Scale Datacenter acquires facility from Expand Energy.
A data center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been sold and looks likely to serve chip firm Cerebras.
CoStar reports Scale Datacenter has acquired an 82,000 sq ft (7,618 sqm) data center from a natural gas producer, Expand Energy.
Images match a facility on the corner of NW 61st Street, NW 62nd Street, and N Lee Avenue.
The facility is likely set to serve chipmaker Cerebras. Earlier this year, the company, which develops wafer-scale chips placed inside its proprietary IT hardware systems, announced plans to launch six new AI inference data centers across North America and Europe.
As part of the announcement, Cerebras said it would deploy more than 300 CS-3 systems at a Scale Datacenter facility in Oklahoma City, due to come online in June 2025. Though details weren’t shared, the data center was described as a Tier III-quality computing facility that was tornado - and seismically -shielded, and connected with triple redundant power stations.
“We are excited to partner with Cerebras to bring world-class AI infrastructure to Oklahoma City,” Trevor Francis, CEO of Scale Datacenter, said at the time. “Our collaboration with Cerebras underscores our commitment to empowering innovation in AI, and we look forward to supporting the next generation of AI-driven applications.”
Few details about Scale are available. Francis is also CEO of 46 Labs, a communications company offering an orchestration platform. He declined to comment on the acquisition to DCD.
Cerebras founder and CEO Andrew Feldman recently posted images of a data center matching the former Expand Energy facility on LinkedIn. In the post, he said: “Our new data center in Oklahoma City will be ready soon.”
Expand Energy is a natural gas company headquartered in Oklahoma. It was created in the merger between what was previously known as Chesapeake Energy and Southwestern Energy in October last year.
The company put a large part of its office and data center campus in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, up for sale earlier this year. According to the sales brochures from Colliers, the data center facility spans 56,250 sq ft (5,200 sqm), with 2.9MW of IT capacity across 12,000 sq ft (1,100 sqm) of raised floor space. The facility was completed around 2013 for what was then Chesapeake Energy.
TierPoint, TulsaConnect, and Lumen all currently have a presence in Oklahoma City.
Cerebras has inference clusters live in Santa Clara and Stockton, California (the latter at Nautilus’ floating barge facility), and Dallas, Texas. The company is rolling out clusters in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Montreal, Canada (at a Bit Digital facility); and undisclosed locations in the US Midwest and Europe.
The company has deployed hardware to the University of Edinburgh, Sandia National Labs, Los Alamos Labs, G42/Core42, Mayo Clinic, and others.
