{ "schema_version": "0.4", "scope_note": "Fixed state identity roster. Research status and published-record counts are derived from draft audits and canonical collections; draft author labels are not independent coverage approval.", "coverage_note": "Coverage level, review dates and evidence breadth are derived from the published records on every build. They are never stored, so no number here can drift away from the records it describes. A coverage level never changes a page address.", "coverage_basis": { "basis": "approved", "approved": true, "receipt_id": "rcpt-codex-astra-updates-1cc62248-20260921", "expires_at": "2026-09-23T01:10:40.238Z" }, "coverage_levels": [ "complete-census", "strong", "useful", "anchor", "hold", "national-structure" ], "coverage_thresholds": { "strong": { "records": 20, "sources": 40, "counties": 6, "multi_source_share": 0.5, "audited_families": 7 }, "useful": { "records": 5, "sources": 10, "counties": 3, "multi_source_share": 0.5 } }, "review_cadence_days": { "changed-source": 7, "high-risk-claim": 30, "moving-projects": 60, "complete-census": 90, "strong": 90, "useful": 90, "anchor": 180, "national-structure": 180, "hold": 90 }, "review_note": "next_review is the scheduled date of the next review. review_overdue is a separate derived flag: it raises review priority and never blocks publication.", "coverage_level_counts": { "complete-census": 0, "strong": 0, "useful": 4, "anchor": 44, "hold": 2, "national-structure": 0 }, "as_of": "2026-09-19", "statuses": { "research-pending": "Statewide audit pending" }, "states": [ { "name": "Alabama", "abbr": "AL", "region": "South", "slug": "alabama", "url": "/alabama/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-11" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No statewide register of Chapter 9B data processing center abatements or Alabama Jobs Act awards was found; local grants by county and city boards were not systematically searched.", "The Department of Commerce news archive was not paged for every data center announcement; no government announcement of Google's 2026 expansion was located." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Chapter 9B Abatements (data processing center abatement provisions)", "publisher": "Alabama Department of Revenue", "url": "https://www.revenue.alabama.gov/tax-incentives/chapter-9b-abatements/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Google kicks off construction on $600M Alabama data center", "publisher": "Alabama Department of Commerce (Made in Alabama)", "url": "https://www.madeinalabama.com/2018/04/google-kicks-off-construction-on-alabama-data-center/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Governor Ivey Announces Meta Plans to Build $800 Million, Next-Generation Data Center in Montgomery", "publisher": "Office of the Governor of Alabama", "url": "https://governor.alabama.gov/newsroom/2024/05/governor-ivey-announces-meta-plans-to-build-800-million-next-generation-data-center-in-montgomery/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Docket 33709 document list pages 2-3 need ASP.NET postbacks and were not read, so the Dotier, Alabama ADC Holdings and Woostor contract filings were not retrieved.", "Alabama Power's IRP load forecast and any certificate or acquisition dockets tied to data center load (e.g., Lindsay Hill) were not reviewed beyond a keyword scan of one summary report." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Docket Number: 33709 - docket details", "publisher": "Alabama Public Service Commission", "url": "https://www.pscpublicaccess.alabama.gov/pscpublicaccess/PSC/DocketDetailsPage.aspx?DocketId=704fddec-2d56-4cb1-8647-7ae1eacf0108", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Docket 33709 Public Comment and Reply Info", "publisher": "Alabama Public Service Commission", "url": "https://psc.alabama.gov/docket-33709-public-comment-and-reply-info/", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Docket 33709 - Docket Documents list (page 1 of 3)", "publisher": "Alabama Public Service Commission", "url": "https://www.pscpublicaccess.alabama.gov/pscpublicaccess/page/docket-docs/PSC/DocketDetails.aspx?DocketId=704fddec-2d56-4cb1-8647-7ae1eacf0108", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "ADEM eFile (air and water permit documents by facility) was not searched.", "Jefferson County Department of Health air permit notices, the air authority for Birmingham, Bessemer and Fairfield sites, were not browsed directly.", "Applications older than the 30-day window and local building or grading permits (e.g., Birmingham permits for the Nebius site) were not reached." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Permit Applications Received (applications received in the last 30 days)", "publisher": "Alabama Department of Environmental Management", "url": "https://adem.alabama.gov/permit-applications?page=1", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "ADEM eFile document search", "publisher": "Alabama Department of Environmental Management", "url": "http://app.adem.alabama.gov/efile/", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Bessemer's November 2025 rezoning ordinance was not retrieved.", "Birmingham zoning, Zoning Board of Adjustment and City Council records for the Nebius site were not retrieved.", "Jefferson County assessor and GIS parcel records were not queried.", "Westover, Fairfield, Prichard, Columbiana, Childersburg, Calvert and Lowndes County minutes were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ordinance No. 3698 (AL Bessemer Land LLC Rezoning Ordinance)", "publisher": "City of Bessemer", "url": "https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/68ecf5da428edc78da18d9bb/69f88e09ad184fe8620dd06f_AL%20Bessemer%20Land%20LLC%20Rezoning%20Ordinance.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City Clerk", "publisher": "City of Bessemer", "url": "https://bessemeral.org/departments/city-clerk", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Planning and Zoning Commission Agendas and Minutes", "publisher": "City of Bessemer", "url": "https://www.bessemeral.org/planning-zoning-commission-agendas-minutes/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No IDB, county or city abatement agreement was opened for any Alabama data center.", "Lowndes County (Project Red Clay), Jefferson County, Montgomery, Madison County and Jackson County abatement records were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "'I would make the same decision': Board chair defends incentives for Birmingham data center project", "publisher": "WBHM", "url": "https://www.wbhm.org/local-news/2026-07-01/i-would-make-the-same-decision-board-chair-defends-incentives-for-birmingham-data-center-project", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Colocation and enterprise operators other than DC BLOX in Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile and Montgomery were not enumerated.", "Nebius's Birmingham project page and QTS disclosures were not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "High Performance Computing and Data Center Construction Ready to Begin", "publisher": "The University of Alabama (UA News)", "url": "https://news.ua.edu/2024/11/stage-iv-approval-for-high-performance-computing-center/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Directory listings (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com) were not used as cross-references.", "Compute Atlas coordinates were not copied because its precision flags were not reconciled with its notes." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas facilities snapshot, Alabama extract (18 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas (Edward Kubiak)", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Moratorium ordinances and any withdrawn applications were not retrieved from the municipalities or counties.", "Meta Huntsville's paused expansion was not confirmed from a retrieved source." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Morgan County, Alabama, passes data center moratorium, blocking cryptomine proposal", "publisher": "DatacenterDynamics", "url": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/morgan-county-alabama-passes-data-center-moratorium-blocking-cryptomine-proposal/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No county-by-county news sweep; Bessemer, Birmingham, Lowndes and Morgan County coverage was seen mostly as search snippets." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Alabama Power promises data center protections, but its proposed rate structure redacts them", "publisher": "Energy and Policy Institute", "url": "https://energyandpolicy.org/alabama-power-data-center-contracts-redacted/", "evidence_class": "advocacy_or_research" }, { "title": "Proposed data centers could use more electricity than all Alabama homes combined. Who will pay?", "publisher": "WBHM (Inside Climate News)", "url": "https://www.wbhm.org/local-news/2026-08-22/proposed-data-centers-could-use-more-electricity-than-all-alabama-homes-combined-who-will-pay", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Proposed data center in Prichard draws mixed reactions", "publisher": "FOX10 News (WALA)", "url": "https://www.fox10tv.com/2026/06/01/proposed-data-center-prichard-draws-mixed-reactions/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 1, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 0 }, { "name": "Alaska", "abbr": "AK", "region": "West", "slug": "alaska", "url": "/alaska/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-14" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "commerce.alaska.gov could not be retrieved during review, so state incentive and tax credit programs were not reviewed.", "Alaska Legislature bill tracking was not searched for data center legislation.", "No AIDEA board packet or meeting minute was opened." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority home page", "publisher": "Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority", "url": "https://www.aidea.org/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Office of the Governor newsroom", "publisher": "State of Alaska, Office of the Governor", "url": "https://gov.alaska.gov/newsroom/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "rca.alaska.gov could not be retrieved during review; no docket, order or tariff was searched.", "Golden Valley Electric Association, Chugach Electric and Matanuska Electric large-load or cryptocurrency-mining tariffs were not examined.", "No utility integrated resource plan or load forecast was read." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "dec.alaska.gov could not be retrieved during review, so no air permit list or search was reached.", "The public-notice keyword search remained unreliable; the STAK land records were reopened later by exact notice and attachment IDs.", "No wastewater, stormwater or gravel-extraction permit search was run for the North Slope site." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Alaska Online Public Notices — notice search", "publisher": "State of Alaska", "url": "https://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/Notices/Search.aspx", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No borough development permit, zoning case or assembly ordinance was retrieved.", "The borough GIS portal (gis-public.north-slope.org) was not queried for the lease parcel.", "Anchorage and Fairbanks North Star Borough planning and permit systems were not searched, so urban Alaska data center activity is uncovered." ], "sources": [ { "title": "North Slope Borough home page", "publisher": "North Slope Borough", "url": "https://www.north-slope.org/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "North Slope Borough Planning & Community Services", "publisher": "North Slope Borough", "url": "https://www.north-slope.org/departments/planning-community-services/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Final Finding and Decision, appeal disposition, entry authorization or perfected lease was retrieved for ADL 422741.", "No borough property tax abatement or payment-in-lieu arrangement was searched.", "DNR's broader Land Administration System was not used to establish a later disposition; exact published records were reviewed instead." ], "sources": [ { "title": "DNR Public Information Center — public notices and news releases", "publisher": "Alaska Department of Natural Resources", "url": "https://dnr.alaska.gov/commis/pic/pubnotfrm.htm", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "DNR Land Records and case file search tools", "publisher": "Alaska Department of Natural Resources", "url": "https://dnr.alaska.gov/landrecords/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Alaska State Land Sales", "publisher": "Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mining, Land and Water", "url": "https://dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/landsales/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Alaska Communications, Alaska Power & Telephone, Quintillion, university and federal computing facilities were not checked.", "Hyperscaler location pages (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle, Apple) were not checked for Alaska presence.", "No Anchorage, Fairbanks or Juneau colocation operator page was examined." ], "sources": [ { "title": "STAK Energy | Alaska's Energy. America's Future.", "publisher": "STAK Energy", "url": "https://stak.energy/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "GCI home page", "publisher": "GCI", "url": "https://www.gci.com/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Directory listings (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, PeeringDB) were not yet reviewed directly for Alaska, so Anchorage and Fairbanks colocation is entirely uncovered." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for AK (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The Alaska Beacon article behind the 715.4-acre figure is blocked by Cloudflare.", "Northern Journal has moved to Anchorage Press, whose search archive returns no Stak Energy results, so the originating reporting was not read.", "No sweep for abandoned Alaska cryptocurrency-mining conversions was possible." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Anchorage Press search archive for Stak Energy", "publisher": "Anchorage Press", "url": "https://www.anchoragepress.com/search/?q=Stak+Energy", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Northern Journal", "publisher": "Northern Journal", "url": "https://www.northernjournal.com/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "A broader Alaska news sweep was not completed, so unrelated or later projects may remain undiscovered." ], "sources": [ { "title": "A huge data center could rise on Alaska's North Slope", "publisher": "Anchorage Daily News", "url": "https://www.adn.com/business-economy/2026/05/18/a-huge-data-center-could-rise-on-alaskas-north-slope/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Alaska's North Slope proposed as home for massive AI data center", "publisher": "Alaska Public Media", "url": "https://alaskapublic.org/news/economy/energy/2026-05-26/alaskas-north-slope-proposed-as-home-for-massive-ai-data-center", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-13", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 3, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Arizona", "abbr": "AZ", "region": "West", "slug": "arizona", "url": "/arizona/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Arizona Commerce Authority Computer Data Center Program page and any certified-facility list could not be retrieved during review.", "No Arizona Department of Revenue data on exempt computer data centres was searched.", "City- and county-level economic development announcement pages (Mesa, Goodyear, Buckeye, Casa Grande) were not swept." