Proposed-site record
High-priority Festus proposal from CRG / Clayco. The revised concept is approximately 600 MW across four single-story buildings with closed-loop cooling; construction has not begun and the tenant remains undisclosed. City-published records and developer materials improve water, power, and public-money provenance without converting project scale into facility IT load or spending.
This panel tracks what the facility is for without assuming that every project is AI training, inference, or cloud capacity.
No source-backed workload, customer, hardware, or training/inference allocation is attached to this record yet.
Workload classification remains unknown in the reviewed record.Source leads point to attached records or reporting. They still need field-level review before being treated as verified evidence.
Source reviewed September 9, 2026: FestusForward attributes the more-than-$6 billion figure to minimum initial construction and equipment investment, says there is no real-property tax abatement, and describes more than $40 million in community-benefit payments over 10 years. The City of Festus separately publishes Ordinance 4876 and a fully executed preliminary funding agreement, but the reviewed landing page does not establish the agreement's final public-money accounting or spending.
Source reviewed September 9, 2026: FestusForward says the revised approximately 600 MW, four-building concept uses closed-loop cooling, will not use private wells, and expects water oversight by the City of Festus, Jefferson County Water Authority, and Missouri DNR. The public materials do not disclose a final withdrawal, consumption, cooling, or wastewater quantity; no groundbreaking or opening date has been set.
Source reviewed September 9, 2026: FestusForward distinguishes the revised approximately 600 MW concept from the earlier 1 GW plan and says all power will be supplied through Ameren Missouri, with no onsite power plant beyond backup generators. This remains planned project/utility context, not confirmed requested, approved, energized, generation, or data-center IT-load capacity.
No fuel-cell or Bloom Energy source is attached to this project yet.
No NDA reported
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