Airbus, October 2026Colossus 2
SpaceX. Shelby County, Tennessee.
Data centers in the United States
Cleanview tracks 4,601 data centers on 1,535 campuses in the US, many of them AI and hyperscale.
Campuses
- Planned704
- Under construction277
- Operating554
Under 200 MW200–999 MW1 GW and up
Updated daily. Last updated November 8, 2026.
The US has 1,420 data centers operating and 572 under construction
Operating1,420Under construction572Planned2,609
Buildings on 1,535 campuses, by status. Source: Cleanview.
The US went from 352 data centers online in 2016 to 1,263 in 2026, with 572 more under construction
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Operating buildings online at the end of each year, counting the 1,263 of 1,420 with a known year online. 2026 adds the buildings under construction. Source: Cleanview.
The 10 largest data centers in the US
Campuses ranked by the power capacity of the buildings operating today.
Airbus, October 2026
Airbus, July 2026AWS New Carlisle
Amazon. St. Joseph County, Indiana.
Airbus, August 2026QTS Richmond
QTS. Henrico County, Virginia.
| # | Campus | Operating capacity |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colossus 2 | 1,836 MW |
| 2 | AWS New Carlisle | 1,101 MW |
| 3 | QTS Richmond | 921 MW |
| 4 | QTS Excalibur / Fairwater | 859 MW |
| 5 | Riot Platforms Rockdale | 700 MW |
| 6 | Google Council Bluffs Southlands | 696 MW |
| 7 | AWS Boardman - Lewis & Clark (PDX-01) | 690 MW |
| 8 | Meta New Albany | 637 MW |
| 9 | Google Berkeley County (Moncks Corner) | 559 MW |
| 10 | CloudHQ LC Campus | 558 MW |
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See plansData centers under construction in the US
Cleanview tracks 572 data center buildings under construction on 277 campuses in the US. These are the largest, by power capacity at full build-out.
Airbus, April 2026Stargate Frontier
Vantage Data Centers. Shackelford County, Texas.
Airbus, July 2026Stargate Jupiter
Stack Infrastructure. Dona Ana County, New Mexico.
Airbus, August 2026QTS Eagle Mountain
QTS. Utah County, Utah.
| # | Campus | Full build-out |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meta Hyperion | 6,500 MW |
| 2 | Nexus Hubbard | 6,400 MW |
| 3 | Colossus 2 | 2,844 MW |
| 4 | Stargate Jupiter | 2,450 MW |
| 5 | Microsoft Fairwater (Mount Pleasant) | 2,401 MW |
| 6 | AWS New Carlisle | 2,202 MW |
| 7 | QTS Richmond | 2,054 MW |
| 8 | Stargate Frontier | 1,820 MW |
| 9 | AWS Jeffersonville | 1,739 MW |
| 10 | Digital Dulles | 1,723 MW |
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See plansData centers in each state
Buildings operating, under construction and planned
How Cleanview tracks data centers
There's no government database of data centers. We build ours from public records, one campus at a time, and track every kind: AI and hyperscale campuses, colocation sites, enterprise data centers and crypto mines. We only count individual buildings as data centers, and group them into campuses: one site, usually built in phases.
Built from primary sources
Each campus starts with a public document: an air permit, a building permit, a rezoning or a utility filing. We record each building's power and IT capacity from them and save every source.
From first permit to operation
We follow each campus from its first filing through construction, and update it as buildings come online. Most campuses are built in phases, so we track every building.
Checked from above
Satellite images show when crews start grading and when buildings go up. Under construction means work has started on site, not just an announcement.
Questions about US data centers
- How many data centers are in the US?
- Cleanview tracks 4,601 data centers in the US, on 1,535 campuses, as of November 8, 2026. 1,420 are operating, 572 under construction and 2,609 planned.
- Why do other sites count more data centers?
- Cleanview only counts individual buildings as data centers. Some directories count facilities instead, and a facility can occupy an entire building or one or more rooms within a building. That means "10 data centers" on one of those lists could mean 10 rooms within a single building operated by a colocation company. Cleanview counts that as one data center, since counting each room would count the same building 10 times. Those directories also count many small colocation, edge and enterprise data centers. Cleanview has more of a focus on hyperscale and AI data centers. Of the 4,601 data centers Cleanview tracks in the US, 1,420 are operating, and the rest are under construction or planned.
- Which state has the most data centers?
- Virginia has the most data centers, 852 operating, under construction or planned, followed by Texas with 815 and Pennsylvania with 300.
- Where are data centers being built in the US?
- Construction is underway on 572 data centers on 277 campuses in the US. The largest are Meta Hyperion in Richland Parish, Louisiana, Nexus Hubbard in Hill County, Texas and Colossus 2 in Shelby County, Tennessee.
- What is the largest data center in the US?
- Colossus 2 in Shelby County, Tennessee is the largest operating data center campus in the US, with 1,836 MW of power capacity online.
- How many AI data centers are in the US?
- Cleanview doesn't label campuses as AI or not, since most new campuses can serve both AI and cloud computing. It tracks every kind of data center in the US, from AI and hyperscale campuses to colocation sites, enterprise data centers and crypto mines.
- What is a hyperscale data center?
- A hyperscale data center is a campus built for one of the largest cloud and AI companies, like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft or OpenAI. They usually draw hundreds of megawatts. Cleanview tracks 129 campuses in the US planned at 1 GW or more.
- What's the difference between power capacity and IT capacity?
- Power capacity is the electricity a campus is built to draw from the grid. IT capacity is the part that reaches its servers and chips; the rest runs cooling and other equipment. Cleanview tracks both for every building.
- What kinds of data centers does Cleanview track?
- Every kind, with more of a focus on hyperscale and AI: campuses built for companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI, colocation sites leased to many tenants, enterprise data centers a company runs for itself, and crypto mines.
