Data Center Registry
Stak Energy North Slope Data Center
North Slope County, Alaska
Stak Energy North Slope Data Center is a proposed data center in Alaska (North Slope County), operated by Stak Energy. The public record puts it at announced May 2026, 3 GW planned, 715 acres, a reported $500 million investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Stak Energy
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- North Slope County, AK
- Coordinates
- 69.8400, -148.5000
- Power capacity
- 3 GW planned
- Land
- 715 acres
- Investment
- $500 million
- Announced
- May 2026
- Utility
- Tdx North Slope Generating Co
- Power source
- On site gas
- On site generation
- 3 GW
- Cooling
- air
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 60 permanent; 1,500 construction
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Mixed reception
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- May 2026ProposedAlaska DNR issued preliminary best-interest finding supporting long-term state land lease for 715.4 acres; public review process initiated Source: Alaska Public Media
Opposition and litigation at this site
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Stak Energy North Slope Data Center in North Slope County, Alaska appear in the record, with no clear majority position. No confirmed customers or investors as of May 2026.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.
No confirmed customers or investors as of May 2026. Turbine sourcing delays (industry backlog up to 7 years) cited as major risk. Alaska-native leadership including former state DNR commissioner John Boyle. Indigenous opposition reported.
Power and water
New pipeline to carry North Slope natural gas to on-site power plant. Self-contained, not connected to Alaska's statewide electrical grid.
Arctic air cooling reduces water consumption by 90%+ compared to industry norms per company. Sub-freezing average temperatures enable free air cooling.
Notes on the record
Preliminary state land lease approval covers 715.4 acres (corrected from 640; one square mile = 640 acres exactly but the approved lease footprint is 715.4 acres per Alaska Beacon). Campus is approximately 26 miles south of Deadhorse/Prudhoe Bay off the Dalton Highway (corrected from 25 miles). Supports AI training, cloud computing, and HPC. 3 GW is the project's claimed ultimate potential; $500M is Phase 1 capital. Coordinates estimated (~26 miles south of Prudhoe Bay 70.2N/148.5W); exact site not publicly disclosed.
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.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Which document closes each gap
- 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.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Stak Energy North Slope Data Center in North Slope County, Alaska?
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Stak Energy North Slope Data Center in North Slope County, Alaska appear in the record, with no clear majority position. No confirmed customers or investors as of May 2026.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Stak Energy North Slope Data Center?
No lawsuit over Stak Energy North Slope Data Center appears in the record we track as of October 18, 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 Stak Energy North Slope Data Center use?
No water withdrawal figure for Stak Energy North Slope Data Center is on record here. Cooling is recorded as air, 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 Stak Energy North Slope Data Center, and how big is it?
Stak Energy is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 3 GW. The site is recorded at 715 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Stak Energy North Slope Data Center," updated October 18, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/stak-energy-north-slope-ak.
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/stak-energy-north-slope-ak, 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.Alaska's North Slope Proposed as Home for Massive AI Data Center · Alaska Public Media · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 2.A Huge Data Center Could Rise on Alaska's North Slope · Anchorage Daily News · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 3.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
- 4.STAK Energy Corporation ADL 422741 Preliminary Decision (Director's Decision, May 12, 2026) · Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas · retrieved September 28, 2026
- 5.Data center in play · Petroleum News · retrieved October 18, 2026
- 6.STAK Energy Campus: What the State's Lease Documents Reveal About Scale, Risk, and Unanswered Questions · Northern Alaska Environmental Center · retrieved October 18, 2026
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