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2017 AI Data Center Feed

Chronological feed for 2017 using the best public timeline year available for each tracked facility.

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Feed items are ordered by the strongest public timeline year available for each tracked facility. Use the HTML page for scanning and the XML endpoint for readers, alerting, or downstream tooling.

Chronological Entries

Meta — Fort Worth, Texas AI Training Campus
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
2017
Operational350 MW

Meta's Fort Worth, Texas data center campus is one of the company's primary AI training sites in the United States. The campus, which has expanded multiple times since opening in 2017, hosts dense GPU clusters used to train and fine-tune Me

Google — Frankfurt AI Data Center (Europe-West3)
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
2017
Operational200 MW

Google Cloud's Frankfurt region (europe-west3), launched in 2017, is Google's primary German AI cloud infrastructure and serves the German-speaking market — Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH) — under strict German and EU data protecti

Microsoft Azure — Korea Central Region (Seoul)
Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
2017
Operational200 MW

Microsoft Azure Korea Central — the Seoul region — is Microsoft's primary South Korean cloud and AI infrastructure hub, launched in 2017 alongside the paired Korea South (Busan) region. Operating facilities in the Seoul metropolitan area, i

Google — London AI Data Center (Europe-West2)
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
2017
Operational180 MW

Google Cloud's London region (europe-west2), launched in July 2017, is Google's primary UK AI infrastructure facility and serves as the deployment zone for Google Cloud AI services under UK data residency requirements. The region is closely

Google — Sydney AI Data Center (Australia-Southeast1)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2017
Operational120 MW

Google Cloud's Sydney region (australia-southeast1), launched in 2017, is Google's primary Australian AI infrastructure facility and serves the Australian and New Zealand market under Australian Privacy Act requirements. The facility provid

AWS EU (Paris) Region (eu-west-3)
Paris area / France cloud region, France
2017
Operational

AWS EU (Paris), programmatic region `eu-west-3`, is a cloud-region record rather than a single verified data-center facility. AWS documentation records the Europe (Paris) Region launch on December 18, 2017, and AWS launch material described

Google Cloud India Regions (Mumbai and Delhi NCR)
Mumbai and Delhi NCR cloud regions, India
2017
Operational

Google Cloud India Regions tracks Google's Mumbai `asia-south1` and Delhi NCR cloud-region footprint, not a single physical data-center facility. Google Cloud announced the Mumbai region on November 1, 2017, as its first Google Cloud Platfo

Meta Henrico Data Center (Virginia)
Henrico County, Virginia, United States
2017
Operational

Meta's public Virginia data-center record is the Henrico Data Center, not an Ashburn campus. Meta lists Henrico, Virginia in its U.S. data-center fleet with more than $1 billion of investment, 2017 groundbreaking, 1,500 skilled-trade worker

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - US East (Ashburn)
Ashburn, Northern Virginia, United States
2017
Operational

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure lists US East (Ashburn) as `us-ashburn-1`, located in Ashburn, Virginia, with three availability domains in the commercial OC1 realm. Oracle announced immediate availability of Bare Metal Cloud Services from US E