Data Center Registry
University of Florida Data Center (East Campus, HiPerGator)
Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida
University of Florida Data Center (East Campus, HiPerGator) is an operating data center in Gainesville, Florida (Alachua County), operated by University of Florida.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- University of Florida
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use mixed
- Location
- Gainesville, Alachua County, FL
- Coordinates
- 29.6723, -82.3014 (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
- Not established from a public source
- 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
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
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.
- 2025OperatingHiPerGator 4 (NVIDIA DGX B200 SuperPOD, 63 DGX B200 nodes) entered early access in June 2025, with full production planned for fall 2025. Source: University of Florida News
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of October 2, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over University of Florida Data Center (East Campus, HiPerGator) in Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida 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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Notes on the record
The Alligator reports that HiPerGator is housed in the UF Data Center on East Campus. Whiting-Turner describes 10,000 sq ft of computing space, split between a Tier 3 data center and 5,000 sq ft of data center research space, plus 4,400 sq ft of standby administrative space. The building has 2.5 MW of generator capacity and an on-site central utility plant. UF's Board of Trustees approved a $24M HiPerGator upgrade in December 2024; the system costs about $6M a year to operate. That $24M is a hardware upgrade, not facility investment. Classed as mixed_use because the building also hosts general enterprise and research computing alongside the NVIDIA AI supercomputer. The building's exact street address is not confirmed, so coordinates are the East Campus centroid and approximate.
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
- Cooling method and water use
- 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.
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- 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 University of Florida Data Center (East Campus, HiPerGator) in Gainesville?
Nothing on record as of October 2, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over University of Florida Data Center (East Campus, HiPerGator) in Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida 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 University of Florida Data Center (East Campus, HiPerGator)?
No lawsuit over University of Florida Data Center (East Campus, HiPerGator) appears in the record we track as of October 2, 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 University of Florida Data Center (East Campus, HiPerGator) use?
No water withdrawal figure for University of Florida Data Center (East Campus, HiPerGator) is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates University of Florida Data Center (East Campus, HiPerGator), and how big is it?
University of Florida is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "University of Florida Data Center (East Campus, HiPerGator)," updated October 2, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/university-of-florida-data-center-gainesville-fl.
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/university-of-florida-data-center-gainesville-fl, retrieved October 11, 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.Fourth generation of UF supercomputer, HiPerGator, approved with sustainability in mind · The Independent Florida Alligator · retrieved October 2, 2026
- 2.The fourth-gen model of UF's HiPerGator, available to users in June, is built to reshape AI education and research · University of Florida News · retrieved October 2, 2026
- 3.University of Florida East Campus Data Center · Whiting-Turner · retrieved October 2, 2026
- 4.University of Florida East Campus (OSM relation) · OpenStreetMap · retrieved October 2, 2026
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