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Rockdale Data Center

Rockdale Data Center is a tracked AI data center campus in Rockdale, Texas, USA. Legacy hosting campus on the former Alcoa site alongside Riot Platforms and Bitdeer.

Energized · Applied Digital · Rockdale, Texas, USA

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Capacity: announced vs energized

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Contracted
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Rockdale Data Center capacity claims
Source

Key facts

energized

Lifecycle

0 GW

Energized

Applied Digital

Developer

Rockdale, Texas, USA

Location

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

IT capacity
180 MW (Company disclosure: ~180 MW at Rockdale hosting site)

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The deal

developer
Applied Digital

Power

Power source
grid
Interconnection

County water status: Severe drought (D2) in Milam County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Rockdale Data Center. It draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Sources

33bbee03-4ce6-46be-9dd2-698a516a56b2 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Rockdale Data Center?
Rockdale Data Center is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Rockdale, Texas, USA. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
Who is building Rockdale Data Center?
Applied Digital is recorded as a party to Rockdale Data Center on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Rockdale Data Center operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Rockdale Data Center is energized and operating. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Rockdale Data Center?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). Rockdale Data Center: AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/applied-digital-rockdale-data-center

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