Meta Sarpy Under construction
Chip types: B300. Epoch AI estimates ~80 MW.
Key facts
- Operator
- Meta
- Owner
- Meta
- Size
- 80 MW
- Location
- Springfield (Sarpy County), Nebraska
- Stage today
- Under construction
Source
read 2026-08-14
What to do next
Next step: Under construction — pull the approved conditions and permits and hold the builder to them; an expansion or a new building reopens the record.
What has happened so far (4 events)
- 2017-01-01announcement
Meta's info sheet states the company broke ground on the Sarpy Data Center in 2017, with a total investment of over $2.5 billion in Nebraska. · source - 2021-03-24announcement
Facebook announced an expansion of its Sarpy County data center campus to approximately 3.6 million square feet across 8 buildings on roughly 500 acres, with total investment at that time of approximately $1.5 billion and a 2024 completion target. · source - 2022-07-28announcement
Meta announced it was adding a ninth facility to the Sarpy Data Center campus in Springfield; county records showed Meta pays $3.8 million in property taxes between two parcels of land. · source - 2022-09-21construction
Construction was halted at the Meta data center in Sarpy County after racist graffiti was found on site for a recurring time, with contractor Turner Construction stopping work at the $1.5 billion project. · 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.
- Nebraska Dept. of Environment & EnergyThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
- Search Nebraska Dept. of Environment & Energy for this projectsearchThis state publishes no searchable permit database, so a written records request to the agency is the reliable route. Use this search only to find the right office.
County & town filings
The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.
- Search Springfield (Sarpy County) 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 Springfield (Sarpy County) 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.
- Southwest Power Pool (Plains) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
- Nebraska Power Review Board — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
- FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
- Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.
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 41.090, -96.130 — 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.
Around here
- Nebraska briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in Nebraska
- Google Omaha — Omaha, 5 mi In review
- Google Papillion — Papillion, 6 mi Under construction
- Google Lincoln — Lincoln, 35 mi In review
- Kearney Data Center — Kearney, 156 mi Awaiting decision
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Meta Sarpy”, aigridwatch.com/projects/meta-sarpy, 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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