Introducing the AI Data Center Database

The biggest developers of artificial intelligence closely guard their state-of-the-art technology, but they’re arguably even more secretive about the specialized data centers needed to develop it.

The Information is lifting the veil on existing and planned AI data centers, sometimes known as supercomputers or AI chip clusters, in a first-of-its-kind database. The accompanying map lists 17 supercomputing data centers in seven U.S. states that are in operation or planned by companies such as Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta Platforms and Elon Musk’s xAI. Click here to read our AI Data Center Database.

In total, the facilities on our database that are still in development or planning stages could cost more than $50 billion to build, including around $35 billion worth of AI server chips made by Nvidia, and many more billions to operate.