id: alaska-ak
name: Alaska data center exploration
status: announced
location:
  country: US
  state: AK
metrics:
  capacity_mw_basis: unspecified
first_seen: "2026-07-09"
last_updated: "2026-07-09"
confidence: medium
sources:
  - url: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/alaska-data-center-amazon-meta-microsoft-mike-dunleavy/
    title: "Alaska data center Amazon Meta Microsoft Mike Dunleavy"
    publisher: Data Center Dynamics
    date: "2026-07-06"
    note: "Early-stage state courtship; no hyperscaler or site committed."
signals:
  - sig-20260706-north-slope-exploration
notes: >
  Statewide exploration, not a single confirmed physical site. Governor
  Dunleavy is courting hyperscalers (Amazon, Meta, Microsoft) with none
  committed; toured Fairbanks and Anchorage sites, and the Air Force
  offered land at Clear Space Force Station and Eielson AFB. The site_hint
  additionally names the North Slope. Place resolved to the state (AK)
  because no single locality dominates across these candidates — per the
  id/location precedence, equally-valid localities fall through to state.
  status set to "announced" to reflect the public courtship; this is the
  earliest enum value and does not imply a committed project. operator
  omitted: the courted hyperscalers are uncommitted; the tour operator
  "Switch" (a colo/data-center operator) has no operators.yml entry and
  needs one if it recurs. developer omitted: none identified. Single
  reputable secondary source; confidence medium. If future signals pin a
  specific locality/campus, split into per-site records rather than
  extending this state-level record.