Data Center Registry
Los Alamos National Laboratory Strategic Computing Complex (Nicholas C. Metropolis Center)
Los Alamos, Los Alamos County, New Mexico
Los Alamos National Laboratory Strategic Computing Complex (Nicholas C. Metropolis Center) is an operating data center in Los Alamos, New Mexico (Los Alamos County), operated by Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy / NNSA).
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy / NNSA)
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use mixed
- Location
- Los Alamos, Los Alamos County, NM
- Coordinates
- 35.8755, -106.3190 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Evaporative
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of October 17, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Los Alamos National Laboratory Strategic Computing Complex (Nicholas C. Metropolis Center) in Los Alamos, Los Alamos County, New Mexico appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
The engineer of record lists 100% evaporative cooling and a shift to warm-water direct cooling. The cooling plant uses treated water from LANL's sanitary effluent reclamation facility as makeup water.
Notes on the record
A 307,749 sq ft secured supercomputing facility (Nicholas C. Metropolis Center) built around 1999-2001 for $131 million. Computer-floor power was expanded to 24 MW, with the ability to add 10 MW more, per the MEP engineer. It has housed Q, Roadrunner, Trinity, Crossroads and Venado. Venado (2,560 liquid-cooled Nvidia Grace Hopper superchips) was announced at 10 exaflops of peak AI performance, a figure LANL has not confirmed, which supports the mixed-use classification. Coordinates are an approximate point at LANL Technical Area 3, not a confirmed building pin.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Los Alamos National Laboratory Strategic Computing Complex (Nicholas C. Metropolis Center) data center in Los Alamos?
Nothing on record as of October 17, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Los Alamos National Laboratory Strategic Computing Complex (Nicholas C. Metropolis Center) in Los Alamos, Los Alamos County, New Mexico appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Los Alamos National Laboratory Strategic Computing Complex (Nicholas C. Metropolis Center) data center?
No lawsuit over Los Alamos National Laboratory Strategic Computing Complex (Nicholas C. Metropolis Center) appears in the record we track as of October 17, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Los Alamos National Laboratory Strategic Computing Complex (Nicholas C. Metropolis Center) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Los Alamos National Laboratory Strategic Computing Complex (Nicholas C. Metropolis Center) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as evaporative, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Los Alamos National Laboratory Strategic Computing Complex (Nicholas C. Metropolis Center), and how big is it?
Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy / NNSA) is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Los Alamos National Laboratory Strategic Computing Complex (Nicholas C. Metropolis Center)," updated October 17, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/lanl-strategic-computing-complex-los-alamos-nm.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/lanl-strategic-computing-complex-los-alamos-nm, retrieved October 29, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Los Alamos National Laboratory Strategic Computing Complex · Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers · retrieved October 17, 2026
- 2.Los Alamos National Laboratory unveils new Venado supercomputer reportedly capable of 10 exaflops of peak AI performance · SDxCentral · retrieved October 17, 2026
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