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Cleanview Research · October 2026

The Geography of Compute

Where hyperscalers, AI labs and other developers are building data centers in the US.

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PDF report and Excel data tables · 30 pages · 445 GW of data centers tracked

Cover of The Geography of Compute: a map of US data centers, each dot a campus sized by capacity

What's inside

The report and the data behind it

  • Operating, under construction and planned data center capacity for all 50 states
  • The same breakdown for 482 counties, including the 50 counties with the most capacity
  • The 50 largest data center campuses, with county, developer, tenant and end user
  • Data center capacity by utility, utility parent company and balancing authority
  • An Excel file with all of these tables
  • Profiles of Northern Virginia, Columbus and Texas
  • Where Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and neocloud developers are building
  • Data center capacity by grid operator, and its distance from high-voltage transmission lines and major gas pipelines
  • Data center capacity by 2024 presidential vote, House district, and the Senate and governor's races in November

Contents

  1. 01Established markets2
  2. 02New markets6
  3. 03Who is building9
  4. 04Trends12
  5. 05Power13
  6. 06Politics18
  7. 07The 2026 midterms20
  8. 08Appendix: data tables24

30-page PDF report

Excel file of every appendix table

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Questions

How is the report delivered?
After checkout you land on a download page with the PDF and the Excel data tables.
What is in the data file?
The report's appendix tables in full: capacity for all 50 states, 482 counties, the 50 largest campuses, 190 utilities, 48 utility parents and 45 balancing authorities, each split into operating, under construction and planned.
Where does the data come from?
Cleanview's data center tracker, built from building permits, air permits, utility and regulatory filings, county records and satellite imagery.
How current is it?
Capacity is as of October 4, 2026.

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