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US Data-Center Build-Out Tracker facility counts · power capacity · operators · grid strain · tax incentives · community pushback

What you're looking at: A national snapshot of the U.S. data-center build-out — facility counts and power capacity by state, the companies building them, grid-operator strain, state tax incentives, and the community controversies and lawsuits the build-out has triggered. Figures are transcribed verbatim from a research compilation; where sources disagree, ranges and source-by-source estimates are preserved as written and are not independently verified.
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States
Facilities & Local Impact
Map
Indiana
Companies
Key Metrics
Cooling & Water
Grid Operators
Tax Incentives
Correlations
Controversies
Litigation & Cancellations
News
Outlook to 2030
Sources
About

Facilities by State

Per-state totals (DataCenterMap + Aterio compilation): operating, under-construction, and planned facility counts, plus reported planned/operating power capacity and disclosed floor space. % of national is each state's share of all tracked facilities (est., from total counts). Click a column header to sort.

Click any state row to open its detail view (curated + community-mapped facilities, metrics, share of national, projections, tax incentives).

State Total % of National Operating Under Constr. Planned Power Capacity Total Space (sq ft) Notes

U.S. Data Centers — Full Universe & Local Impact

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This view spans every tracked U.S. data center — the detailed curated compilation and the full community-mapped (OpenStreetMap) set — not just the curated handful.

Detailed sites carry each project's power, investment, footprint and jobs, plus estimated local impact on water, electricity and household/ratepayer cost (water & homes-equivalent figures are estimates from the compilation's own size-class benchmarks, not facility-measured; investment & jobs are as stated). Mapped sites are crowd-sourced from OpenStreetMap (name/operator/town/state/power/coords) — coverage and quality vary.

Showing the full combined U.S. set. Type to search across both datasets (community-mapped pages auto-load on search); use the state dropdown to narrow, or switch to Detailed only for the rich curated cards.

SetName / CityOperatorStatePowerStatus / MethodDetail

Interactive U.S. Data-Center Map

Every community-mapped (OpenStreetMap) data-center site with usable coordinates, plotted on a simple equirectangular projection of the contiguous U.S. (CONUS). Hover a point for details; click it to pin its info on the right. Use the state filter to isolate one state. Points are coloured by reported power class where a power figure is tagged. The curated “Detailed” compilation carries no coordinates, so it is not plotted here — see the Facilities tab for those rich cards.

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Power class

Large ≥ 500 MW
Medium 100–499 MW
Small < 100 MW
Power not tagged

Selected site

Hover or click a point to see its details here.

Indiana Data-Center Scorecard

A standalone, Indiana-only deep view of the state's data-center build-out — the detailed curated sites (New Carlisle/AWS, Fort Wayne/Google, Lebanon/Meta and others), the full community-mapped (OpenStreetMap) Indiana set, per-site local impact estimates, and any Indiana-specific 2030 outlook rows. Curated impact figures labeled (est.) are derived from size-class benchmarks, not facility-measured.

State-specific 2030 projections mentioning Indiana
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Controversies, litigation & cancellations mentioning Indiana
Tax incentives
Detailed curated facilities in Indiana
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Community-mapped (OSM) sites in Indiana
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Cooling & Water

How data centers reject heat — and how much water that costs. Methods range from open-loop evaporative towers (millions of gallons/day) to sealed closed-loop and immersion systems (near-zero ongoing draw). Every figure links its source. Where a widely-circulated claim could not be verified, it is not stated as fact.

Water use by cooling method
Facility examples — the contrast cases
FacilityCooling typeWater useLocationSource
Adoption & market
US legislation — cooling & water

Correlations

Relationships computed from the data already on this page — nothing here is invented. Each chart pairs two real variables and adds a plain-language takeaway. Pairings without sufficient data are omitted.

Companies & Operators

Hyperscalers, colocation providers, bitcoin miners, energy-campus developers, and private-credit investors named in the compilation.

Company Type Commitment States Notes

Key National Metrics

CapEx, power, water, cost-to-ratepayer, funding, jobs, and public-opinion figures from the compilation.

Grid Operators

Regional transmission operators most affected by data-center load growth.

Operator States Served Impact

State Tax Incentives

Sales/use-tax abatements, exemptions, and credits states offer to attract data centers — plus reported revenue impact where known.

State Break Type Amount / Duration Requirements Impact

Controversies & Pushback

Cost, environmental, government-policy, public-opinion, and community-opposition issues surrounding the build-out.

Active Litigation

Case Location Parties Status Detail

Cancelled / Contested / Moratorium Projects

Location Project Status Detail

Data-Center News Feed

Live headlines on the U.S. data-center build-out — power, grid, water, tax fights, lawsuits and new projects — aggregated from public news feeds and refreshed server-side daily. Click any headline to read the original source.

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Outlook to 2030

Documented, sourced forecasts for U.S. data-center electricity demand, grid strain, investment, water use and jobs through 2030. Every figure is attributed to a named forecaster (DOE, EPRI, IEA, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Deloitte and others); nothing here is our own projection. Multi-year series are drawn as inline trajectories.

Data Provenance & Sources

The full directory of the upstream sources the data on this page comes from — not the API endpoints, the actual trackers, datasets, government reports, forecasters, peer-reviewed and industry publications, news publishers and community maps behind every figure. Grouped by what they feed, with the full clickable URL for each.

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Per-figure citation links

The distinct source URLs cited against specific figures across the dataset (count = number of figures each backs).

About this page

What this is: a read-only dashboard over a research compilation of the U.S. data-center build-out, served live from the TCG data service. Where multiple sources disagree (e.g. total facility counts range 3,000–4,500+), the per-source figures are preserved rather than reconciled.

What's included: per-state facility counts & power capacity, individual facilities with local-impact estimates, companies & commitments, grid-operator strain, state tax incentives, controversies & litigation, a live daily news feed, and a sourced 2030 outlook of documented third-party forecasts.

The full upstream-source directory is on the Sources tab.

Data sources
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Not independently verified. This is an informational aggregation, not investment, legal, or policy advice. Counts and dollar figures should be checked against primary sources before reliance.

Figures are transcribed verbatim from a research compilation and are not independently verified. Ranges and source-by-source estimates are preserved as written. Provided for informational purposes only.