2026: compute
Selekoa’s 32 compute records dated 2026, in date order, of 580 in all topics. 16 stated dates are listed apart.
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January 2026
· announcement · dated to the day · plan
Elon Musk was quoted in the Mississippi release as saying MACROHARDRR "pushes our Colossus training compute to ~2GW"; the release also says the Southaven data center will increase the company's computing power to nearly 2 gigawatts. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · announced
The Mississippi governor's office announced on 8 January 2026 that xAI is locating a data center, MACROHARDRR, in Southaven, in a building xAI has purchased and is retrofitting, with operations expected to begin in February 2026. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · commitment
Meta announced on 9 January 2026 a partnership with Oklo supporting an advanced nuclear campus in Pike County, Ohio, which may come online as early as 2030 and add up to 1.2 GW to the PJM market, with Meta's funding supporting early procurement and development. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · commitment
Meta announced on 9 January 2026 an agreement providing funding for the development of two TerraPower Natrium units of up to 690 MW with delivery as early as 2032, and rights to energy from up to six further units of 2.1 GW targeted for delivery by 2035. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · contract
Meta announced on 9 January 2026 20-year nuclear energy agreements to purchase more than 2.1 GW from Vistra's Perry and Davis-Besse plants in Ohio and energy from uprates at those plants and Beaver Valley in Pennsylvania, the uprates totalling 433 MW expected in the early 2030s. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day
Axiom Space states that its first two orbital data centre nodes launched to low Earth orbit on 11 January 2026, with the first tranche of Kepler Communications' optical relay constellation. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the day
The UK government's January 2026 progress update stated that it had designated 5 AI Growth Zones across Great Britain, including 2 in Wales and one in Scotland, generating £28.2 billion in investment. Evidence ↗
February 2026
· announcement · dated to the day
In its 2 February 2026 update on acquiring xAI, SpaceX stated a plan to launch a constellation of a million satellites operating as orbital data centres. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day
Science and Technology Daily, relayed on ncsti.gov.cn, reported Zhejiang Lab as stating that the constellation's first mission reached an overall in-orbit computing power of 5 POPS and had deployed and verified 10 AI models and applications in orbit. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the day
Science and Technology Daily, relayed on ncsti.gov.cn, described the Three-Body Computing Constellation as a thousand-satellite-scale space computing infrastructure that Zhejiang Lab is building with global partners, and stated that its first 12 computing satellites entered orbit on 14 May 2025. Evidence ↗
March 2026
· announcement · dated to the day
NVIDIA announced on 16 March 2026 its Space-1 Vera Rubin Module for orbital data centres, stating that its Rubin GPU delivers up to 25 times the AI compute of an H100 for space-based inferencing and that it will be available at a later date. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day
Crusoe stated on 27 March 2026 that the first two buildings of its Abilene campus had been energized and that the second phase was expected to reach completion by the end of 2026. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · plan
Crusoe stated that the new campus brings the total projected capacity across the full Abilene site to 2.1 gigawatts. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · announced
Crusoe announced on 27 March 2026 a new 900 MW AI factory campus in Abilene, adjacent to its existing campus, to support large-scale AI workloads for Microsoft, with land clearing underway and the first building expected to be energized in mid-2027. Evidence ↗
April 2026
· announcement · dated to the day · contract
Anthropic named Broadcom as a counterparty to a signed agreement for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · contract
Anthropic named Google as a counterparty to a signed agreement for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · commitment
Amazon reported Anthropic’s commitment to spend over $100 billion on AWS technologies over ten years, securing up to 5 GW of capacity. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · contract
Microsoft states that OpenAI products will ship first on Azure, subject to the announcement’s capability exception. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · contract
Microsoft states that the amended agreement permits OpenAI to serve all its products across any cloud provider. Evidence ↗
June 2026
· announcement · dated to the day
The Commission announced on 3 June 2026, as part of its tech sovereignty package, a Strategic Roadmap for Digitalisation and AI in the Energy Sector, stating that growth of digital infrastructure is expected to increase electricity demand and that the roadmap will ensure data centres are integrated into the energy system in a sustainable and transparent manner. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day
Microsoft announced on 23 June 2026 that it had completed construction of its first Mount Pleasant datacenter facility, after bringing equipment online in April, and that the facility was fully operational. Evidence ↗
August 2026
September 2026
· announcement · dated to the day · contract
Constellation and Amazon announced on 30 September 2026 a 20-year agreement covering 690 MW of power from the Calvert Cliffs plant in Maryland, including an uprate of approximately 190 MW expected online between 2030 and 2032, with a related retail supply agreement for Amazon operations in PJM. Evidence ↗
October 2026
· announcement · dated to the day
Axiom Space stated on 6 October 2026 that it operates two ARCs on orbit and has confirmed ARC-to-ARC and ARC-to-ground communications. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · contract
Constellation stated on 6 October 2026 that it and Google had also entered into a 15-year energy supply agreement for an additional 2,700 MW from Constellation's fleet in PJM. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · contract
Google and Constellation announced on 6 October 2026 a 20-year power purchase agreement to bring 890 MW of new nuclear capacity onto the PJM grid through uprates at 11 Constellation-owned units in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with the first uprate expected by 2028. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day
LandSpace stated that at 19:40 Beijing time on 14 October 2026 its Zhuque-2E Y4 rocket, launched from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation test zone, placed ten satellites in their planned orbit, among them eight ADA Space Xingshidai satellites (39 and 44 to 50) built by ADA Space mainly to verify high-performance computing payloads, inter-satellite and satellite-to-ground laser communication and large radiative cooling wings. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · announced
Amazon announced on 19 October 2026 that it, X-energy and AEP had signed an agreement to explore deploying twelve Xe-100 small modular reactors in Indiana, adding 960 MW to serve the regional grid and Amazon's data centers, with Amazon serving as project development funder and stated to be the first customer to purchase power from the plant once operational. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
EuroHPC JU states that 76 expressions of interest proposing AI gigafactories in 16 Member States across 60 sites were submitted to the call that closed on 20 June 2025. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Cowboy Space Corporation's homepage describes Stampede, a constellation of satellites using solar power in low Earth orbit to run on-orbit GPU data centres. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Starcloud states that in December (2025, by context) Starcloud-1 ran a version of Gemini and trained an LLM, the nanoGPT model. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Starcloud states that Starcloud-2, its first commercial mission with a GPU cluster, will be fully operational in sun-synchronous orbit by 2027. Evidence ↗
Dates stated for 2026 16 dates
Each date as its record gives it, with who stated it. A target, deadline or term says what a party said would happen; a reported date says what a party said happened; a scheduled date had not been reached when the record’s sources were last checked. None is a dated record of what happened.