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Arizona Laws 2026, Chapter 140 (HB 4168)", "publisher": "Arizona State Legislature", "url": "https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/2r/laws/0140.htm", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "APS rate case docket E-01345A-25-0105 and its XHLF tariff sheets were not yet reviewed directly.", "Salt River Project is a political subdivision outside ACC jurisdiction and no SRP large-load filing was searched.", "The ACC eDocket search interface itself was not used; only direct document-image URLs found through search were retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Application of Tucson Electric Power Company for approval of a special agreement for electric service with Humphrey's Peak Power, LLC, ACC Docket E-01933A-25-0187", "publisher": "Arizona Corporation Commission", "url": "https://docket.images.azcc.gov/E000045992.pdf?i=1765322386636", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Arizona Corporation Commission, February 4, 2026 Open Meeting Highlights", "publisher": "Arizona Corporation Commission", "url": "https://www.azcc.gov/news/home/2026/02/06/february-4--2026-open-meeting-highlights", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "ACC Data Center/Large Load Workshop Highlights", "publisher": "Arizona Corporation Commission", "url": "https://www.azcc.gov/news/home/2026/04/20/acc-large-load-data-center-workshop-highlights", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Maricopa County Air Quality permit portal (Maricopa.Gov/1624) was not yet reviewed directly, so no air permit was retrieved from the county itself.", "Pinal County and Pima County air permit records were not searched.", "ADWR assured water supply and Phoenix AMA pages were identified but not yet reviewed directly.", "No stormwater construction general permit notices were searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Arizona Department of Water Resources — Phoenix AMA Groundwater Supply Updates", "publisher": "Arizona Department of Water Resources", "url": "https://www.azwater.gov/phoenix-ama-groundwater-supply-updates", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Maricopa County assessor and GIS parcel portals were not queried for data centre ownership.", "Maricopa County case MCP250007 (Project Baccara military compatibility permit) was not yet reviewed directly.", "City of Goodyear, City of El Mirage, City of Avondale, City of Tolleson and Pinal County planning portals were not searched.", "The Board agenda item carrying the CPA250008 decision was not located." ], "sources": [ { "title": "City of Mesa Planning and Zoning Board staff report, case ZON24-00291 (Project Borealis)", "publisher": "City of Mesa", "url": "https://legistar1.granicus.com/Mesa/attachments/a49b6d5a-09db-4b36-845e-756af027c367.doc", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Maricopa County Board of Supervisors' Hearing Planning and Zoning Agenda, June 10, 2026", "publisher": "Maricopa County", "url": "https://www.maricopa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/10316?fileID=100604", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Pima County Administrator memorandum to the Board of Supervisors, 'Update on Project Blue', 17 September 2025", "publisher": "Pima County", "url": "https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/2192e865-fe7e-48f4-8a0c-7c1c8b5cd32c", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Mesa GPLET lease documents for the Google site were referenced by the licensed dataset but not retrieved.", "No Arizona county or municipal tax-abatement database was searched.", "Goodyear and El Mirage water service agreements for the Microsoft campuses were not located." ], "sources": [ { "title": "City of Mesa Council Report, matter 21-0552 — Development Agreement and Sustainable Water Service Agreement with Redale LLC", "publisher": "City of Mesa", "url": "https://legistar1.granicus.com/Mesa/attachments/7e390610-b558-426d-aa10-c7aa2825530d.doc", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City of Buckeye Regular Council Meeting Minutes, August 6, 2024", "publisher": "City of Buckeye", "url": "https://buckeyeaz.granicus.com/services/minutes/reports/23859ad0-eafd-4e39-b582-796e20fdc9cb/attachment", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Oracle and AWS Arizona location pages were not yet reviewed directly.", "Colocation operator pages (QTS, STACK, Vantage, Stream, Compass, EdgeConneX, Iron Mountain, Digital Realty, phoenixNAP, H5, Flexential) were not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Aligned Data Centers — Phoenix facilities page", "publisher": "Aligned Data Centers", "url": "https://aligneddc.com/phoenix/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No unlicensed directory (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, PeeringDB) was consulted." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas extract records for AZ (snapshot 71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No archived-page sweep was done for renamed or withdrawn Arizona projects.", "Reports that the Attorney General appealed the ACC's Project Blue decision in February 2026 were seen only in search results and are not recorded." ], "sources": [ { "title": "City of Chandler City Council Regular Meeting Minutes, December 11, 2025", "publisher": "City of Chandler", "url": "https://public.destinyhosted.com/chanddocs/2026/CC/20260108_2104/9268_20251211_regular-meeting_FINAL.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Regulations for Large-Scale Data Centers, Unified Development Code amendment — City of Tucson", "publisher": "City of Tucson", "url": "https://www.tucsonaz.gov/Departments/Planning-Development-Services/Planning-Initiatives/Data-Centers-Unified-Development-Code-Amendment", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "not_searched", "gaps": [ "No news source is recorded in sources.json, so news-only leads in this state are not traceable from the current research record." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 1, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 0 }, { "name": "Arkansas", "abbr": "AR", "region": "South", "slug": "arkansas", "url": "/arkansas/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-11" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Department of Finance and Administration list of data center exemption certificates located.", "AEDC newsroom not browsed beyond search hits; the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for this state." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Google Locating New Data Center in West Memphis, Arkansas with Multi-Billion Dollar Investment", "publisher": "Arkansas Economic Development Commission", "url": "https://www.arkansasedc.com/news-events/newsroom/detail/2025/10/02/google-locating-new-data-center-in-west-memphis--arkansas-with-multi-billion-dollar-investment", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "AVAIO Digital Announces New Large-Scale AI-Ready Data Center and Power Campus in Little Rock, Arkansas", "publisher": "Arkansas Economic Development Commission", "url": "https://www.arkansasedc.com/news-events/newsroom/detail/2026/01/12/avaio-digital-announces-new-large-scale-ai-ready-data-center-and-power-campus-in-little-rock--arkansas", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "APSC order in 25-055-P (reported December 2025) not retrieved; the legacy docket index URL no longer lists filings.", "Related docket 26-002-U not read.", "Entergy Arkansas large-load tariff or rider filings not reviewed.", "Generation dockets tied to Google (solar) not reviewed; generation kept out of data center capacity." ], "sources": [ { "title": "APSC Docket 25-055-P, Doc. 1: docket summary cover sheet and motion for protective order (Entergy Arkansas special rate customer contract)", "publisher": "Arkansas Public Service Commission", "url": "http://www.apscservices.info/pdf/25/25-055-P_1_1.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "APSC Docket 25-055-P, Doc. 27: Entergy Arkansas filing of September 9, 2025 on the special rate customer contract", "publisher": "Arkansas Public Service Commission", "url": "http://www.apscservices.info/pdf/25/25-055-P_27_1.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "APSC Docket 26-011-U, Doc. 1: docket summary and motion for protective order (agreement for electric service with Avaio Digital Partners)", "publisher": "Arkansas Public Service Commission", "url": "http://www.apscservices.info/pdf/26/26-011-U_1_1.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "ADEQ air permits for Serverfarm Clarksville, Google West Memphis and AVAIO Leo not retrieved.", "Corps Section 404 notices could not be retrieved during review.", "ADEQ construction stormwater notices not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "DEQ Facility and Permit Summary: Permit Data System (PDS)", "publisher": "Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment, Division of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://www.adeq.state.ar.us/home/pdssql/pds.aspx", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "West Memphis council ordinances with Groot, LLC (May 2025) not found on a city site.", "No assessor or GIS parcel lookups for Crittenden, Pulaski, Johnson, Faulkner or Union counties.", "A City of Conway site search was not performed because the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 SPECIAL City Council Agenda: memorandum of understanding for a special economic development project", "publisher": "City of Conway", "url": "https://media.conwayarkansas.gov/media/council/agenda/April_1_2025_Special_City_Council_Agenda_QLeL2dQ.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Executed PILOT, bond and lease agreements (West Memphis, Little Rock, Clarksville, Conway) not retrieved.", "Clarksville and West Memphis ordinance numbers not seen." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Resolution authorizing a Memorandum of Understanding with Willowbend Capital, LLC for a project at the Little Rock Port (Board of Directors agenda, April 29, 2025, item R-3)", "publisher": "City of Little Rock", "url": "https://www.littlerock.gov/city-administration/board-of-directors/meeting-agenda/AGENDA%20-%20WEB%20-%204-29-2025/R%20-%203%20LRPA%20-%20MOU.pdf", "evidence_class": "agreement" }, { "title": "Council Approves Bonds For Data Center; Development Agreement Will Provide Funds To Community", "publisher": "The Johnson County Graphic", "url": "https://www.thegraphic.org/2026/08/04/council-approves-bonds-for-data-center-development-agreement-will-provide-funds-to-community/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Data center campus planned for West Memphis after council members' OK", "publisher": "Arkansas Democrat-Gazette", "url": "https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/may/22/data-center-campus-planned-for-west-memphis-after/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "AWS, Microsoft, Oracle and Apple disclosures not checked for Arkansas sites (AWS and Oracle publish no site lists; Microsoft's map is interactive).", "Other colocation and enterprise facilities in Arkansas not swept." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Google announces new $4 billion investment in Arkansas", "publisher": "Google", "url": "https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-announcements/google-american-innovation-arkansas/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Google data center locations", "publisher": "Google", "url": "https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Meta data centers", "publisher": "Meta", "url": "https://datacenters.atmeta.com/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Directories (Data Center Map, Baxtel, dcmap.us) seen only in search results and not used." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas facilities snapshot: Arkansas records", "publisher": "Compute Atlas (Edward Kubiak)", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No archived operator pages, renamed facilities or closed Arkansas data centers researched.", "Moratorium outcomes checked only via search snippets." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Project Pulse flatlines: Agreement terminated after buyer fails to make deposit by deadline", "publisher": "The Arkadelphian", "url": "https://arkadelphian.com/2026/04/30/project-pulse-topic-of-special-edccc-meeting-friday-morning/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Data center eyes Clark County, set to buy mega site in $11M deal", "publisher": "The Arkadelphian", "url": "https://arkadelphian.com/2026/04/16/data-center-eyes-clark-county-set-to-buy-mega-site-in-11m-deal/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Fayetteville data center project halted as developers withdraw appeal", "publisher": "FOX 5 Atlanta", "url": "https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/fayetteville-propose-data-center-withdrawn", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Arkansas Advocate project map (2026-08-24) not readable (unavailable during review)." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Arkansas Data Center Policy", "publisher": "Server Country", "url": "https://servercountry.org/policy/arkansas/", "evidence_class": "advocacy_or_research" }, { "title": "Google's $1 billion Port of Little Rock data center buildings to cover 1.43 million square feet", "publisher": "Arkansas Democrat-Gazette", "url": "https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2026/mar/31/googles-1b-port-of-little-rock-data-center/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Entergy re-submits AVAIO power agreement to Arkansas Public Service Commission", "publisher": "Arkansas Democrat-Gazette", "url": "https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2026/sep/09/entergy-re-submits-avaio-power-agreement-to/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 3, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "California", "abbr": "CA", "region": "West", "slug": "california", "url": "/california/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 5, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-17" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The GO-Biz California Business Portal incentives page could not be read: secure connection handshake failure.", "California Competes Tax Credit award lists were not yet reviewed directly, so any data center recipients there are unknown.", "No county or city enterprise-zone, community-benefit or fee-credit programme was surveyed." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Tax Guide for Manufacturing, and Research & Development, and Electric Power Equipment & Buildings Exemption", "publisher": "California Department of Tax and Fee Administration", "url": "https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/industry/manufacturing-exemptions.htm", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Incentives and Financing — California Business Portal (GO-Biz)", "publisher": "Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development", "url": "https://www.businessportal.ca.gov/Incentives/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "PG&E's Electric Rule 30 transmission-interconnection application and its interim approval of 24 July 2025 were identified in search results but not yet reviewed directly.", "No Silicon Valley Power electric service agreement, large-load tariff or City of Santa Clara council agenda report was read; the city web server blocked the projects listing.", "SMUD, LADWP, Vernon Public Utility and Pittsburg Power Company large-load records were not searched.", "CAISO and utility interconnection queues were not examined." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data Centers — California Energy Commission programs and topics page", "publisher": "California Energy Commission", "url": "https://www.energy.ca.gov/programs-and-topics/topics/data-centers", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Proposed Order Instituting Rulemaking on California Advanced Electric Rate Design (Agenda ID #24097, Rev. 1)", "publisher": "California Public Utilities Commission", "url": "https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M604/K449/604449740.PDF", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "SCAQMD and SMAQMD permit databases were not searched at all, so Los Angeles basin and Sacramento generator permits are missing.", "BAAQMD's own permit and public-notice database was not queried directly; only two BAAQMD documents reached through CEQAnet and the air district's CEQA letters directory were read.", "Water withdrawal, discharge and stormwater construction general permit notices were not searched.", "CEC opt-in certification and Application for Certification cases above 100 MW were not enumerated; one such certification is reported for the AVAIO Pittsburg site and was not read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Power Plant Compliance and Siting — backup generating system and Small Power Plant Exemption case index", "publisher": "California Energy Commission", "url": "https://www.energy.ca.gov/programs-and-topics/topics/power-plants/power-plant-compliance-and-siting", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "RB Inyokern Data Center (26-SPPE-01) — CEC project page", "publisher": "California Energy Commission", "url": "https://www.energy.ca.gov/powerplant/backup-generating-system/rb-inyokern-data-center", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "AVAIO Pittsburg Backup Generating Facility (24-SPPE-01) — CEC project page", "publisher": "California Energy Commission", "url": "https://www.energy.ca.gov/powerplant/backup-generating-system/avaio-pittsburg-backup-generating-facility-pbgf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "CEQAnet's free-text query parameter is not honoured by the server on a plain GET, so no systematic keyword sweep of California CEQA documents for 'data center' was possible.", "The City of Santa Clara web server could not be retrieved during review, so no Santa Clara planning file numbers or Silicon Valley Power agreements were read for the ten-plus Santa Clara projects in the current research record.", "No county assessor or GIS parcel portal was queried for any California county; every parcel number here comes from a CEC or CEQAnet description.", "San Jose's Legistar council record, where the Prologis STEM Park item would sit, was not reached.", "Los Angeles, Irvine, El Segundo, Vernon, Newark, Fremont, Sacramento, San Diego and Imperial County planning portals were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Gilroy Data Center (by Amazon Web Services) — official City project page", "publisher": "City of Gilroy", "url": "https://www.cityofgilroy.org/1019/Gilroy-Data-Center-by-AWS", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "CEQAnet SCH 2021080438 — CA3 Data Center, Notice of Preparation of a Draft EIR", "publisher": "Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (CEQAnet State Clearinghouse)", "url": "https://ceqanet.lci.ca.gov/2021080438", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "CEQAnet SCH 2025030999 — SVY03A Data Center Campus, Mitigated Negative Declaration", "publisher": "Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (CEQAnet State Clearinghouse)", "url": "https://ceqanet.lci.ca.gov/2025030999", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No executed development agreement, ground lease or community benefits agreement document was opened.", "The San Jose exclusive negotiating agreement or ground lease for the city-owned STEM Park parcel was not located on the city site.", "Redevelopment successor agency and infrastructure financing district records were not searched." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle and Apple location disclosures were not yet reviewed directly; the Microsoft sites here come from CEC and CEQAnet records instead.", "Colocation operator location pages (Equinix, Digital Realty, CoreSite, STACK, Prime, NTT, Centersquare, Cologix, EdgeConneX, QTS, Serverfarm, Csquare, T5, DataBank, ScaleMatrix) were not retrieved; their facilities here rest on the Compute Atlas extract.", "No operator sustainability or investor filing was checked for California-specific capacity." