Meta’s new Indiana campus is the company’s largest single data center build to date and one of the largest hyperscale projects under construction anywhere in North America.

The $10 billion campus sits on 1,500 acres in the LEAP Innovation and Research District in Lebanon, Indiana, about 30 miles northwest of Indianapolis. When fully online, it will deliver 1 gigawatt of compute capacity across approximately 4 million square feet of building area, with 10 dedicated data center structures plus three support buildings handling logistics, networking, and administration.

Project Scope

The campus broke ground in February 2026 with Turner Construction and Mortenson splitting the GC scope across the 13-building program. At peak construction, the project is expected to support more than 4,000 craft workers on site, ramping in waves as data hall shells, mechanical and electrical fit-outs, and utility tie-ins phase through the campus.

The build is engineered around AI workload density rather than general-purpose cloud capacity. Each data center building is designed to support liquid-cooled racks running at higher per-square-foot density than Meta’s earlier campuses, with mechanical packages built around closed-loop liquid cooling systems that reuse cooling water rather than relying on evaporative loss. That’s a meaningful design shift for a Midwest site where water rights and aquifer drawdown have been the political flashpoint on most recent data center builds.

Power delivery is being staged through Duke Energy with a mix of natural gas, grid power, and Meta’s portfolio of contracted renewables. Meta has not disclosed the specific PPA structure, but campus filings reference more than 5 GW of contracted renewables across Meta’s broader data center portfolio. The Lebanon site is targeting LEED Gold certification, with credit work focused on water reuse, low-GWP concrete in the structural slabs, and the closed-loop cooling design.

Why It Matters

The Lebanon campus is the clearest evidence that Meta’s “Meta Compute” strategy — the internal restructuring announced in early 2026 to organize the company’s AI infrastructure investments — has shifted from PowerPoint to ground-break. It joins Meta’s Louisiana “Hyperion” campus, the Northern Virginia and Iowa expansions, and a growing list of multi-gigawatt sites Meta has committed to over the past two years.

For Indiana, the project is the largest single private investment in state history. The LEAP District itself was created by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation in 2022 specifically to attract anchor tenants for advanced manufacturing and digital infrastructure. Meta’s commitment essentially validates the bet. Once operational, the campus will create roughly 300 permanent jobs, the kind of long-tail employment number that data centers always disappoint local governments with — but the construction phase will run hot through 2028 and represents the largest active construction labor draw in central Indiana.

The first buildings are scheduled to come online in late 2027, with the full 1 GW capacity targeted for early 2028. That puts Lebanon at the front of a wave of multi-gigawatt AI campuses targeting 2027 and 2028 first power, including Stargate Abilene (recently topped out per our coverage) and Meta’s own Hyperion site in Louisiana.

Project Team & Details