(as worded: “Q1 2026”) · Launch target · stated by Huawei / 华为
Eric Xu stated, in Huawei’s published keynote transcript, at Huawei Connect on 18 September 2025 that over the next three years Huawei would work on three new Ascend chip series (950, 960 and 970), with the Ascend 950PR to be available in the first quarter of 2026, the 950DT in the fourth quarter of 2026, the 960 in the fourth quarter of 2027 and the 970 planned for the fourth quarter of 2028. Evidence ↗(as worded: “Q4 2026”) · Launch target · stated by Huawei / 华为
Eric Xu stated, in Huawei’s published keynote transcript, at Huawei Connect on 18 September 2025 that over the next three years Huawei would work on three new Ascend chip series (950, 960 and 970), with the Ascend 950PR to be available in the first quarter of 2026, the 950DT in the fourth quarter of 2026, the 960 in the fourth quarter of 2027 and the 970 planned for the fourth quarter of 2028. Evidence ↗(as worded: “early 2026”) · Operation target · stated by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)
AMD and HUMAIN announced on 13 May 2025 an agreement under which the parties will invest up to $10 billion to deploy 500 megawatts of AI compute capacity over five years, with HUMAIN delivering the data-centre, power and fibre infrastructure and AMD providing its AI compute portfolio and ROCm software. Evidence ↗(as worded: “second half of 2026”) · Delivery target · stated by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)
AMD and OpenAI announced on 6 October 2025, in a joint release, a definitive agreement under which OpenAI is to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs across multiple generations, beginning with a 1 gigawatt deployment of MI450 GPUs set to start in the second half of 2026. Evidence ↗(as worded: “second half of 2026”) · Delivery target · stated by Broadcom
The joint OpenAI–Broadcom release of 13 October 2025 announced a collaboration for 10 gigawatts of custom AI accelerators designed by OpenAI and developed and deployed with Broadcom, with deployment of racks targeted to start in the second half of 2026 and to be completed by the end of 2029. Evidence ↗(as worded: “second half of 2026”) · Delivery target · stated by NVIDIA
OpenAI and NVIDIA announced on 22 September 2025, in a joint release on NVIDIA's newsroom, a letter of intent for a partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s AI infrastructure, with the first gigawatt targeted for the second half of 2026 on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. Evidence ↗(as worded: “mid-2026”) · Completion target · stated by Crusoe
Crusoe stated that with the second phase its Abilene facility would total eight buildings and a total power capacity of 1.2 gigawatts. Evidence ↗(as worded: “by the end of 2026”) · Completion target · stated by Crusoe
Crusoe stated on 27 March 2026 that the first two buildings of its Abilene campus had been energized and that the second phase was expected to reach completion by the end of 2026. Evidence ↗· Operation target · stated by Meta
Mark Zuckerberg said on the same call that the Prometheus cluster was "coming online next year" and that Meta thought it would be "the world's first 1GW+ cluster". Evidence ↗· Operation target · stated by SoftBank Group
The September 2025 release stated that SoftBank had broken ground at the Lordstown, Ohio site, which it said was on track to be operational the following year. Evidence ↗(as worded: “early 2026”) · Construction start target · stated by Related Digital
OpenAI, Oracle and Related Digital announced on 30 October 2025 plans to develop a data center campus with more than a gigawatt of capacity in Saline Township, Michigan, as part of the OpenAI–Oracle 4.5 GW partnership. Evidence ↗· Operation target · stated by G42
G42, OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, SoftBank Group and Cisco announced on 22 May 2025 Stargate UAE, a 1-gigawatt compute cluster to be built by G42 and operated by OpenAI and Oracle within the UAE–US AI Campus. Evidence ↗· Delivery target · stated by G42
G42 stated on 16 October 2025 that construction of the first 200MW of Stargate UAE, developed by its company Khazna Data Centers, was well underway toward a planned 2026 delivery. Evidence ↗(as worded: “Q1 2026”) · Delivery target · stated by Nscale
Nscale stated that OpenAI "will explore offtake of up to 8,000 NVIDIA GPUs in Q1 2026", with potential to scale to 31,000 GPUs; the UK government's release of the next day said the first phase "will see OpenAI take up to 8,000 GPUs". Evidence ↗· Operation target · stated by xAI
The Mississippi governor's office announced on 8 January 2026 that xAI is locating a data center, MACROHARDRR, in Southaven, in a building xAI has purchased and is retrofitting, with operations expected to begin in February 2026. Evidence ↗· Operation start reported · stated by Microsoft
Microsoft announced on 23 June 2026 that it had completed construction of its first Mount Pleasant datacenter facility, after bringing equipment online in April, and that the facility was fully operational. Evidence ↗