Project dossier · Gallatin, Tennessee

Meta Gallatin Operating

Chip types: B300. Epoch AI estimates ~87 MW.

Key facts

Operator
Meta
Owner
Meta
Size
87 MW
Location
Gallatin, Tennessee
Stage today
Operating

Source
read 2026-08-14

What to do next

Next step: Already operating — the leverage now is enforcement: noise and water conditions, tax revenue tracking, and any expansion filing, which reopens the record.

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What has happened so far (13 events)

  • 2020-05-01filing
    Woolhawk LLC (later revealed as Facebook) acquired 809 acres in Gallatin for approximately $15-20 million for a planned data center campus; the project was referred to as 'Project Woolhawk' by local officials. · source
  • 2020-05-11incentive
    Gallatin's Industrial Development Board advanced a PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) agreement for Woolhawk LLC with 20-year tax abatement terms starting at $1 million per year for the first building and decreasing to $550,000 for the sixth building. · source
  • 2020-08-11announcement
    Facebook announced an $800 million, 982,000-square-foot data center in Gallatin, Tennessee, culminating a three-year recruitment effort by the Gallatin EDA and TVA; the facility would support approximately 100 permanent jobs. · source
  • 2020-08-12announcement
    Facebook confirmed the Gallatin data center as its 13th in the U.S., revealing the 809-acre site was purchased under Woolhawk LLC for $20 million and that the city approved $19.5 million in tax breaks; the first building was expected in approximately two years with a second 18 months later. · source
  • 2020-08-12construction
    Facebook broke ground on the Gallatin data center campus, with DPR Construction as general contractor; the facility was designed to use 80% less water than an average data center, achieve LEED Gold certification, and run on 100% renewable energy. · source
  • 2020-08-12utility
    Facebook announced it had signed contracts for 220 MW of new solar energy generation in Tennessee through a partnership with TVA to support the Gallatin data center. · source
  • 2020-08-12coverage
    Data Center Frontier reported the Gallatin project as Facebook's third data center announcement since the COVID-19 pandemic began, following DeKalb, Illinois and Prineville, Oregon expansions. · source
  • 2022-09-23announcement
    Meta announced a nearly $1 billion expansion of the Gallatin campus with two new structures totaling approximately 2 million square feet, including a cold storage facility, with peak construction workforce reaching 1,700 workers. · source
  • 2023-01-01operational
    Meta's first data center building on the Gallatin campus became fully operational in 2023, designated GTN 1, a two-story H-shaped building on 800 acres at 1 Meta Loop. · source
  • 2024-04-15filing
    Meta filed plans for a fourth data center on its Gallatin campus, a 278,000-square-foot building shaped like a stretched plus sign representing a 17% increase to its existing footprint, with a public work session set for April 29 and a vote scheduled for May 20, 2024. · source
  • 2024-05-20vote
    Gallatin approved Meta's fourth data center building on the campus, a 276,000-square-foot structure that would bring total campus space to approximately 1.9 million square feet with total investment well beyond $1 billion. · source
  • 2024-11-15operational
    Meta officially launched its Gallatin data center campus as operational, with total investment exceeding $1.5 billion across four buildings totaling more than 1.7 million square feet and over 100 permanent employees; the Nashville Business Journal called it one of the top five largest business investments in Tennessee history. · source
  • 2024-11-15coverage
    The Tennessee Municipal League reported Meta's Gallatin data center began operations, noting the company's partnership with TVA supports eight Meta projects adding 530 MW of renewable energy to Tennessee and that Meta had donated over $1 million to local nonprofits and school systems. · source

Find the paper trail

Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)

State environmental permits

Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.

  • Tennessee TDECThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
  • TDEC DataviewersSearchable public filings — search the operator, the shell LLC on the deed, and the address.

County & town filings

The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.

  • Search Gallatin planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
  • Search Gallatin property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.

Utility & grid records

The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.

Federal databases

Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.

  • EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 36.390, -86.440 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
  • EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
  • EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.

These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.

Recent news

4 stories tracked since 2026-06-23 across 3 outlets. 4× Local officials are moving to pause or block the project. Most recent: “Gallatin city council advances 12-month data center moratorium for vote next week” (WZTV, 2026-09-09).

Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 4 headlines archived.

Around here

Other tracked projects in Tennessee

Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Meta Gallatin”, aigridwatch.com/projects/meta-gallatin, retrieved 2026-10-11.

As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing

A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.

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