How the atlas is made.

Data Centers Atlas maps documented data center projects and operating sites, the power they ask for and the local rules that shape where they can go. It is a reporting tool, not a census: a state goes live only after its records are checked against public sources, and every record shows the date it was last checked.

Sources

County and city meeting records, state utility commission filings, state law, company announcements and local news. Each record links to the sources it relies on. Where sources disagree, the record says so instead of picking a side.

What each status means

Operating

A current public source shows the site in service. Older contracts or directory listings alone are not enough; those records are marked as unconfirmed leads and hidden until switched on.

Under construction

Public reporting of construction or of approved, energized service.

Approved

A public body approved something specific, such as a rezoning, a development agreement or a power contract. It is not a promise that anything will be built.

Proposed

Announced or filed, with no approval yet.

Paused

The developer or a public body has put the project on hold.

Denied, withdrawn or closed

Turned down, pulled by the developer, or shut after operating.

Where the pins go

Published site

The location matches a published site, building or parcel.

Street address

Matched to a published street address with the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder.

Approximate area

Only a city, road or general area is public. The map draws a circle around it instead of pinning a building.

County level

No location below the county is public. These records appear in the list and highlight their county, but never get a pin.

National research editions.

The national map combines the published records from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Kentucky retains its standalone state research packet. Other state pages expose field-specific source reviews from the October 15, 2026 round 92 checkpoint. These pages are research collections, not a census of separate operating facilities.

A manually read source can establish a street address, historical acquisition or shared-campus context while leaving present operation unresolved. The national adapter withholds upstream capacity, investment, incentives and operating claims unless separately supported. The original 323 inherited records without manual review remain excluded.

The gold state-map lines are an opening illustration. They do not identify documented power or fiber connections. Their hub is an illustrative center or named reference point, not an asserted utility facility. Motion stops after a brief introduction and respects reduced-motion settings.

Location evidence and imagery.

The Hawesville TeraWulf and Louisville Camp Ground Road inventory points failed aerial review. Their inherited points are suppressed; the records remain readable at county level until published parcel evidence supports an upgrade. Other projects remain approximate unless sourced otherwise. County-only records receive no site pin.

Four Kentucky operating-site building centers are matched separately to OpenStreetMap geometry using operator and published-address evidence. The matched geometry download is credited to OpenStreetMap contributors under the Open Database License. Building centers are not surveyed parcels. Aerial imagery is dated photography and does not certify current activity.

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Numbers

Megawatts can mean electrical service, leased computing load or on-site generation, and each record says which. Investment figures are what developers or officials announced, not audited spending. The atlas does not add megawatts or dollars across records, because they measure different things.

Maps and imagery

Street maps from OpenFreeMap and OpenStreetMap contributors. Kentucky aerial imagery from KyFromAbove, the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s statewide aerial program, with U.S. Geological Survey imagery beyond the state line. County boundaries and address matching from the U.S. Census Bureau. Part of the facility inventory is adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0, then reviewed record by record.

Use the data

Each state’s records are free to download as JSON, for example Kentucky. Please link back to the atlas when you use them.

Corrections

Spot something wrong, out of date or missing? Send the source and the record will be checked and updated.