Meta, OpenAI and ByteDance dominate a month of projects where capacities are now expressed in gigawatts, and where Brazil and Finland enter the game.
The monthly census of data center projects published by Data Center Knowledge gives the measure of the scale reached in the summer of 2026. Meta announces more than $9 billion for a one-gigawatt facility in Sturgeon County, Alberta, with a peak of around 3,000 workers and more than 300 permanent jobs at stake, and is also continuing the expansion of its Hyperion campus in Louisiana to a 5 GW "supercluster".
The gigawatt as a unit of account
OpenAI is on the table with Project Camellia, in Effingham County, Georgia, whose documentation filed with Georgia Power reports 3,210 MW. These orders of magnitude, which were still exceptional two years ago, now structure negotiations with grid operators well before the first server is installed.
The movement goes far beyond North America. ByteDance is committing $38.4 billion in Brazil, to the Pecém port complex in Ceará, with 200 MW in the first phase and a possible extension to 1 GW. In Finland, Pure Data Centres Group is opening a first phase in Seinäjoki of 1.5 billion euros for 110 MW, extendable to 7.5 billion euros and more than 550 MW. In Texas, Galaxy Digital is counting on 74 MW in the first phase and CyrusOne on 460,000 square feet for $500 million.
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