04BBuildout · frontier site· cluster ledger evidence retained through 2026-10-25
Independence AI factory AI datacenter
Nebius · Independence, Missouri. The ledger records it as under construction, with 1.2 GW planned. Every figure below traces to a dated public source.
Ledger figures
- Operator
- Nebius
- Location
- Independence, Missouri
- Status
- Under construction
- Current power
- No public figure
- Planned power
- 1.2 GWBasis not specified
- Accelerators
- Nebius AI cloud (chips undisclosed)
- Announced
- 2026-03-03
- First power
- No public date
- Target online
- No public date
Nebius’s first gigawatt-scale US project, ~400 acres in eastern Independence, developed and operated by Nebius (no tenant named). Ground broken May 12, 2026; no capacity date published.
Current and planned figures may use different power bases. Planned power is the end state, not additional capacity to add to the current figure. An unspecified basis remains unknown. A figure marked est rests on at least one source other than the operator’s own announcement.
Sources behind each figure
- Planned power Independence AI factory with potential capacity of up to 1.2 GW — Nebius,
- Accelerators Nebius-owned AI factory; no GPU model or customer named — Nebius,
- Announced Independence City Council approves Nebius’s plan for its first gigawatt-scale AI factory, Mar 3, 2026 — Nebius,
- Status Ground broken May 12, 2026; construction of the first phase now underway — Nebius,
Background reading: Nebius on AI Wiki. AI Wiki is run by the same team as AI Compute Tracker.