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Amazon data center investment: local jobs, education, sustainability", "publisher": "Amazon", "url": "https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-data-center-investment-community-impact", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Vantage Data Centers — Silicon Valley data center campus location page", "publisher": "Vantage Data Centers", "url": "https://vantage-dc.com/data_center_locations/silicon-valley-data-center-campus/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Data Center Map was not yet reviewed directly; no directory listing was used as evidence.", "Compute Atlas leads not individually examined beyond the extract fields were not turned into research leads, including most Equinix, Digital Realty, Csquare, EdgeConneX, Lumen and CoreSite entries.", "No cross-check against FracTracker, Baxtel, datacenters.com, Cloudscene or PeeringDB was attempted." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas California state extract (69 records), snapshot 71df1457", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" }, { "title": "Data Center Map — California listing", "publisher": "Data Center Map", "url": "https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/california/", "evidence_class": "directory_listing" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No City of Coachella ordinance, resolution or minutes could be read, so the agreement termination and the reported permanent data center prohibition rest on a dataset lead only.", "The City of Monterey Park letter documenting the 1977 Saturn Street cancellation did not respond during review.", "Older California closures and demolitions — 1990s and 2000s carrier hotels, Herakles, Above.net and Savvis-era sites, and any data center lost to redevelopment — were not searched.", "No archived or Wayback retrieval was attempted for retired operator pages." ], "sources": [ { "title": "CEQAnet SCH 2012121003 — T5 Data Expansion Project (EA 971) 444 North Nash Street", "publisher": "Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (CEQAnet State Clearinghouse)", "url": "https://ceqanet.lci.ca.gov/2012121003", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Letter to City of Monterey Park regarding the 1977 Saturn Street data center application (LAX)", "publisher": "City of Monterey Park", "url": "https://www.montereypark.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/18798/26_03_31_SIGNED_LAX---Letter-to-City-of-Monterey-Park", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The Little Hoover Commission report and the Assembly oversight hearing materials were not read.", "No systematic sweep of California local news for data center moratoria was done; moratoria are reported in Coachella and Imperial County and neither was confirmed from a government record." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2026-11-17", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "5 published sites here are still being proposed, approved or built, so this state is looked at again 60 days after the recorded evidence check on 2026-09-18.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-18.", "5 published sites here are still being proposed, approved or built, so this state is looked at again 60 days after the recorded evidence check on 2026-09-18." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 9, "distinct_counties": 4, "multi_source_records": 3 }, { "name": "Colorado", "abbr": "CO", "region": "West", "slug": "colorado", "url": "/colorado/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade incentive award records were not searched.", "Local incentive agreements were not obtained from any city or county clerk." ], "sources": [ { "title": "HB26-1030 Data Center & Utility Modernization", "publisher": "Colorado General Assembly", "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb26-1030", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "SB24-085 Sales & Use Tax Rebate for Digital Asset Purchases", "publisher": "Colorado General Assembly", "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-085", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The PUC E-Filings docket system itself was not searched; individual filings and testimony in 26AL-0137E, which may name specific large-load customers, were not read.", "Black Hills Energy and Colorado Springs Utilities large-load filings were not searched.", "No interconnection or large-load queue naming specific Colorado sites was reached." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Electric Rate Cases — Colorado Public Utilities Commission (Xcel Large Load Tariff, Proceeding No. 26AL-0137E)", "publisher": "Colorado Public Utilities Commission", "url": "https://puc.colorado.gov/electric-rate-cases", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "SB26-102 Large-Load Data Centers", "publisher": "Colorado General Assembly", "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-102", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "environmentalrecords.colorado.gov could not be opened (SSL certificate subject-name mismatch), so no issued air permits or permit numbers were retrieved.", "Closed and archived notice periods were not reviewed.", "Water, stormwater and local building or grading permits were not searched at all." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Colorado air permit public notices — current public notice periods", "publisher": "Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Air Pollution Control Division", "url": "https://cdphe.colorado.gov/air-permit-public-notices", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Colorado environmental records search (air permit documents)", "publisher": "Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment", "url": "https://environmentalrecords.colorado.gov/HPRMWebDrawerHM/Search?q=QTS", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No assessor or GIS parcel record was queried for any Colorado site.", "Logan County's new agenda centre was not searched item by item, so the Granite Renewables file was not found.", "Arapahoe, Adams, Douglas, El Paso and Pueblo county land-use case systems were not searched.", "Denver, Boulder County, Broomfield and Jefferson County moratorium ordinances were not retrieved from the jurisdictions themselves." ], "sources": [ { "title": "City Council Special Meeting – Project Taurus Appeal", "publisher": "City of Colorado Springs", "url": "https://coloradosprings.gov/node/164114", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Planning Commission Special Appeal Hearing — Corporate Ridge File No. 1 Lot 4 Development Plan Modification", "publisher": "City of Colorado Springs", "url": "https://coloradosprings.gov/node/163850", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Weld County Commissioners approve Global AI data center permit", "publisher": "Weld County, Colorado", "url": "https://www.weld.gov/Newsroom/2026-News/Weld-County-Commissioners-approve-Global-AI-data-center-permit", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Aurora ordinance or Arapahoe County resolution granting the QTS incentives was retrieved.", "No Colorado urban renewal authority, PILOT or development agreement was searched." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle and Apple location pages were not checked for Colorado sites.", "CoreSite, DataBank, Iron Mountain, EdgeConneX and Novva location pages were not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "QTS Denver 1 data center location page", "publisher": "QTS Data Centers", "url": "https://q.com/data-centers/denver/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "The Facts About RAEDEN's Colorado Springs Data Center (Project Taurus)", "publisher": "RAEDEN", "url": "https://raeden.com/colorado-springs-data-center-project-taurus-faqs/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Nine Compute Atlas Colorado records (DataBank DEN2 and DEN5, EdgeConneX DEN01, four other Flexential Denver-area sites, Iron Mountain DEN-1, QTS Colorado Springs and Prometheus Hyperscale Fort Morgan) were listed but not examined individually and are not research leads.", "No commercial directory was consulted." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for Colorado (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Colorado Newsline's moratorium article could not be retrieved during review.", "No archived operator page or rename/acquisition record was checked for Colorado colocation sites." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Logan County Commissioners Work Session minutes, October 14, 2025", "publisher": "Logan County, Colorado", "url": "https://logancounty.colorado.gov/sites/logancounty/files/October%2014,%202025%20Minutes.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Colorado Public Radio and Colorado Newsline articles could not be opened; their content is not relied on." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. 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It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No public DECD register of qualified data center agreements or certificates was found; the page offers only staff contact details.", "Whether any DECD agreement has been executed, and with whom, could not be established from an opened source." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Office of Data Infrastructure Administration and Security – About (data center tax incentive program, PA 21-1)", "publisher": "Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development", "url": "https://portal.ct.gov/decd/content/business-development/data-infrastructure-administration-and-security/office-of-data-infrastructure-administration-and-security/about", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Both PURA docket entry points tried failed, so no PURA large-load tariff, special contract or electric service agreement docket was searched.", "No ISO-NE or Eversource large-load interconnection queue record was consulted." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Petition No. 1586 docket index – Dominion Energy Nuclear Connecticut, Inc., Millstone Power Station site boundaries", "publisher": "Connecticut Siting Council", "url": "https://portal.ct.gov/CSC/3_Petitions/Petition-Nos-1501-1600/PE1586", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "DRAFT Staff Report, Petition No. 1586, Dominion Energy Nuclear Connecticut, Inc., Rope Ferry Road, Waterford (December 15, 2023)", "publisher": "Connecticut Siting Council", "url": "https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/CSC/4_CSC_CalendarofEvents/MeetingMaterials/2023/2023_1221/P1586draftSR12122023_a.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Petition List 1500-1999 (dispositions of Siting Council petitions)", "publisher": "Connecticut Siting Council", "url": "https://portal.ct.gov/csc/decisions/petition-lists/petition-list-1500-1999", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "DEEP's permit-issuance and public-notice databases were not queried; only the programme pages were read.", "Municipal building and grading permit systems were not reachable (see the municipal family).", "No stormwater construction general permit registration list was searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Air Permitting & Inventory", "publisher": "Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection", "url": "https://portal.ct.gov/deep/air/permits/air-permits", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Norwalk, Waterford and Bozrah municipal sites (207.38.77.0/24 and 207.38.78.0/24 hosts) refused all connections, so no planning case file, zoning decision or building permit was read.", "The CAMA layer's Location and Parcel_ID fields are null for many Norwalk rows, so 6 Norden Place could not be matched; absence from the query is not evidence of absence on the ground.", "The assessor use code is the only screen applied; data centers coded under a generic commercial or industrial use would not appear." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Connecticut CAMA and Parcel Layer – query State_Use_Description LIKE '%DATA%'", "publisher": "Connecticut GIS Office (statewide CAMA and parcel layer, C.G.S. Sec. 4d-90-92)", "url": "https://services3.arcgis.com/3FL1kr7L4LvwA2Kb/arcgis/rest/services/Connecticut_CAMA_and_Parcel_Layer/FeatureServer/0/query?where=UPPER%28State_Use_Description%29+LIKE+%27%25DATA%25%27&outFields=Location_1%2CParcel_ID%2CTown_Name%2CProperty_City%2COwner%2CCo_Owner%2CLand_Acres%2CZone%2CState_Use%2CState_Use_Description%2CAssessed_Total%2CValuation_Year%2CEffective_Area%2CAYB%2CCAMA_Collection_Year&returnGeometry=false&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Connecticut CAMA and Parcel Layer – query Town_Name='Waterford' AND Owner LIKE '%DOMINION ENERGY NUCLEAR%'", "publisher": "Connecticut GIS Office (statewide CAMA and parcel layer, C.G.S. Sec. 4d-90-92)", "url": "https://services3.arcgis.com/3FL1kr7L4LvwA2Kb/arcgis/rest/services/Connecticut_CAMA_and_Parcel_Layer/FeatureServer/0/query?where=Town_Name%3D%27Waterford%27+AND+UPPER%28Owner%29+LIKE+%27%25DOMINION+ENERGY+NUCLEAR%25%27&outFields=Location_1%2CParcel_ID%2CTown_Name%2CProperty_City%2COwner%2CCo_Owner%2CLand_Acres%2CZone%2CState_Use%2CState_Use_Description%2CAssessed_Total%2CValuation_Year%2CEffective_Area%2CAYB%2CCAMA_Collection_Year&returnGeometry=false&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The executed Waterford host municipality fee agreement was never read (unavailable during review).", "The Bozrah draft agreement with NE Edge LLC was never read (timeout).", "No Connecticut tax-abatement, PILOT or development agreement outside the PA 21-1 host-fee mechanism was searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Groton Data Center Host Municipality Fee Agreement (town notice page)", "publisher": "Town of Groton, Connecticut", "url": "https://groton-ct.gov/news_detail_T8_R208.php", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Town of Groton Council item 2022-43 — Data Center Update", "publisher": "Town of Groton, Connecticut", "url": "https://www.agendasuite.org/iip/groton/file/getfile/61287", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle and Apple were not individually checked for Connecticut sites; none appeared in any source opened here.", "Colocation operators beyond CyrusOne (for example 365 Data Centers, Evocative, Digital Realty) were not swept.", "Ownership of the NYM5 building was not confirmed from an opened source." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Norwalk, CT: NYM5 – data center site page", "publisher": "CyrusOne", "url": "https://www.cyrusone.com/data-centers/north-america/norwalk-ct", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Directory listings (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com) were seen only in search results and were not yet reviewed directly, so a 16 MW figure they report for NYM5 is not recorded anywhere in the current research record." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas facilities.json snapshot 71df145 – Connecticut extract (2 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The Waterford town record of the termination was not retrieved; the newspaper account is paywalled and the supporting statement comes from an advocacy site.", "The Groton Town Council minutes or resolution discontinuing the NE Edge agreement were not retrieved.", "No search was made for older Connecticut data center closures, demolitions or renames before 2021." ], "sources": [ { "title": "CCWEL Resources – Waterford data center project status", "publisher": "CCWEL (Citizens Concerned for Waterford's Environment and Land)", "url": "https://sites.google.com/view/ccwel-resources/home", "evidence_class": "advocacy_or_research" }, { "title": "Waterford data center plan likely over as host agreement expires", "publisher": "The Day (New London)", "url": "https://theday.com/news/869285/waterford-data-center-plan-likely-over-as-host-agreement-expires/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Groton Town Council votes to discontinue efforts to pursue agreement with data center developer", "publisher": "The Day (New London)", "url": "https://www.theday.com/local-news/20220330/groton-town-council-votes-to-discontinue-efforts-to-pursue-agreement-with-data-center-developer", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No systematic Connecticut news sweep was run; news was used only to locate primary records." ], "sources": [ { "title": "NE Edge transfers Waterford data center rights to new company", "publisher": "FFCCT", "url": "https://ffcct.org/ne-edge-transfers-waterford-data-center-rights-to-new-company/", "evidence_class": "advocacy_or_research" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. 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It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Council on Development Finance / Delaware Strategic Fund agendas and award lists not searched directly.", "Bill texts and enactment status for HB 233, HB 445 and HB 310 not retrieved from legis.delaware.gov." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "DelaFile docket filings (Delmarva's December 19, 2025 proposed tariff, testimony, any order) not yet reviewed directly.", "Delmarva Power load records reportedly listing an unnamed 100 MW Kent County project not located.", "Delaware Electric Cooperative and municipal utility large-load records not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Delaware PSC Opens Docket for Large Load Tariff, Pauses Interconnections", "publisher": "Delaware Public Service Commission", "url": "https://depsc.delaware.gov/2025/10/14/delaware-psc-opens-docket-for-large-load-tariff-pauses-interconnections/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "PSC Docket No. 25-0826: notice of public comment session on the Delmarva large load tariff", "publisher": "Delaware Public Service Commission", "url": "https://depsc.delaware.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2026/01/25-0826-Delmarva-Large-Load-Tariff-Notice-for-Public-Comment-Session.