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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory On-Premises Next-Gen AI Compute Data Center

Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryRichland, Benton County, WAUpdated

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has proposed a 40 MW data center in Benton County, Washington (proposed). One source reports this facility in the Kapwork Grow tracker.

Capacity
40 MW
Expected completion
2028
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Who's on this build

Named in the cited sources. No source reports who builds it.

  • Operator

    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Schedule

Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred.

  1. in 2 yr

    Expected completionPlanned

  2. Today

    Proposed

    Last material change Sep 24, 2026.

  3. 7 mo ago

    Announced

  4. 7 mo ago

    Reported as announced

    Event date: · First observed: Not reported

Reported updates without an event date

Record quality

Datasets
1
Location
Approximate: city centroid
Summary
From published records
Source as of
Last material change

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Site and infrastructure

SC Server CountryKW Kapwork Grow tracker record

Status

Operator
Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryOperator · Server CountryServer Country project record (CC BY 4.0)As of Sep 24, 2026 · Record: 0866
Stage
ProposedStage · Server CountryServer Country project record (CC BY 4.0)As of Sep 24, 2026 · Record: 0866
Facility type
AI data centerFacility type · Kapwork Grow tracker recordKapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here (free account)As of Sep 23, 2026 · Record: 196301082370553

Scale

Reported capacity
40 MWReported capacity · Server CountryServer Country project record (CC BY 4.0)As of Sep 24, 2026 · Record: 0866

Reported dates

Announced
2026-02-25Announced · Server CountryServer Country project record (CC BY 4.0)As of Sep 24, 2026 · Record: 0866Reported date — see the source for the event evidenced.
Expected completion
2028Expected completion · Server CountryServer Country project record (CC BY 4.0)As of Sep 24, 2026 · Record: 0866

Site

City
RichlandCity · Server CountryServer Country project record (CC BY 4.0)As of Sep 24, 2026 · Record: 0866
County
Benton CountyCounty · Server CountryServer Country project record (CC BY 4.0)As of Sep 24, 2026 · Record: 0866
State
WashingtonState · Server CountryServer Country project record (CC BY 4.0)As of Sep 24, 2026 · Record: 0866
Location precision
Approximate: city centroidLocation precision · Kapwork Grow tracker recordKapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here (free account)As of Sep 23, 2026 · Record: 196301082370553

Power and cooling

AI workload
AI or machine-learning workload reportedAI workload · Kapwork Grow tracker recordKapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here (free account)As of Sep 23, 2026 · Record: 196301082370553

Sources, method and limits

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What each source reports

What each source reports
DatasetReported nameReported statusReported MW
Server CountryPacific Northwest National Laboratory On-Premises Next-Gen AI Compute Data CenterProposed40 MW

Sources and evidence

  1. SC
    Server Country project record (CC BY 4.0)As of: Sep 24, 2026 · Record: 0866
  2. KW

Limitations and interpretation

  • This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-09-23. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
  • Sources on this record: Server Country, https://servercountry.org/data/ (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
  • An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
  • Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.

Cite or correct this record

Kapwork Grow, “Pacific Northwest National Laboratory On-Premises Next-Gen AI Compute Data Center”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/pacific-northwest-national-laboratory-on-premises-next-gen-ai-compute-data-center-wa-dc_b288e848a1f9, materially updated Sep 24, 2026.

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An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order. Capacity and dates are as reported by the cited sources. “Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.

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