SOAR AI said Tuesday that installation of low-voltage data-hall transformers and cooling-plant equipment is under way at its Chillicothe campus, as the company works toward putting its first 4,096 graphics processing units into service on December 31.
The October 20 company update, reported at 8:05 a.m. Eastern, said the Chillicothe installation was taking place this week. The first units are AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs, and the company maintained its December 31 target for them to enter service.
The Chillicothe campus is the physical build-out behind two long-term GPU orders with a stated value of $1.17 billion. Revenue under the first of the two four-year orders is expected in January 2027, subject to delivery and customer acceptance, the company said.
That sequence matters for Ross County: transformers and cooling are not cosmetic work. A data hall cannot run thousands of high-power accelerators until electrical distribution and heat removal are in place, tested and ready to carry the load the machines produce.
The update therefore reads as a construction milestone rather than a finished launch. The company still has to complete the facility work, deliver the GPUs and meet acceptance requirements before the January revenue expectation can be realized.
For Chillicothe, a campus of this scale represents a new kind of industrial footprint — a computing facility whose output is measured in GPU capacity rather than in products shipped from a loading dock, but whose local presence is built the same way, through electrical, mechanical and construction work on the ground.
SOAR AI said it remains on schedule for the December 31 service date. The next tests for the project will be whether installation finishes on that timeline and whether the first order moves through delivery and acceptance into revenue in January.
Locally, the project has been watched as part of a wider wave of computing investment across Ohio, where power availability and land have drawn data facilities to communities well beyond Columbus. Chillicothe’s campus puts Ross County in that conversation, with construction progress — rather than announcements — as the measure residents can see.
The company’s stated financing and delivery needs remain part of the picture. GPU orders of this size depend on completing the facility on time and on customers accepting the installed capacity, conditions the company itself attached to its January revenue expectation in Tuesday’s update.