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "House Passes Bills to Protect Residents from Data Center Energy Costs", "publisher": "Delaware House Democratic Caucus", "url": "https://housedems.delaware.gov/2026/06/17/house-passes-bills-to-protect-residents-from-data-center-energy-costs/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Digital DNREC and air permit application notices were not swept systematically for other data center generator permits.", "Stormwater, wetlands and water allocation permits for data center sites not searched.", "No air permit application for Project Washington's 516 generators was found." ], "sources": [ { "title": "DNREC public notice CCE20260043: Starwood Digital Ventures Status Decision", "publisher": "Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control", "url": "https://dnrec.delaware.gov/public-notices/cce20260043/", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "DNREC Secretary's Coastal Zone Act Status Decision for Project Washington (letter to Starwood Digital Ventures, February 3, 2026)", "publisher": "Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control", "url": "https://documents.dnrec.delaware.gov/Admin/Public-Notices/CCE20260043/Status-Decision.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "DNREC Division of Air Quality: Synthetic Minor Draft Permit APC-2003/0285-OPERATION (SM)(NSPS)(A5), twelve emergency generators, JP Morgan Data Center CDC1", "publisher": "Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control", "url": "https://docs.dnrec.delaware.gov/render/2446576/c1b1b6791dc007b72fdca01fd2ea9fa568f551cf506d18581b522a1ea65cf5e667aa6b87b38cb1b1246515c1c0b04ca1/", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Applicant submissions and correspondence attached to the county project records were not yet reviewed directly, so approval progress beyond 'Active' is unknown.", "County structured floor-area and acreage fields were not used because their scope is unclear.", "PLUS agendas other than October 29, 2025 not reviewed.", "Assessor ownership records not queried for any research lead.", "Sussex County, Dover and other municipal planning records not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Preliminary Land Use Service (PLUS) meeting agenda, October 29, 2025", "publisher": "Delaware Office of State Planning Coordination", "url": "https://stateplanning.delaware.gov/plus/agenda/2025/20251029-agenda.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "New Castle County Active Plans", "publisher": "New Castle County", "url": "https://www.newcastlede.gov/410/Active-Plans", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "New Castle County land use project record 20250346 (Project Washington - North Campus)", "publisher": "New Castle County", "url": "https://www3.newcastlede.gov/project/details/default.aspx?ProjectKey=826789", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "County council and municipal agreement records not searched directly.", "The community benefits agreement reportedly offered to Harrington was not retrieved." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Apple not searched separately.", "Operator location subpages (DaSTOR, Data Canopy, Trijit) and Lumen facility listings not yet reviewed directly.", "Starwood Digital Ventures' own project materials not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "DaSTOR homepage", "publisher": "DaSTOR", "url": "https://www.dastor.com/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Data Canopy homepage", "publisher": "Data Canopy", "url": "https://datacanopy.com/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Trijit homepage", "publisher": "Trijit Web Services", "url": "https://www.trijit.com/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Directory listings (Data Center Map, Baxtel and similar) not examined." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas facilities snapshot 71df145 — Delaware extract", "publisher": "Compute Atlas (Edward Kubiak)", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" }, { "title": "Delaware Data Centers - 19 Facilities from 16 Operators", "publisher": "Data Center Map", "url": "https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/delaware/", "evidence_class": "directory_listing" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Superior Court appeal docket and voluntary dismissal not retrieved.", "Closures of older enterprise or colocation data centers in Delaware not searched.", "Later TDC litigation and settlement records not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board Decision and Final Order, Starwood Digital Ventures v. DNREC, CZICB Appeal No. 2026-01", "publisher": "Delaware Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board", "url": "https://documents.dnrec.delaware.gov/Admin/CZICB/Decisions/CZ-2026-01-Starwood-Digital-Ventures.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board page", "publisher": "Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control", "url": "https://dnrec.delaware.gov/coastal-zone-act/industrial-control-board/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Delaware Business Times article on three conversion sites not yet reviewed directly.", "Sierra Club project list not retrievable." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Harrington blocks one data center, but a larger Delaware project remains a mystery", "publisher": "Technical.ly", "url": "https://technical.ly/civics/harrington-rejects-data-center-while-mystery-delaware-project-lingers/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Two New Castle County industrial projects may become data centers", "publisher": "Spotlight Delaware", "url": "https://spotlightdelaware.org/2025/12/16/two-new-castle-county-industrial-projects-may-become-data-centers/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Data center complex proposed near Newark", "publisher": "Newark Post", "url": "https://www.newarkpostonline.com/news/data-center-complex-proposed-near-newark/article_25f31b5b-71d7-4975-9ace-213c3dbf35ff.html", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-13", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 3, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Florida", "abbr": "FL", "region": "South", "slug": "florida", "url": "/florida/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 0, "facility_count": 1, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No public roster of DR-14DCP certificate holders was found; recipient names may be confidential taxpayer information.", "SelectFlorida and county economic development authority announcement archives were not swept.", "No Florida Commerce or Governor's Office project-award announcement was retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Form DR-5DCP — Application for Data Center Property Certificate of Exemption", "publisher": "Florida Department of Revenue", "url": "https://floridarevenue.com/Forms_library/current/dr5dcp.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The FPSC docket index itself was not browsed, so other 2025-2026 filings that might name specific customers were not enumerated.", "FPL and Duke ten-year site plans and any special contracts or electric service agreements were not retrieved.", "No Florida utility publishes a large-load interconnection queue that was reachable in the current review." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Florida Energy for Innovation Association, Inc.'s Post-Hearing Brief, Docket No. 20250011-EI (Document No. 15001-2025)", "publisher": "Florida Public Service Commission", "url": "https://www.floridapsc.com/pscfiles/library/filings/2025/15001-2025/15001-2025.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "White Springs Agricultural Chemicals and Nucor Steel Florida's Notice of Intent to Seek and Motion for Official Recognition, Docket No. 20260064-EI (Document No. 05289-2026)", "publisher": "Florida Public Service Commission", "url": "https://www.floridapsc.com/pscfiles/library/filings/2026/05289-2026/05289-2026.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "APDS was down for maintenance; no air permit keyword search was completed for Florida.", "Water management district Environmental Resource Permits (SFWMD, SJRWMD, SWFWMD) were not searched, including the CoreSite OR1 ERP modification reported for May 2026.", "County and city building, grading and generator permit portals were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Air Permit Review Section", "publisher": "Florida Department of Environmental Protection", "url": "https://floridadep.gov/air/permitting-compliance/content/air-permit-review-section", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Air Permit Documents Search (APDS)", "publisher": "Florida Department of Environmental Protection", "url": "https://fldep.dep.state.fl.us/air/emission/apds/default.asp", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "St. Lucie County's Laserfiche public portal was not queried directly for Sentinel Grove, Willow Lakes or Atlas Compute.", "Citrus County, Okeechobee County, Osceola County, Nassau County and Miami-Dade County agenda and minutes systems were not reached.", "The Palm Beach County zoning resolution ZR-2025-014 download failed (connection reset) and the post-hearing BCC resolution recording the denial was never located.", "No Florida property appraiser or GIS parcel record was queried, so no research lead has a parcel ID confirmed from an assessor.", "The Fort Pierce city rezoning file for Willow Lakes was not located." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Palm Beach County Zoning Application Staff Report, Board of County Commissioners July 15 2026 — Project Tango, DOA/ZV-2025-01602", "publisher": "Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building Department", "url": "https://discover.pbcgov.org/pzb/zoning/Hearings-Meetings-BCC/2025-01602_Centeral%20Park%20Commerce_SR_BCC.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "PZB Zoning Division — Project Tango (Central Park Commerce Center) project page", "publisher": "Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building Department", "url": "https://discover.pbc.gov/pzb/zoning/Pages/Project_Tango.aspx", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Palm Beach County Zoning Resolution ZR-2025-014", "publisher": "Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building Department", "url": "https://discover.pbc.gov/pzb/zoning/Resolutions-ZR/ZR-2025-014.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Fort Meade's ordinance and agenda documents could not be retrieved during review; the development agreement text and its ordinance number are unknown.", "Florida counties' economic development ad valorem exemption ordinances were not searched.", "No county or city development, PILOT or infrastructure agreement was retrieved for any research lead." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Equinix's Miami IBX roster was blocked, so Equinix facilities beyond MI1 are unaccounted for.", "CoreSite, Digital Realty, Flexential, QTS, RadiusDC, Iron Mountain, Metrobloks and HostDime operator pages were not individually read.", "No hyperscaler location page was opened to confirm the absence of Florida sites; the finding rests on search results only." ], "sources": [ { "title": "JAX1 Data Center — Jacksonville, FL", "publisher": "Cologix", "url": "https://cologix.com/data-centers/jacksonville/jax1/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "CoreSite OR1 — Orlando data center page", "publisher": "CoreSite", "url": "https://www.coresite.com/data-center/or1-orlando", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Compute Atlas source URLs were followed only for the Project Tango, Sentinel Grove and FPSC leads; most of its underlying press and operator links were not yet reviewed directly.", "No unlicensed directory (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, PeeringDB) was used, so directory-only Florida facilities absent from Compute Atlas are missing." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas — Florida facility extract, snapshot 71df1457", "publisher": "Compute Atlas (Edward Kubiak)", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No county record of any of the five withdrawals or denials was retrieved; each rests on news or the Compute Atlas status field.", "Older Florida closures, demolitions, renames and acquisitions before 2024 were not searched at all.", "The Equinix MI1 rename from NAP of the Americas and the RadiusDC ownership chain were taken from Compute Atlas notes and not confirmed against filings." ], "sources": [ { "title": "'Not compatible': Palm Beach County rejects controversial Project Tango AI data center", "publisher": "WLRN", "url": "https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2026-07-16/project-tango-ai-data-center-palm-beach-rejected", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Developer of St. Lucie County data center project may withdraw plan amid new AI legislation", "publisher": "WPTV", "url": "https://www.wptv.com/wptv-investigates/scrapped-developer-of-st-lucie-county-data-center-project-may-withdraw-plan-amid-new-ai-legislation", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Only two news articles were opened; most reporting was seen as search-result snippets and is not cited.", "Advocacy trackers such as FloridaDataCenters.org were seen in search results but never opened or cited." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 2, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Georgia", "abbr": "GA", "region": "South", "slug": "georgia", "url": "/georgia/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 8, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-17" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Neither DOR document names a recipient, so no exemption certificate holder could be identified.", "The earlier (pre-May 9 2022) county table linked on the same page was not yet reviewed directly.", "A statewide DRI keyword sweep of every data-center row was not published; selected DRI initial forms and summaries were later opened for Project Camellia, Project Sail, QTS - Blakely and Kingston Technology Hub." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data Centers Sales & Use Tax Exemption - Aggregate Expenditures by County", "publisher": "Georgia Department of Revenue", "url": "https://dor.georgia.gov/data-centers-sales-use-tax-exemption-aggregate-expenditures-county", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "High-Technology Data Center Minimum Investment Thresholds by County (effective on or after May 9, 2022)", "publisher": "Georgia Department of Revenue", "url": "https://dor.georgia.gov/document/document/htdc-countyexpenditures-effective-or-after-may-9-2022pdf/download", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No searchable Georgia PSC docket URL was exposed, so docket 44280's full filing list and any Georgia Power IRP or large-load report were not enumerated.", "The order PDFs could not be read (image-only scans, no OCR performed), so nothing is quoted from the orders themselves.", "Georgia Power's Integrated Resource Plan, its large-load queue reporting and any electric service agreements were not retrieved; no research lead has a utility_request_mw figure.", "Several research leads are described as having applied to Georgia Power for specific loads (for example a 99 MW maximum at Statesboro and a 288 MW grid connection at Cartersville); none of those applications was located." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Document Filing #221165 — Order Approving Revisions to Georgia Power Company's Rules and Regulations, Docket 44280", "publisher": "Georgia Public Service Commission", "url": "https://psc.ga.gov/search/facts-document/?documentId=221165", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Document Filing #222325 — Order on Georgia Power Company's Revision to Rules and Regulations Tariff Compliance Filing, Docket 44280", "publisher": "Georgia Public Service Commission", "url": "https://psc.ga.gov/search/facts-document/?documentId=222325", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Georgia Public Service Commission home page", "publisher": "Georgia Public Service Commission", "url": "https://psc.ga.gov/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "GEOS was unavailable during review; no Georgia air permit application or issued permit was retrieved.", "The Georgia EPD air-quality permit reported issued for Serverfarm on 2026-06-29 and the 2026-07-02 Notices of Violation were not retrieved from EPD.", "The Georgia EPD reference SAS-2024-00075 associated with the DC BLOX Rockdale campus was not retrieved and is recorded only as a note.", "No water withdrawal, stormwater or county land-disturbance permit was searched for any research lead." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Air Protection Branch Forms and Permits", "publisher": "Georgia Environmental Protection Division", "url": "https://epd.georgia.gov/forms-permits/air-protection-branch-forms-permits", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Georgia EPD Online System (GEOS)", "publisher": "Georgia Environmental Protection Division", "url": "https://geos.epd.georgia.gov/", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Georgia EPD public notices index", "publisher": "Georgia Environmental Protection Division", "url": "https://epd.georgia.gov/public-notices", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Effingham County's Project Camellia page did not respond during review twice; the bounded public record now rests on the Georgia DRI filing rather than that county page.", "Coweta County's zoning case system was not reached, so Project Peach, Project Oak and Bridgeport still have no county record; Project Sail now has a Georgia DRI filing but not a county rezoning decision.", "No Bartow, Spalding, Douglas, Newton, Floyd, Carroll, Fulton, Rockdale, Richmond, Columbia, Hall, Muscogee, Troup, Early, Bulloch, Clayton or Cobb agenda, minutes or zoning file was retrieved; selected Georgia DRI filings were later opened for Kingston Technology Hub and QTS - Blakely.", "Only one Georgia assessor or GIS parcel record was queried, so 68 of 70 research leads carry no parcel identifier.", "the broad discovery sweep remains incomplete for Georgia, so remaining county portals could only be reached by guessing URLs." