium has put it on hold.

Jordan Pin

Jordan Pin

Energy Analyst at aterio.io

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Aterio tracks generation projects across the United States, gas, solar, wind, storage and behind the meter builds, from first filing through construction and into commercial operation.

These notes look at who is adding capacity, where it lands on the grid and how quickly it can serve new load. Data center growth is now one of the largest drivers of new generation, so we follow the interconnection queues, the utility resource plans and the private power deals that decide whether announced megawatts become real ones.