Datacenter Builder — build the grid, cool the racks, serve the tokens

Your job: keep the tokens flowing

You run DCB Cloud. A datacenter is useless on its own: it needs power, water for its cooling towers, fiber to the internet exchange, and a road so the staff can get to work. Get all four connected and it starts serving tokens for whichever AI models you've licensed, from open-weights Llama and Qwen to Claude, GPT and Gemini.

Then the world pushes back. Gas plants choke the nearest village in smog until residents blockade your gates. Heat waves cripple your chillers, storms knock out the regional grid, and new GPU generations make your racks obsolete. In vs Hyperscalers mode, rival campuses open across the valley, poach customers every time you go dark, and start price wars. Every headline on the ticker opens a front page of The Datacenter Daily, written from your own game's numbers, with a newsprint photo of the scene.

Pick how you play

Open World

The sandbox. Generate a valley, start with $60M and build as big as you like, solo or against AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle. No win, no lose: outages, smog and the market keep it interesting.

Goals & Milestones

A career in five tiers: Garage Lab, Regional Provider, Cloud Contender, National Cloud, Hyperscaler. Each has four targets, from tokens served and revenue to riding out a grid outage and training your own model. Every tier pays a grant and unlocks bigger datacenters, new power and licensed models. You start with $45M, and a week in the red is bankruptcy.

Scenarios

Take over a broken campus and fix it before the deadline. Eight to fix: nobody can get to work; the power dies every night; a heat wave and one cooling tower; a village in revolt at your gates; a campus losing half a million a day; a winter of storms with no backup; a price war against four rivals; and a fleet of five-year-old GPUs. Each opens with a briefing and ends with up to three stars for doing it fast, and your best stars are kept.

Saved games

Every game is its own save, kept each game day and whenever you leave. Continue lists them all with a picture of your campus, its mode, day, money and tier, in tabs per mode: load, rename or delete any of them, or save a copy before a big bet.

Tutorial

New here? The blue button walks you through your first working datacenter in 15 steps, pointing at every button and every spot on the map.

Gallery

A powered, cooled and connected datacenter with the token market chart and building panel open — **A working campus**: the token market on the left, the datacenter's power, cooling, network and deployed models on the right

A Goals and Milestones campus at National Cloud, with the goals panel showing three of four targets met — **Goals & Milestones**: four targets per tier, with progress bars, on the way from Garage Lab to Hyperscaler

The scenario picker: eight broken campuses, each with its best stars — **Scenarios**: eight broken campuses to fix, each scored with up to three stars

The Angry Neighbours briefing: the story, the goal and the star rules — **The briefing**: what went wrong, your goal and where to start

Hot Summer: two hyperscale datacenters overheating in a heat wave, with the scenario panel — **Hot Summer**: a heat wave, one cooling tower, and the clock running

The Regional Provider milestone: a grant and what it unlocks — **A new tier**: the board sends a grant and the next buildings and models unlock

Datacenter build cards with the hyperscale datacenter, training cluster and headquarters locked — **Locked until you earn it**: every card says which tier opens it

The Hyperscaler end screen with confetti — **Hyperscaler**: win the career, then keep playing

The saved games browser with tabs per mode, pictures, days, money and tiers — **Saved games**: every game, every mode, with a picture of the campus

The tutorial pointing at the grid tie and the new datacenter, with its step-by-step panel — **Tutorial**: every step says what to click next, pulses the button and marks the spot on the map

The Land view: plots for sale with prices, a locked plot, and a plot card with its price breakdown — **Buy land**: 36 plots on the vs-rivals map, each priced by its river, rock, wind and villages

Construction crews upgrading a datacenter campus — **Upgrades**: crews, cranes and beacons while your campus gets liquid cooling, a wing and more

A hydro dam, training cluster, headquarters and geothermal plant in the valley — **Dam, cluster and HQ**: hydro power on the river, a training cluster and research at headquarters

The map picker with terrain toggles — **Pick your map**: reroll the valley and set mountains, forests and water while the splines reticulate

The power view showing each power network's supply and demand — **The power view**: every network's generation, load and battery reserve

The Datacenter Daily newspaper front page — **The Datacenter Daily**: click any headline for the full story

Villagers picketing a polluting gas plant — **Protest!** Smog and noise push a village to blockade your plants

The train-a-new-model dialog — **Train your own model**: tie up GPUs for days and get a model nobody else can sell

The training complete celebration — **Training complete**: license-free, ready to deploy

The reputation and community window with charts — **Reputation & Community**: uptime per datacenter, recent outages and each town's mood

Leveling a hill with the Level Ground tool — **Level Ground**: drag a box to flatten a hill for your next build

What's in it

Utility networks

Power lines, water pipes, fiber and roads, solved as connected networks. Buildings that touch share everything; a network that can't carry the load browns out.

Real power dispatch

Solar, wind, nuclear, gas, the regional grid, batteries and diesel, dispatched cleanest first. Sell your surplus back to the grid at the evening peak.

Real AI models

License and deploy real models with their parameter counts, GPU needs, prices and market share. New releases are rumoured, then launch, and older models fade.

Neighbours with opinions

Smog and noise drift into the villages. Fines come first, then anger, then picket lines that turn your workers away. Trees, scrubbers and sound walls help.

Weather and seasons

Heat waves sap your chillers, droughts halve your pumps, winter storms take down the grid, and cold snaps make heat reuse pay.

Rival hyperscalers

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle each play differently: the fast builder, the price fighter, the model house and the late heavyweight.

Train your own model

Commit thousands of GPUs for days, name the result, and deploy a model that costs you nothing to license.

Growing towns

Villages add homes and streets when they're happy and there are jobs nearby. Hit population goals for town grants.

Building upgrades

Liquid cooling, expansion wings, UPS rooms, combined-cycle gas, carbon capture, sun trackers, taller wind towers and more. Crews arrive with scaffolding, a crane and flashing beacons, and every upgrade shows on the building.

Clean power from the land

Dam the river for a steady 150 MW (half in a drought), or tap rocky high ground with a geothermal plant for 60 MW that never stops.

Training Cluster

16,384 GPUs that do nothing but train your own models, twice as fast as a datacenter. No fiber needed, but it can't serve customers.

Headquarters and research

Build one HQ and research your edge: cheaper licences, faster inference, cooler chillers, better grid prices, friendlier towns and early access to new GPUs.

Fiber cuts and backup water

Storms and backhoes sever fiber unless you paid for a second path. A water reservoir banks spare water for the next drought.

A tutorial that holds your hand

New here? The blue button on the main menu walks you through your first working datacenter in 15 steps: the button to press pulses, the spot on the map glows, and the camera takes you there.

Buy the valley

The valley comes in up to 36 plots (25 on your own). Start with two and build only on land you own. Each plot for sale shows its river frontage, rock, wind and villages and is priced on them. Population goals and token milestones unlock more.

Living towns

Traffic on the roads, streetlights at night, police at protests and a fire engine at an overheating datacenter. Hit population goals and a downtown of shops, offices and skyscrapers grows.

Terrain that matters

Rivers, mountains and forests on every generated map. Roads grade the ground, bridges span the river, and Level Ground flattens a site.

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