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Microsoft Data Center Project Information — Town of Tyrone", "publisher": "Town of Tyrone", "url": "https://www.tyronega.gov/datacenter", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Whitfield County Tax Parcel Information — parcel 13-060-01-000 (realkey 31339)", "publisher": "Whitfield County, Georgia (GIS / Tax Assessor)", "url": "https://gis.whitfieldcountyga.com/GIS/WCGIS/parceldetail.asp?txtrealkey=31339", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Project Camellia — OpenAI Data Center, Effingham County", "publisher": "Effingham County, Georgia", "url": "https://www.effinghamcounty.org/902/Project-Camellia-OpenAI-Data-Center", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Georgia development authority agreement, bond resolution or superior court validation order was retrieved; the Clayton County award is documented only through a news account.", "The Fayette County Development Authority incentives page could not be retrieved during review.", "The $1.2 billion Integra SPV equipment-bond validation reported for CoreWeave Dalton II in June 2026 was not obtained, so the research lead has no agreement in evidence.", "The Town of Tyrone record affirmatively states no abatement was requested or offered there, which is the only abatement fact confirmed from a government source in the current research record." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Clayton County, Ga., Agency Approves Tax Break for Data Center", "publisher": "Government Technology (republishing The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)", "url": "https://www.govtech.com/policy/clayton-county-ga-agency-approves-tax-break-for-data-center", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "DC BLOX's Rockdale page could not be retrieved and T5's Atlanta IV page was unavailable, so the 154 critical IT MW and 200 MW phase-one figures noted by the dataset are not recorded.", "Microsoft, QTS, Switch, STACK, CoreSite, Digital Realty, Flexential, Aligned, Edged, Vantage, DataBank, Northern Data, Prologis, CyrusOne and Serverfarm pages were not individually read.", "Oracle and Apple disclosures were not checked for Georgia at all.", "Amazon's release gives no site, acreage or capacity for either Georgia county." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Georgia — Google Data Centers", "publisher": "Google", "url": "https://datacenters.google/locations/georgia/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "AWS plans to invest at least $11 billion in Georgia to expand infrastructure to support AI and cloud technologies", "publisher": "Amazon", "url": "https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-investment-georgia-ai-cloud-infrastructure", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Hello, Georgia! — Meta Data Centers", "publisher": "Meta Platforms", "url": "https://datacenters.atmeta.com/2021/03/hello-georgia/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Compute Atlas source URLs were followed only for the Whitfield parcel, the SELC letter, the Clayton and Coweta news items and the operator pages; most of its press links were not yet reviewed directly.", "The dataset notes a QTS Atlanta DC2 building record that is not in this state extract and therefore is not a research lead here.", "No unlicensed directory was used, so Georgia facilities absent from Compute Atlas — smaller colocation sites in particular — are missing." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas — Georgia facility extract, snapshot 71df1457", "publisher": "Compute Atlas (Edward Kubiak)", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No county or city record of any Georgia withdrawal or denial was retrieved; both documented ones rest on news accounts.", "A report that the Temple / Project Bus developer pulled its proposal appears in the dataset's own source list but was never opened, leaving an unverified lead's status in conflict.", "Older Georgia closures, demolitions and acquisitions before 2024 were not searched.", "Newton County and Floyd County data center moratoriums referenced in the dataset's sources were not retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Proposal for Clayton County data center withdrawn", "publisher": "Atlanta News First", "url": "https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/08/07/proposal-clayton-county-data-center-withdrawn/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Project Oak data center denied by commissioners", "publisher": "The Newnan Times-Herald", "url": "https://www.times-herald.com/news/project-oak-data-center-denied-by-commissioners/article_76db6b0a-615b-48e6-aacd-5042bdd0f401.html", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Only one background article was read; the large volume of Georgia data center reporting seen in dataset source lists was not yet reviewed directly.", "Advocacy and research trackers other than the SELC enforcement letter were not consulted." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Where Coweta's five proposed data centers stand", "publisher": "The Newnan Times-Herald", "url": "https://www.times-herald.com/data_center/where-cowetas-five-proposed-data-centers-stand/article_55ee204a-0e00-43e4-9ad1-78c92b679d06.html", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "useful", "coverage_label": "Enough to answer questions", "coverage_summary": "Enough sites and public documents here to look something up and get a real answer.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is still not a list of every data center in the state.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2026-11-17", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "8 published sites here are still being proposed, approved or built, so this state is looked at again 60 days after the recorded evidence check on 2026-09-18.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 90 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-18.", "8 published sites here are still being proposed, approved or built, so this state is looked at again 60 days after the recorded evidence check on 2026-09-18." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 31, "distinct_counties": 7, "multi_source_records": 7 }, { "name": "Hawaii", "abbr": "HI", "region": "West", "slug": "hawaii", "url": "/hawaii/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 0, "facility_count": 1, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-14" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "capitol.hawaii.gov could not be retrieved during review, so SB338's current status, text and final disposition are unverified.", "DBEDT and HTDC incentive award reports were not searched.", "No state certification or recipient list for any data center incentive was located." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Stand. Com. Rep. No. 357 on S.B. No. 338, S.D. 1 (2025)", "publisher": "Hawaii State Legislature", "url": "https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/CommReports/SB338_SD1_SSCR357_.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The PUC Document Management System was unreachable (unavailable during review, then a later request did not respond during review), so no docket filings were full-text searched.", "Hawaiian Electric IGP load forecasts and Kauai Island Utility Cooperative filings were not read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Integrated Grid Planning Docket for Hawaiian Electric (2018-0165)", "publisher": "Hawaii Public Utilities Commission", "url": "https://puc.hawaii.gov/energy/integrated-grid-planning-docket-for-hawaiian-electric-2018-0165/", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Hawaii PUC Document Management System (docket search)", "publisher": "Hawaii Public Utilities Commission", "url": "https://dms.puc.hawaii.gov/dms/", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The DPP snapshot ends 2025-06-30, so the 2026 Servpac Building 2 permits and any 2025-2026 activity are outside it; the successor HNL Build system was not searched.", "Clean Air Branch public notices were not yet reviewed directly, so generator permits were not checked.", "Hawaii, Maui and Kauai county building permit systems were not searched.", "No water withdrawal, discharge or stormwater permit search was run." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Building Permits — January 1, 2005 through June 30, 2025 (dataset 4vab-c87q, SODA API)", "publisher": "Department of Planning and Permitting, City and County of Honolulu", "url": "https://data.honolulu.gov/resource/4vab-c87q.json", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Clean Air Branch home page", "publisher": "Hawaii State Department of Health", "url": "https://health.hawaii.gov/cab/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Hawaii ETS — IT Consent Agenda, reporting period April 10–May 8, 2014", "publisher": "Hawaii Office of Enterprise Technology Services", "url": "https://ets.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/CONSENT_AGENDA_5-15-2014.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The official Bill 170 text, committee report and commission minutes were not retrieved from a Hawaii County system; both sources are newspaper reports.", "Honolulu real property assessment records were not queried to attach owners to TMK 92043005 or TMK 11015013.", "Honolulu DPP zoning and Maui/Kauai planning agendas were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Push to ban data centers continues", "publisher": "West Hawaii Today", "url": "https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2026/09/06/hawaii-news/push-to-ban-data-centers-continues/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Hawaiʻi County Council Forwards Data Center Bill To Planning Commissions", "publisher": "Big Island Video News", "url": "https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2026/07/08/hawai%CA%BBi-county-council-forwards-data-center-bill-to-planning-commissions/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No county-level development agreement, property tax exemption or infrastructure agreement search was run for Honolulu, Hawaii, Maui or Kauai counties.", "No list of enterprise zone certified businesses was located, so any data-adjacent recipient is unknown." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Enterprise Zones (EZ) Partnership Program", "publisher": "Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism", "url": "https://invest.hawaii.gov/business/enterprise-zones/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Hawaii State Procurement Office — Network & Telecom Services, SPO VL Contract No. 23-03", "publisher": "Hawaii State Procurement Office", "url": "https://spo.hawaii.gov/network-telecom-services/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Hyperscaler location pages (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle, Apple) were not checked for Hawaii presence.", "Hawaiian Telcom, Charter/Spectrum, the Maui High Performance Computing Center and other Hawaii operators were not examined.", "Provider presence inside DRFortress and AlohaNAP (cages, PoPs, on-ramps) was not enumerated." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hawaii Office of Enterprise Technology Services — Services-Oriented Infrastructure", "publisher": "Hawaii Office of Enterprise Technology Services", "url": "https://ets.hawaii.gov/services-oriented-infrastructure/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Hawaii ETS — IT Consent Agenda, reporting period April 10–May 8, 2014", "publisher": "Hawaii Office of Enterprise Technology Services", "url": "https://ets.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/CONSENT_AGENDA_5-15-2014.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Directory listings (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, PeeringDB) were not yet reviewed directly, so Hawaii colocation beyond the three named operators is not covered." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for HI (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" }, { "title": "MTP Data Center in Honolulu | Servpac Inc. | 200 Kahelu Ave", "publisher": "Data Center Map", "url": "https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/hawaii/honolulu/mtp-data-center/", "evidence_class": "directory_listing" }, { "title": "AlohaNAP in Kapolei | 1547 Critical Systems Realty (6 MW)", "publisher": "Data Center Map", "url": "https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/hawaii/kapolei/alohanap/", "evidence_class": "directory_listing" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No dedicated Hawaii closure, withdrawal or rename sweep was possible after the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep.", "The cancelled permit jobs were not traced to a named project, so they are not carried as research leads." ], "sources": [ { "title": "1547 and Harrison Street Acquire DRFortress, Hawaii's Leading Carrier-Neutral Data Center", "publisher": "DRFortress", "url": "https://www.drfortress.com/2025/04/03/1547-and-harrison-street-acquire-drfortress-hawaiis-leading-carrier-neutral-data-center/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The Data Center Dynamics article behind the Compute Atlas record is blocked by Cloudflare.", "No systematic Hawaii news sweep for data center announcements was run." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hawaii County proposal to ban AI data centers deferred until October", "publisher": "Honolulu Star-Advertiser", "url": "https://www.staradvertiser.com/2026/09/09/hawaii-news/hawaii-county-proposal-to-ban-ai-data-centers-deferred-until-october/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Hawaii Data Center AlohaNAP Now Fully Operational", "publisher": "Data Center Knowledge", "url": "https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/business/hawaii-data-center-alohanap-now-fully-operational", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-13", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 4, "distinct_counties": 0, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Idaho", "abbr": "ID", "region": "West", "slug": "idaho", "url": "/idaho/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 0, "facility_count": 1, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-11" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No public list of certified or provisional data center exemption recipients was located.", "2025 HB 315 and 2026 data center tax bills were seen only in search results, not read.", "Idaho Tax Commission records were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data Center Sales Tax Exemption program page", "publisher": "Idaho Commerce", "url": "https://commerce.idaho.gov/incentives/data-center-sales-tax-exemption/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The IPC-E-26-25 application itself is posted only as a TIF image and was not yet reviewed directly.", "Confidential exhibits (the Brisbie ESA and its contract demand schedule) are not public, so no utility-request MW figure could be recorded.", "Idaho Power's own release announcing the special contract now cannot be retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Case No. IPC-E-21-42 Application for Approval of Special Contract and Tariff Schedule 33 to Provide Electric Service to Brisbie, LLC's Data Center Facility", "publisher": "Idaho Public Utilities Commission", "url": "https://puc.idaho.gov/Fileroom/PublicFiles/ELEC/IPC/IPCE2142/CaseFiles/20211222Application.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Case No. IPC-E-22-29 Application (Pleasant Valley Solar power purchase agreement for the benefit of Brisbie, LLC)", "publisher": "Idaho Public Utilities Commission", "url": "https://puc.idaho.gov/Fileroom/PublicFiles/ELEC/IPC/IPCE2229/CaseFiles/20221114Application.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Case No. IPC-E-24-01 Application (PVS 2 power purchase agreement for the benefit of Brisbie, LLC)", "publisher": "Idaho Public Utilities Commission", "url": "https://puc.idaho.gov/Fileroom/PublicFiles/ELEC/IPC/IPCE2401/CaseFiles/20240103Application.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The issued P-2022.0030 permit document itself (with generator ratings) was not located; only the public comment notice was read.", "DEQ's issued-permits database and IPDES stormwater notices were not swept.", "No air permit search was possible for the Gemstone or Pocatello proposals." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Request a public comment period on a permit application to modify a permit to construct — Brisbie, LLC (P-2022.0030)", "publisher": "Idaho Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://www2.deq.idaho.gov/admin/LEIA/api/document/download/21478", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Permit Activity Type Report, April 2026, Department of Building Safety", "publisher": "City of Nampa", "url": "https://www.cityofnampa.us/DocumentCenter/View/20607/Monthly-Activity-Report---April-2026", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "kunacity.id.gov refused connections, so no Kuna ordinance, case number or minutes were read for either the Meta site or Gemstone.", "pocatello.gov did not respond during review and www.pocatello.gov refused connections, so the hearing examiner decision and council appeal record were not read.", "No county assessor or GIS parcel records were queried in Ada, Canyon or Bannock counties." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Notice of public hearing before the City of Nampa Planning & Zoning Commission, August 26, 2025", "publisher": "City of Nampa", "url": "https://www.cityofnampa.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-3390", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Data Center Ordinance page (180-day moratorium on data center permit applications)", "publisher": "Bannock County", "url": "https://www.bannockcounty.gov/datacenter/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City Council agenda, February 1, 2022 (archive item 2806)", "publisher": "City of Kuna", "url": "https://kunacity.id.gov/Archive/ViewFile/Item/2806", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Meta's Kuna development, water and sewer agreements were not obtained (city site unreachable).", "No urban renewal or PILOT agreement documents were retrieved, only agenda items.", "Kuna's reported $40 million Diode community contributions were not traced to an agreement document." