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America’s data center boom, on one map.
The Data Center Tracker puts well over 2,000 large-scale data centers on one map: what’s running, what’s going up, what’s proposed and what was stopped.
What this map does
- It’s the most comprehensive data center tracker in the country
- Every large-scale data center we can tie to a public record is here, from the hyperscale and AI campuses already running to the proposals still waiting on a vote, in every state where they’re landing. One map, easy to read at a glance, with a page for every facility. It shows the full scale of the industrial buildout big tech is pushing into American communities.
- It leads with what hasn’t been built
- The red lights are the hundreds of proposals that haven’t broken ground. Those are the decisions still open to a county board, a utility commission, a land agency or a neighbor with a comment. The industry trackers are built to sell colocation space, so they lead with what’s operating. We lead with what’s coming.
- It keeps the ones that were stopped
- Hundreds of canceled, withdrawn, defeated or moratorium-blocked projects stay on the map, gray, with their pages and the source for how each one ended.
- Every facility, cited to the source
- A company announcement, a planning or utility filing, industry reporting, a facility tracker. The source sits on the facility page. If we can’t source a facility, it isn’t shown.
- It watches a place for you
- Anyone can enter a ZIP code and get an email when a data center lands in the record nearby: proposed, breaking ground or stopped. We check every day.
- It’s free and it’s open
- No required login, no paywall, a page for every facility and every state, a share card drawn from the data on every link, and a public record that anyone can correct by writing to us.
- It shows what each one sits next to
- Every facility is measured to the edge of the nearest national park, wilderness area, wildlife refuge or conservation area, so you can see which projects sit right beside land that belongs to everyone.
The story in one paragraph
America is in the middle of an unprecedented data center buildout, and most people have no clear way to see where it is happening, what is being proposed, or who is behind it. More Than Just Parks built the Data Center Tracker to change that. We’ve traced thousands of large-scale data centers across the country to public records, including hundreds of projects still being proposed and hundreds more that communities have already stopped. Every facility has its own page showing what we know, where the information came from, and its current status. Every state has its own page, and anyone can sign up for alerts for their ZIP code. The Data Center Tracker is free and built to give Americans a clear view of an industry transforming communities across the country.
Why we built it
The data center boom is happening faster than the public can keep track of it. Projects are announced under different names, buried in local filings, described vaguely by developers, or moving through the approval process before many of the people who will live beside them know what is coming. The companies building these facilities know where they are. Utilities know. Developers and investors know. The public should know too.
So we built one place where anyone can see what is happening across the country. What’s been built. What’s under construction. What’s being proposed. Who’s behind it. And where the information comes from.
The goal is simple: make an industry reshaping American communities visible to the people who live in them.
Our position, if you’re quoting one
More Than Just Parks opposes the unchecked expansion of large-scale data centers that threaten American communities and natural resources.
Too often, these projects consume enormous amounts of water and energy while shifting their costs onto the public. Communities are left with strained water supplies, higher utility bills, environmental damage, and diminished quality of life, while data center operators receive tax breaks and keep the profits.
We believe communities and their resources should come before corporate profits.
Attribute to More Than Just Parks.
While we oppose the data center buildout in its current form, this project is about visibility. Too many of these projects move forward with little to no transparency and little meaningful public involvement. Communities deserve to know what is being built around them, who is behind it, and what it will demand from the resources they depend on. Government has largely failed to provide that transparency. We built the Data Center Tracker to fill the gap.
You can read our reporting on a Georgia data center here.
Numbers you can cite
These come straight from the map and update on their own whenever it does. Last updated October 12, 2026.
- 2,176data centers on the map
operating, under construction and proposed
- 843proposed
announced or filed, not yet building
- 431under construction
- 902operating
- 585stopped or paused
canceled, withdrawn, voted down or blocked by a moratorium
- 576within 10 miles of protected public land
measured to the edge of the nearest national park, wilderness area, wildlife refuge or conservation area
- 23within a mile of protected public land
We don’t publish a megawatt total, for a state or for the country. Most data centers never say how big they are, so any total we put out would likely be a massive undercount. Each facility page shows the figure its own source states.
How the record is built
Every facility is tied to a public record we can link to: industry reporting, company announcements, planning and utility filings, facility trackers, and tips from people on the ground that we check before anything changes. Where a source states a size, the facility page shows it and says whether that’s running today or planned. Where it doesn’t, we estimate a rough size from the operator’s other sites and label it as an estimate.
If a listing is wrong, tell us and we’ll fix it. The full methodology
Who we are
More Than Just Parks is a public lands advocacy organization founded by brothers Will and Jim Pattiz. We investigate threats to America’s public lands, figure out who’s behind them, and give people the information they need to do something about it.
We’ve built public tools tracking threatened public lands, wildfire, dark skies, the Roadless Rule, and how every member of Congress votes on public lands. The Data Center Tracker grew out of the same work, but the issue is much bigger than public lands. We built it because Americans deserve to know where these facilities are going, who is building them, and what they could mean for the communities around them.
Share cards and images
Every page on the tracker carries its own share card, drawn from the data: the country at night with every light, or a state’s lights. Paste any tracker link into a text, a post or a story and the card comes with it. The cards below are free to use with credit to More Than Just Parks.
Any state’s card is its state page address with /opengraph-image on the end. Need a map at print resolution, a crop of your coverage area, or an embed? Write to us and say the outlet and the deadline.
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How to cite
More Than Just Parks. “Data Center Tracker.” morethanjustparks.com/data-center-tracker.
Corrections
If a facility page is wrong, we want to know so we can promptly correct it. Email ask@morethanjustparks.com with the facility page and what you know.
Contact
ask@morethanjustparks.com. Interviews, background on a project or a region, and data for a coverage area are all on the table.