North Dakota AI Campus Plans 1 GW of Gas-Fired Power

A proposed North Dakota AI data center campus plans to use Williston Basin natural gas to support up to 1 GW of behind-the-meter power under a new offtake agreement.

 

(P&GJ) — Tachyon9 Corp. and Nixxy Inc. announced an offtake agreement supporting development of the proposed Nakota AI Data Campus in western North Dakota, a project designed to use natural gas from the Williston Basin to generate up to 1 gigawatt of behind-the-meter power for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing operations.

The agreement was signed with Nidar Infrastructure Ltd., parent company of Yotta Data Services, and supports the first 100-megawatt phase of the project. According to the companies, the initial phase is expected to generate approximately $156 million in annual recurring revenue.

The planned campus would span roughly 620 acres in Williams County, North Dakota, and could eventually expand to 1 GW of capacity. The project is designed around on-site natural gas-fired power generation rather than relying on utility grid interconnections, a strategy developers say could accelerate deployment of large-scale AI infrastructure.

Tachyon9 Chairman and CEO Shahal Khan said the agreement provides a commercial framework for future development of the project and supports long-term infrastructure planning.

The companies said the facility is expected to include natural gas power generation, carbon capture and sequestration systems, liquid-cooled data centers and fiber infrastructure designed to support AI computing workloads. Additional development, financing and construction milestones have not yet been announced.