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Pocatello Development Authority meeting agenda, May 20, 2026", "publisher": "City of Pocatello", "url": "https://pda.pocatello.gov/documents/agendas/2026/052026.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Oracle and Apple location pages were not checked for Idaho.", "ValorC3 and ark data centers operator pages were not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Kuna, we are online!", "publisher": "Meta", "url": "https://datacenters.atmeta.com/2026/09/kuna-we-are-online/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "United States data center locations", "publisher": "Meta", "url": "https://datacenters.atmeta.com/us-locations/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Data center locations", "publisher": "Google", "url": "https://datacenters.google/locations/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Directory listings such as Data Center Map and Baxtel were not used.", "Five tracker leads (ValorC3 Boise 2, ark Boise, FBI Grey Wolf, Deep Atomic INL, Aalo Project Ascension) were not individually examined and so are not research leads." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas extract for Idaho (3 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" }, { "title": "Idaho data center projects tracker", "publisher": "Server Country", "url": "https://servercountry.org/data/states/idaho/", "evidence_class": "advocacy_or_research" }, { "title": "Project record: T5 Data Centers — Nampa", "publisher": "Server Country", "url": "https://servercountry.org/data/projects/t5-data-centers-nampa-id/", "evidence_class": "advocacy_or_research" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The city's written denial decision was not retrievable, so the denial rests on news and an urban renewal agenda.", "Whether Lex Developments filed a further appeal or suit after 2026-07-16 is unresolved.", "No archived-page sweep was done for renamed or closed Idaho facilities." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Pocatello City Council upholds hearing examiner's decision, says \"no\" to proposed AI data center", "publisher": "LocalNews8 (KIFI)", "url": "https://localnews8.com/news/2026/07/16/pocatello-city-council-upholds-hearing-examiners-decision-says-no-to-proposed-ai-data-center/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "City denies $2.6 billion data center, but developer vows to appeal", "publisher": "BoiseDev", "url": "https://boisedev.com/news/2026/07/20/city-denies-2-6-billion-data-center-but-developer-vows-to-appeal/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "BoiseDev and Data Center Dynamics could not be retrieved during review, so three relevant articles were not read.", "A reported second Lex/Portneuf proposal and a Raft River campus discussion could not be verified.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep partway through this state, limiting further discovery." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Another data center in Kuna? City council approves new facility", "publisher": "Idaho Press", "url": "https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/another-data-center-in-kuna-city-council-approves-new-facility/article_f419d684-3934-446a-a910-c06ec0753473.html", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "The Dark Side of Data Centers, Part 3: Outlook for Idaho", "publisher": "Idaho Conservation League", "url": "https://idahoconservation.org/blog/the-dark-side-of-data-centers-part-3-outlook-for-idaho", "evidence_class": "advocacy_or_research" }, { "title": "Idaho Power seeking approval for large-load special contract", "publisher": "Daily Energy Insider", "url": "https://dailyenergyinsider.com/news/33245-idaho-power-seeking-approval-for-large-load-special-contract/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 2, "distinct_counties": 0, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Illinois", "abbr": "IL", "region": "Midwest", "slug": "illinois", "url": "/illinois/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 2, "facility_count": 1, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-17" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The report does not name the single withdrawn or denied applicant, so that lifecycle record could not be turned into a research lead.", "The report gives municipalities only, not street addresses or parcels, except in the five 2025 amendments.", "Tenant exemption certificates (91 issued) are counted but not itemised, so tenants are invisible.", "Earlier annual reports (2022-2024) were not yet reviewed directly, so entities that left the programme between reports were not checked." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data Center Investment Program 2025 Annual Report", "publisher": "Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity", "url": "https://dceo.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/dceo/aboutdceo/reportsrequiredbystatute/2025-data-centers-annual-report.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Data Center Investment Tax Exemptions and Credits - Incentives", "publisher": "Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity", "url": "https://dceo.illinois.gov/expandrelocate/incentives/datacenters.html", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Individual ComEd large-load customer studies and applications are not public in the documents read, so no project-level utility request megawatt figure was obtained for any Illinois research lead.", "Ameren Illinois large-load filings were not searched.", "The e-Docket system was not searched item by item; only the consolidated proposed order was read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "ICC looks to develop consumer protection framework amid increase in large energy demand (press release, 20 March 2026)", "publisher": "Illinois Commerce Commission", "url": "https://icc.illinois.gov/downloads/public/press-release/03.20.26%20Data%20center%20tariff%20investigation.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Proposed Order, consolidated Docket Nos. 25-0677 / 25-0679, Commonwealth Edison Company large demand project tariffs", "publisher": "Illinois Commerce Commission", "url": "https://icc.illinois.gov/docket/P2025-0677/documents/373637/files/654907.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The EJ notification-letter HTML index is still JavaScript-rendered; the JSON table was later opened and is cited only for the Colovore Aurora row.", "Only permits in environmental justice areas of concern generate these letters, so data centres outside such areas are systematically missing from this family.", "No water withdrawal, discharge or stormwater construction permit notices were searched.", "No permits were found or searched for the Channahon, Joliet, DeKalb, Yorkville, Grayslake or Sangamon County sites." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Environmental Justice notification letter, Digital Northlake LLC, FESOP revision (19050026)", "publisher": "Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Justice", "url": "https://epa.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/epa/topics/environmental-justice/documents/notification-letters/2026/Digital%20Northlake%20LLC%20031471AEF%20FESOP%20Revision%2019050026.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Construction Permit - NSPS and NESHAP Source, Hoffman Estates (CHI06 and CHI07) Data Center, Application No. 23110003, I.D. No. 031449ADS", "publisher": "Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Air", "url": "https://epa.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/epa/topics/environmental-justice/documents/ira/ira-analyses/23110003.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Environmental Justice/Title VI Review, CyrusOne CHI6, I.D. No. 043120AEZ, Application No. 24060010", "publisher": "Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Air", "url": "https://epa.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/epa/topics/environmental-justice/documents/ira/ira-analyses/cyrusone-ejtitlevi-review-memo.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "City of Joliet could not be retrieved during review, so the Joliet Technology Center annexation is carried as a dataset-only lead.", "cityofdekalb.com did not respond during review and then refused connections, so the DeKalb development projects list and the Goldframe ordinances were not read.", "elkgrove.org and the Elk Grove Village code library could not be retrieved during review, so no Elk Grove Village ordinance or redevelopment agreement is cited even though the village holds the largest concentration of Illinois data centre incentive recipients.", "No county assessor or GIS parcel portal was queried for any Illinois county, so no parcel identifier appears anywhere in the current research record.", "A Channahon search returned only solar business; no Channahon data centre case was located." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Project Cardinal Data Center Campus (Annex Agreement, Rezone, Preliminary PUD & PUD)", "publisher": "United City of Yorkville", "url": "https://www.yorkville.il.us/906/Project-Cardinal-Data-Center-Campus-Anne", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Project Cardinal Data Center Campus (Annexation Agreement Amendment)", "publisher": "United City of Yorkville", "url": "https://www.yorkville.il.us/941/Project-Cardinal-Data-Center-Campus-Anne", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Development Projects List, 14 January 2026", "publisher": "City of DeKalb", "url": "https://www.cityofdekalb.com/DocumentCenter/View/20271/Development-Projects-List-1-14-26-", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The Elk Grove Village announcement could not be retrieved during review, so no agreement is cited.", "The Yorkville development and utility agreements were listed on the project page but their documents were not yet reviewed directly.", "No PILOT, enterprise zone or property tax abatement instrument was retrieved for any Illinois site." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Microsoft, Oracle, Equinix, Digital Realty, CyrusOne, STACK, Stream, QTS, CoreSite, NTT, EdgeConneX, Iron Mountain, Serverfarm and Prime location pages were not yet reviewed directly, so most incentive recipients have no operator-side address.", "Amazon Web Services, Google and Apple Illinois disclosures were not checked at all.", "No colocation operator inventory was built for Chicago." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Chicago Data Centers", "publisher": "Aligned Data Centers", "url": "https://aligneddc.com/chicago-data-centers/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Meta DeKalb data centre location page", "publisher": "Meta", "url": "https://datacenters.atmeta.com/data-centers/dekalb/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No unlicensed directory such as Data Center Map, Baxtel or datacenters.com was used, so no cross-reference of colocation facility counts was attempted.", "Roughly three quarters of the Compute Atlas Illinois records, mostly operating Chicago-area colocation facilities, were left as unexamined leads because no primary record could be attached to them in the current review." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for Illinois (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The single withdrawn or denied Data Center Investment Program application is unnamed in the report and was not traced.", "No systematic search of denied or expired municipal cases was done; only one withdrawal search was run.", "No closed or demolished Illinois data centre was searched for." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Developer withdraws rezoning request for controversial data center in Hoffman Estates", "publisher": "Capitol News Illinois", "url": "https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/developer-withdraws-rezoning-request-for-controversial-data-center-in-hoffman-estates/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No systematic Illinois news sweep was performed; trade coverage of the Chicago colocation market was not reviewed." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Aligned Launches One Chicago Data Center and Breaks Ground on Another", "publisher": "Data Center Knowledge", "url": "https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/energy-power-supply/aligned-launches-one-chicago-data-center-and-breaks-ground-on-another", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-16", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-17.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-17." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 5, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 3 }, { "name": "Indiana", "abbr": "IN", "region": "Midwest", "slug": "indiana", "url": "/indiana/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 9, "facility_count": 1, "project_discovery_count": 2, "facility_discovery_count": 20, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 22, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Both announcements were found only by following URLs in the Compute Atlas source list. The IEDC newsroom index carries no data center items and the events.in.gov search returns unrelated results, so state announcements for the other Indiana projects could not be enumerated.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for Indiana work, so no keyword search could be run to locate further state announcements, incentive award records or IEDC board resolutions.", "No IEDC incentive agreement, board resolution or transparency-portal record was retrieved, so the exemption terms recorded here come from announcements rather than from an agreement.", "Indiana's data center sales tax exemption certifications are not published in a list that was reachable in the current review." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Gov. Holcomb announces Amazon Web Services plans to invest $11B to create a new data center campus in northern Indiana", "publisher": "Indiana Economic Development Corporation", "url": "https://iedc.in.gov/events/news/details/2024/04/25/gov.-holcomb-announces-amazon-web-services-plans-to-invest-11b-to-create-a-new-data-center-campus-in-northern-indiana", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Gov. Holcomb announces Google is building a $2B data center in northeast Indiana", "publisher": "State of Indiana", "url": "https://events.in.gov/event/gov-holcomb-announces-google-is-building-a-2b-data-center-in-northeast-indiana", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Indiana Economic Development Corporation newsroom index", "publisher": "Indiana Economic Development Corporation", "url": "https://iedc.in.gov/events/news", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The IURC Electronic Document System is a JavaScript Power Pages application that renders no results without scripting, so Indiana cause numbers could not be enumerated and no other docket was identified.", "Only one document from Cause 46394 could be addressed, because document URLs embed per-document SharePoint GUIDs that cannot be derived. AES Indiana's own project-specific testimony in that cause, which would name the customer, was not retrieved.", "No large-load tariff, electric service agreement or interconnection record was read for NIPSCO, Indiana Michigan Power, Duke Energy Indiana, Hoosier Energy, IMPA or any REMC, so the utility side of the AWS New Carlisle, AWS Hobart, AWS Wheatfield, Meta Lebanon, Meta Jeffersonville, Microsoft La Porte and Fluidstack Sullivan County projects is entirely unexamined.", "No MISO or PJM large-load queue record was consulted." ], "sources": [ { "title": "IURC Cause No. 46394 — Indianapolis Power and Light Company d/b/a AES Indiana, Verified Direct Testimony of Robert J. Lee", "publisher": "Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission", "url": "https://iurc.portal.in.gov/_entity/sharepointdocumentlocation/9859d501-903e-f111-88b3-001dd802f839/bb9c6bba-fd52-45ad-8e64-a444aef13c39?file=46394_AESIN_Lee+Direct+Testimony+-+3_042226.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "IURC Electronic Document System advanced case search", "publisher": "Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission", "url": "https://iurc.portal.in.gov/advanced-search/", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "IURC 30-day case search", "publisher": "Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission", "url": "https://iurc.portal.in.gov/search-thirtyday-cases", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Indiana air, water, wetland or stormwater permit number appears anywhere in the current research record, because none of IDEM's permit systems could be queried without using the interactive website.", "The IDEM wetland-impact letter reported to have halted some work at the AWS New Carlisle site was not retrieved and is not recorded as evidence.", "No county or municipal building, grading or generator permit record was retrieved for any Indiana research lead.", "Water withdrawal registrations with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, which would bear on several of these campuses, were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "IDEM Enforcement Actions and Orders database", "publisher": "Indiana Department of Environmental Management", "url": "https://oe.idem.in.gov/idem_oe_order", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "IDEM Air Quality Permit Status Search (CAATS)", "publisher": "Indiana Department of Environmental Management", "url": "https://caats.idem.in.gov/", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "IDEM Virtual File Cabinet", "publisher": "Indiana Department of Environmental Management", "url": "https://vfc.idem.in.gov/cs/idcplg?IdcService=GET_SEARCH_RESULTS&QueryText=Vadata&ftx=1&ResultCount=20&SortField=dInDate&SortOrder=Desc", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Not a single Indiana assessor or parcel record naming a data center owner was obtained. Every Indiana research lead lacks a parcel identifier.", "Marion County's assessor GIS requires authenticated access, so the Sabey, DC BLOX and Metrobloks Indianapolis sites have no parcel evidence.", "Morgan County and St. Joseph County could not be retrieved during review, blocking the Monrovia, New Carlisle and Granger records.", "No plan commission, board of zoning appeals or county council minutes document was retrieved for any Indiana jurisdiction, so every rezoning, approval and denial in the current research record rests on the licensed dataset or on news reports.", "Beacon/Schneider parcel portals, which many Indiana counties use, are interactive and were not attempted." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Parcel Boundaries of Indiana Current — statewide parcel feature service, layer schema", "publisher": "Indiana Geographic Information Office / Indiana Department of Local Government Finance", "url": "https://gisdata.in.gov/server/rest/services/Hosted/Parcel_Boundaries_of_Indiana_Current/FeatureServer/0?f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Parcel Boundaries of Indiana Current — New Carlisle commercial and industrial parcels", "publisher": "Indiana Geographic Information Office / Indiana Department of Local Government Finance", "url": "https://gisdata.in.gov/server/rest/services/Hosted/Parcel_Boundaries_of_Indiana_Current/FeatureServer/0/query?where=UPPER(prop_city)%3D'NEW%20CARLISLE'%20AND%20dlgf_prop_class_code%20LIKE%20'4%25'&outFields=state_parcel_id,parcel_id,prop_add,prop_city,dlgf_prop_class_code,tax_county,tax_township,latitude,longitude&returnGeometry=false&resultRecordCount=25&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Marion County / City of Indianapolis assessor and mapping GIS services", "publisher": "City of Indianapolis / Marion County", "url": "https://xmaps.indy.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Assessor?f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No executed agreement document was retrieved anywhere in Indiana. No economic revitalization area designation, personal-property or real-property tax abatement resolution, CF-1 compliance form, TIF allocation-area ordinance or development agreement was read.", "The Hammond common council records behind the canonical CoreWeave/Digital Crossroads expansion approval and expiration were not reached, which is why that lifecycle conflict is unresolved.", "Indiana's DLGF abatement filings (forms SB-1 and CF-1), which are county-level public records, were not searched.", "The City of Shelbyville permit item refused the connection and did not respond during review on retry." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Meta makes Lebanon data center announcement official", "publisher": "City of Lebanon, Indiana", "url": "https://lebanon.in.gov/2026/02/11/meta-makes-lebanon-data-center-announcement-official/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City of Shelbyville newsflash — data center permit item", "publisher": "City of Shelbyville, Indiana", "url": "https://www.shelbyville.in.gov/m/newsflash/Home/Detail/364", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Without a broad discovery sweep in the current review, operator location pages could not be located by keyword and had to be guessed; the one Sabey URL tried returned unavailable during review.", "No hyperscaler location page (Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft) was read for Indiana, so no operator-stated capacity, square footage or facility designation is recorded for the four largest Indiana operators.", "Colocation operators in the reviewed Indiana facility records — DataBank, Netrality/Indy Telcom, OTAVA, Lifeline, US Signal, Expedient, Cogent, Lumen, DartPoints, 1547, HostColor, Aunalytics and ORI.NET — were not checked at all, so the current research record adds nothing to the canonical colocation coverage." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Digital Crossroad data center", "publisher": "Digital Crossroad", "url": "https://digitalcrossroad.com/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Sabey Data Centers Indiana campus page", "publisher": "Sabey Data Centers", "url": "https://www.sabeydatacenters.com/data-centers/sabey-data-center-campus-indiana", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No unlicensed directory (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, Cloudscene, PeeringDB) was consulted, so provider presence and colocation coverage is absent.", "The extract contains no record for most of the colocation facilities in the reviewed Indiana facility records, so the current research record cannot speak to whether those canonical records are current.", "Compute Atlas source URLs that were not followed include most of the press items; only the government-hosted ones and three news or advocacy items were opened." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for Indiana (33 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No primary record of any Indiana cancellation, denial or withdrawal was obtained. The Clinton County and Hancock County records are news reports, and the county sites behind them were not reached.", "No rezoning case number, ordinance number or resolution number is recorded for any Indiana lifecycle event, because none appeared in a source that could be read.", "No corporate filing or Secretary of State record was used, so the entity names Logix Reality LLC, Surge Development LLC, Jumping Bison LLC and QLEVR LLC are recorded only as the dataset and press reported them.", "Renames and acquisitions in Indiana's colocation market (for example the DataBank and Lifeline histories behind the reviewed Indiana records) were not searched at all.", "Archived versions of operator and municipal pages were not consulted." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Commissioners say no to the rezoning of land for data center", "publisher": "Clinton County Today", "url": "https://www.clintoncountytoday.com/commissioners-say-no-to-the-rezoning-of-land-for-data-center/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Developer pulls application to build data center in Hancock County", "publisher": "WIBC", "url": "https://wibc.com/623821/developer-pulls-application-to-build-data-center-in-hancock-county/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for Indiana work, so no news sweep was possible and every news item in the current research record was reached through a URL in the Compute Atlas source list.", "Local reporting on the Hobart, Wheatfield, Michigan City, Granger, Merom, Pittsboro, Merrillville and Bristol proposals was not read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "IURC must prioritize public interest in AES Indiana data center proposal", "publisher": "Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana", "url": "https://www.citact.org/news/iurc-must-prioritize-public-interest-aes-indiana-data-center-proposal", "evidence_class": "advocacy_or_research" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "useful", "coverage_label": "Enough to answer questions", "coverage_summary": "Enough sites and public documents here to look something up and get a real answer.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is still not a list of every data center in the state.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2026-10-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "9 published readings here are contradicted or out of date, so this state is looked at again 30 days after the recorded claim check on 2026-09-12.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 90 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-12.", "9 published readings here are contradicted or out of date, so this state is looked at again 30 days after the recorded claim check on 2026-09-12.", "7 published sites here are still being proposed, approved or built, so this state is looked at again 60 days after the recorded evidence check on 2026-09-12." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 29, "distinct_counties": 7, "multi_source_records": 7 }, { "name": "Iowa", "abbr": "IA", "region": "Midwest", "slug": "iowa", "url": "/iowa/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 0, "facility_count": 1, "project_discovery_count": 1, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 1, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "IEDA board minutes and award database not yet reviewed directly; the March 2024 IEDA board action on the Cedar Rapids / Google local property tax exemption was seen only in search results.", "No Department of Revenue register of registered data center businesses is published, so certified recipients could not be enumerated." ], "sources": [ { "title": "City of Cedar Rapids news release: Data Center Project Update (Google / Heaviside, LLC)", "publisher": "City of Cedar Rapids", "url": "https://www.cedar-rapids.org/news_detail_T6_R2077.php", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Data Center Sales and Use Tax Incentives", "publisher": "Iowa Department of Revenue", "url": "https://revenue.iowa.gov/taxes/tax-guidance/sales-use-excise-tax/data-centers", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "IUC Electronic Filing System (efs.iowa.gov) is a single-page application; docket TF-2025-0047 and TF-2025-0007 filings and orders were not read.", "MidAmerican Energy large-load contracts are treated as confidential in IUC filings according to search results; no MidAmerican data center docket was located.", "No Iowa RTO or utility interconnection queue record naming a data center was retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Iowa Utilities Commission Electronic Filing System, docket TF-2025-0047", "publisher": "Iowa Utilities Commission", "url": "https://efs.iowa.gov/efs/ShowDocketDetails.do?docketNumber=TF-2025-0047", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Utility Tariffs Filed with the IUC", "publisher": "Iowa Utilities Commission", "url": "https://iuc.iowa.gov/records-documents/utility-tariffs-filed-iuc", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The DNR construction permit search serves permit rows only through interactive per-city queries, so generator construction permits for Google, Meta, QTS, Apple and colocation sites were not retrieved.", "Water withdrawal, wastewater and stormwater construction general permit notices were not searched at all.", "The Iowa EASY Air public inquiry portal was not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Iowa DNR Title V Operating Permit 24-TV-005, Willow Creek / Ginger East Data Centers", "publisher": "Iowa Department of Natural Resources", "url": "https://www.iowadnr.gov/media/7168/download?inline", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Iowa DNR Title V Operating Permit 24-TV-004, Osmium Data Center", "publisher": "Iowa Department of Natural Resources", "url": "https://www.iowadnr.gov/media/6245/download?inline", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Iowa DNR Title V Operating Permit 26-TV-003, Ginger West Data Center – 11100 Booneville Rd", "publisher": "Iowa Department of Natural Resources", "url": "https://www.iowadnr.gov/media/9555/download?inline", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "City of West Des Moines could not be retrieved during review, so no West Des Moines site plan, rezoning or development-agreement record was read.", "Council Bluffs uses a NovusAGENDA postback search, so Resolution 25-224 and the Google and CyrusOne records were not read.", "No county assessor or GIS parcel record was opened for any Iowa research lead, so every research lead lacks a parcel identifier.", "The Hancock County zoning case file and Planning & Zoning Commission minutes for the MCNI rezoning were not located." ], "sources": [ { "title": "City of Altoona Council Meeting Minutes, Monday, October 6, 2025", "publisher": "City of Altoona", "url": "https://cms2.revize.com/revize/altoona/Government/agendas_minutes/city%20council/2025/10-06-2025%20Council%20Minutes.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Linn County News Flash: Linn County Responds to Google’s Decision to Bypass County Protections", "publisher": "Linn County, Iowa", "url": "https://www.linncountyiowa.gov/m/newsflash/Home/Detail/4345?arc=7847", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City of Council Bluffs NovusAGENDA public meeting portal", "publisher": "City of Council Bluffs", "url": "https://councilbluffs.novusagenda.com/agendapublic/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The executed QTS and Google development agreements themselves, and the December 2025 amended QTS agreement, were not retrieved.", "The City of Council Bluffs urban renewal page could not be retrieved during review, and no Iowa annual urban renewal report was opened.", "No Chapter 427B or data center property tax exemption filing was retrieved for any research lead." ], "sources": [ { "title": "City of Cedar Rapids news release: City of Cedar Rapids, Alliant Energy, and QTS Collaborate on New Data Center Campus in Cedar Rapids", "publisher": "City of Cedar Rapids", "url": "https://www.cedar-rapids.org/news_detail_T6_R2180.php", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Urban Renewal and Urban Revitalization, City of Council Bluffs", "publisher": "City of Council Bluffs", "url": "https://www.councilbluffs-ia.gov/2551/Urban-Renewal-and-Urban-Revitalization", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Oracle, QTS, Tract, Edged, CyrusOne, LightEdge and Aureon location pages were not yet reviewed directly.", "No operator sustainability or investor material other than Alliant Energy's slides was read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Google Data Centers – Iowa location page", "publisher": "Google", "url": "https://datacenters.google/locations/council-bluffs-iowa/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Smaller Iowa colocation and edge leads in the extract (Aureon 616, Cologix DSM1 and DSM2, Ark Data Centers Marion, InfoBunker, ITS Monticello, TierPoint Newton, US Signal IA01, Bluebird Quad Cities, Fidium, South Front Networks, Oppidan Des Moines, LightEdge Ames, Edged Ankeny, PathOne Hull) were read in the extract but not worked up into research leads.", "No directory listing (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com) was opened." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for Iowa (59 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No county or city record of the Hancock County denial was retrieved; only news reporting.", "Archived pages, renames and acquisitions of Iowa colocation operators (for example Involta to Ark Data Centers) were not researched.", "Search results referenced a Linn County 18-month moratorium on new large-scale data center rezonings effective 2026-07-01; the ordinance was not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Radio Iowa: Northern Iowa county panel becomes latest to reject call for data center", "publisher": "Radio Iowa", "url": "https://www.radioiowa.com/2026/09/10/northern-iowa-county-panel-becomes-latest-to-reject-call-for-data-center/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Most news leads surfaced in search results (Business Record, The Gazette, Corridor Business, Iowa Public Radio, Inside Climate News) were not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Business Record: Site plan approved for Microsoft’s third building at Osmium data center", "publisher": "Business Record", "url": "https://www.businessrecord.com/site-plan-approved-for-microsofts-third-building-at-osmium-data-center/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "3 News Now: Council Bluffs ‘Project Lola’ data center reduced in size, still planned near Iowa Western", "publisher": "3 News Now (KMTV)", "url": "https://www.3newsnow.com/council-bluffs/council-bluffs-project-lola-data-center-reduced-in-size-still-planned-near-iowa-western", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 2, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Kansas", "abbr": "KS", "region": "Midwest", "slug": "kansas", "url": "/kansas/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-11" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No public list of SB 98 certifications found; Commerce press releases not swept.", "Whether the De Soto campus holds SB 98 certification is not established." ], "sources": [ { "title": "SB 98 Data Center Sales Tax Exemption program page", "publisher": "Kansas Department of Commerce", "url": "https://www.kansascommerce.gov/program/business-incentives-and-services/sb-98-data-center-sales-tax-exemption/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Notice 25-03 Sales Tax Exemption for Data Centers", "publisher": "Kansas Department of Revenue", "url": "https://www.ksrevenue.gov/taxnotices/notice25-03.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "KCC docket filings (LLPS service agreements, special contracts) not searched in the KCC e-filing system.", "Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (municipal, not KCC-regulated) large-load records not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "News Release 11-6-25: KCC approves large load rate plan with consumer protections", "publisher": "Kansas Corporation Commission", "url": "https://www.kcc.ks.gov/news-11-6-25", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "CURB News, fourth quarter 2025 (KCC Approves Large Load Rate Plan for Evergy)", "publisher": "Citizens' Utility Ratepayer Board", "url": "https://curb.kansas.gov/curb_news/CURB_News_25Q4.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "KDHE KEIMS permit database (interactive) not searched.", "Stormwater construction permits and city building/grading permits not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "KDHE Public Notices page", "publisher": "Kansas Department of Health and Environment", "url": "https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/413/Public-Notices", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "City of De Soto and Butler County sites did not respond during review and refused connections.", "Unified Government ordinances and minutes for Red Wolf not read.", "Edgerton, Leavenworth County and Jefferson County planning records not located.", "Assessor records outside Wyandotte County not queried." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data Centers | De Soto, KS (Data Center Campus Project page)", "publisher": "City of De Soto", "url": "https://www.desotoks.us/465/Data-Center-Campus-Project", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Data Centers | Butler County, KS", "publisher": "Butler County", "url": "https://www.bucoks.gov/972/Data-Centers", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Wyandotte County GIS parcel layer query, PARCEL='957402'", "publisher": "Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas", "url": "https://gisweb.wycokck.org/arcgis/rest/services/GISPUB/UGMAPS_4_V02/MapServer/0/query?where=PARCEL%3D%27957402%27&outFields=*&returnGeometry=false&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "De Soto development agreement and IRB resolution not read (city site unreachable).", "Kansas Board of Tax Appeals IRB exemption orders not searched.", "Quindaro option purchase agreement not located." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "AWS, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle and Apple location pages were not retrieved individually.", "Colocation operators other than TierPoint not checked." ], "sources": [ { "title": "De Soto, KS - Beale Infrastructure", "publisher": "Beale Infrastructure", "url": "https://bealeinfra.com/de-soto-kansas/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Gardner, Kansas project page - Beale Infrastructure", "publisher": "Beale Infrastructure", "url": "https://bealeinfra.com/gardner-kansas/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "PowerTransitions Announces Plans to Develop $2.4 Billion, 200 MW Data Center Campus on Former Fossil Fuel Plant site in Kansas City, Kansas", "publisher": "PowerTransitions", "url": "https://www.power-transitions.com/powertransitions-announces-plans-to-develop-2-4-billion-200-mw-data-center-campus-on-former-fossil-fuel-plant-site-in-kansas-city-kansas/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No commercial directories consulted." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas extract records for KS (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Jefferson County conditional use permit file for the McLouth withdrawal not located.", "No sweep of closed or renamed Kansas colocation facilities." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Beale Infrastructure withdraws proposed data center project application", "publisher": "City of Gardner", "url": "https://www.gardnerkansas.gov/news_detail_T17_R72.php", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for this state, so no further news sweep was possible." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Residents fight back as data center developers chase Kansas tax incentives", "publisher": "KSHB 41 (Scripps)", "url": "https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/residents-fight-back-as-data-center-developers-chase-kansas-tax-incentives", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Lawsuit delays $12 billion Kansas City, Kansas, data center after community concerns", "publisher": "KCUR", "url": "https://www.kcur.org/environment-agriculture/2025-11-09/data-center-kansas-city-wyandotte-county", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Hyperscale data center proposed in Tonganoxie, county commissioners discuss project with developer", "publisher": "KSHB 41 (Scripps)", "url": "https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/kansas/leavenworth-county/hyperscale-data-center-proposed-in-tonganoxie-county-commissioners-discuss-project-with-developer", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 2, "distinct_counties": 0, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Kentucky", "abbr": "KY", "region": "South", "slug": "kentucky", "url": "/kentucky/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-11" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No KEDFA incentive agreements or approval minutes retrieved.", "Kentucky's state data center sales and use tax incentive program was not verified against a statute or revenue department page.", "Local industrial development authority announcements not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Energy Department Announces Partnership to Expand Reliable, Affordable Energy Access and Power America's AI Future in Western Kentucky", "publisher": "U.S. Department of Energy", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-partnership-expand-reliable-affordable-energy-access-and-power", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Newsroom", "publisher": "Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development", "url": "https://ced.ky.gov/Newsroom", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "KEDFA Meeting News", "publisher": "Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development", "url": "https://ced.ky.gov/Newsroom/KEDFAMeetingNews", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "LG&E/KU, Kentucky Power and EKPC large-load or data center tariff filings not identified.", "No PSC filing found or searched for the Paducah campus, the Louisville, Carrollton, Franklin, Burgin or Muskie projects.", "PSC orders in the two rate cases not read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Big Rivers Electric Corporation cover letter: Justified DataPower LLC/TeraWulf Inc. Retail Electric Service Agreement", "publisher": "Kentucky Public Service Commission", "url": "https://psc.ky.gov/trf4/uploadedFiles/900_Big_Rivers_Electric_Corporation/04142026121035/Cover_Letter_Redacted.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Case 2025-00257: Electronic application of Kentucky Power Company for a general adjustment of rates, approval of tariffs and riders", "publisher": "Kentucky Public Service Commission", "url": "https://psc.ky.gov/Case/ViewCaseFilings/2025-00257", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Case 2025-00208: Electronic application of East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc. for a general adjustment of rates", "publisher": "Kentucky Public Service Commission", "url": "https://psc.ky.gov/Case/ViewCaseFilings/2025-00208", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No air permits for TeraWulf Hawesville, the Paducah campus or the Louisville project.", "No stormwater or construction permits checked.", "Corps of Engineers notices not searched for Kentucky." ], "sources": [ { "title": "eSearch: Agency Interest and Issued Approvals", "publisher": "Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, Department for Environmental Protection", "url": "https://dep.gateway.ky.gov/eSearch/AgencyInterest", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Mercer, Carroll, Simpson, Oldham, Hancock and McCracken county planning and zoning dockets not reached.", "No property valuation administrator or GIS parcel lookups for any research lead.", "Louisville's development plan case for the Camp Ground Road site was not located by name or address." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Louisville Metro legislative records (Legistar API): matters whose title contains 'data center', introduced since 2025", "publisher": "Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government", "url": "https://webapi.legistar.com/v1/louisville/matters", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Louisville Metro legislative records (Legistar API): matters whose title contains 'Camp Ground'", "publisher": "Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government", "url": "https://webapi.legistar.com/v1/louisville/matters", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "County and city industrial revenue bond records for Hancock, Carroll, Simpson and McCracken counties not searched.", "No Kentucky Business Investment or KEDFA agreement documents retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Louisville Metro legislative records (Legistar API): industrial revenue bond matters since June 2024", "publisher": "Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government", "url": "https://webapi.legistar.com/v1/louisville/matters", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "AWS, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle and Apple disclosures not checked for Kentucky.", "Flexential facility details (space, power) unread because the pages are blocked.", "Brookfield and Panattoni project pages not located." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Large-scale data center coming to Louisville", "publisher": "PowerHouse Data Centers", "url": "https://www.powerhousedata.com/news/developers-unveil-plans-for-large-tech-data-center-in-louisville", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "TeraWulf Announces Anthropic Lease at Justified Data Campus and Sale of Majority Interest in Abernathy Joint Venture to Fluidstack", "publisher": "TeraWulf Inc.", "url": "https://investors.terawulf.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/142/terawulf-announces-anthropic-lease-at-justified-data-campus-and-sale-of-majority-interest-in-abernathy-joint-venture-to-fluidstack", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "TeraWulf Expands Infrastructure Platform with Acquisition of 1+ GW Eastern Kentucky HPC Campus", "publisher": "TeraWulf Inc.", "url": "https://investors.terawulf.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/141/terawulf-expands-infrastructure-platform-with-acquisition-of-1-gw-eastern-kentucky-hpc-campus", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Directory listings (Data Center Map, Baxtel) cited inside Compute Atlas records were not used." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas facilities snapshot: Kentucky records", "publisher": "Compute Atlas (Edward Kubiak)", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Final disposition of the relocated DW Griffith Lane proposal is undocumented.", "No archived operator pages, renames or closed Kentucky data centers researched.", "LPM's topic index is script-rendered, so later withdrawal coverage may have been missed." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Oldham County data center switches sites, reduces size amid local resistance", "publisher": "Louisville Public Media", "url": "https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-06-03/oldham-county-data-center-switches-sites-reduces-size-amid-local-resistance", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Oldham County passes sweeping data center moratorium, executive fired over recording", "publisher": "Louisville Public Media", "url": "https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-07-02/oldham-county-passes-sweeping-data-center-moratorium-executive-fired-over-recording", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "$6 billion OC Data Center planned on Highway 53", "publisher": "The Oldham Era", "url": "https://www.pmg-ky1.com/oldham_era/news/6-billion-oc-data-center-planned-on-highway-53/article_af7b318a-fb9e-58fb-9b6f-c86c63b14f4d.html", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Coverage was reached only through URLs cited in the Compute Atlas extract and links inside those articles, because the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep." ], "sources": [ { "title": "West Louisville data center approved despite opposition", "publisher": "Louisville Public Media", "url": "https://www.lpm.org/news/2026-03-05/west-louisville-data-center-approved-despite-opposition", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Carroll County residents push back against data center project in Ghent community", "publisher": "WAVE (WDRB/WAVE)", "url": "https://www.wdrbwave.com/2026/07/25/carroll-county-residents-push-back-against-data-center-project-ghent-community/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Neighbors to Kentucky hyperscale data centers demand transparency", "publisher": "Louisville Public Media", "url": "https://www.lpm.org/news/2026-08-24/neighbors-to-kentucky-hyperscale-data-centers-demand-transparency", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 1, "distinct_counties": 0, "multi_source_records": 0 }, { "name": "Louisiana", "abbr": "LA", "region": "South", "slug": "louisiana", "url": "/louisiana/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 2, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "LED publishes no list of entities certified as approved data centers under Act 730, so the certified-recipient roster could not be enumerated.", "Louisiana Department of Revenue direct-payment-number issuances under R.S. 47:303.1(B)(5) were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Central Louisiana Secures $3.6 Billion Applied Digital AI Factory Campus", "publisher": "Louisiana Economic Development", "url": "https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/central-louisiana-secures-3-6-billion-applied-digital-ai-factory-campus", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Amazon Selects Louisiana for $12 Billion Data Center Campuses in Major U.S. Expansion", "publisher": "Louisiana Economic Development", "url": "https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/amazon-selects-louisiana-for-12-billion-data-center-campuses-in-major-u-s-expansion", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Amazon Grows Northwest Louisiana Planned Investment to $18 Billion With New Shreveport Campus", "publisher": "Louisiana Economic Development", "url": "https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/amazon-grows-northwest-louisiana-planned-investment-to-18-billion-with-new-shreveport-campus", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The LPSC public file viewer is fileId-addressed and was reached only through search-result links; the docket index for U-37425 and U-37882 was not browsed, so most filings in both dockets are unread.", "One LPSC filing could not be retrieved because the response was too large to retrieve in the current review.", "No large-load tariff or electric service agreement text was read; the ESA in U-37425 is referenced but not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "LPSC Order Number U-37425, Entergy Louisiana, LLC, ex parte — Application for approval of generation and transmission resources in connection with service to a single customer for a project in North Louisiana", "publisher": "Louisiana Public Service Commission", "url": "https://lpscpubvalence.lpsc.louisiana.gov/portal/PSC/ViewFile?fileId=nDWn/juc2+A%3D", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "LPSC Order Number U-37882, Entergy Louisiana, LLC, ex parte — Application for certification of generation and transmission resources and for other relief", "publisher": "Louisiana Public Service Commission", "url": "https://lpscpubvalence.lpsc.louisiana.gov/portal/PSC/ViewFile?fileId=vuPR4bwXjsw%3D", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Direct Testimony of Phillip R. May on behalf of Entergy Louisiana, LLC, Public Redacted Version, LPSC Docket No. U-37882 (filed as Docket No. U-____)", "publisher": "Louisiana Public Service Commission", "url": "https://lpscpubvalence.lpsc.louisiana.gov/portal/PSC/ViewFile?fileId=tDDeNhUDZ+w%3D", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "LDEQ EDMS full-text search is an interactive portal and was not queried, so air, water and stormwater permits held for the data center campuses themselves were not reached.", "No permit number, Agency Interest number or activity number was obtained for any Louisiana data center or for Franklin Farms Power Station.", "Parish-level building, grading and floodplain permits were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "LDEQ Public Notices (current draft and final permit notices)", "publisher": "Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://www.deq.louisiana.gov/public-notices", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "LDEQ public hearing notice: Entergy Louisiana, LLC - Franklin Farms Power Station", "publisher": "Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://www.deq.louisiana.gov/calendar/detail/369/538", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Caddo Parish, Richland Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Rapides Parish and City of Shreveport planning and zoning case files were not reached.", "No parish assessor or GIS parcel record was queried, so no parcel ID in the current research record is verbatim from an assessor.", "The Bossier Parish record gives no plat, case or ordinance number, so record_identifier is null for that evidence." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Police Jury Awards Major Infrastructure Contracts, Approves Final Plat for Amazon Data Center Technology Park", "publisher": "Bossier Parish Police Jury", "url": "https://www.bossierparishla.gov/news/2026/03/20/police-jury-awards-major-infrastructure-contracts--approves-final-plat-for-amazon-data-center-technology-park", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No executed PILOT, cooperative endeavour or development agreement was located or read for any Louisiana data center.", "Louisiana's Industrial Tax Exemption Program contracts are filed through FastLane NextGen and the Board of Commerce and Industry agendas were not yet reviewed directly.", "Hut 8's reported $16 million water infrastructure agreement with West Feliciana Parish was not confirmed against a parish record." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Act No. 730, 2024 Regular Session (House Bill No. 827) — enrolled, data center sales and use tax rebate", "publisher": "Louisiana State Legislature", "url": "https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382756", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Industrial Tax Exemption — Incentives", "publisher": "Louisiana Economic Development", "url": "https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/incentive/industrial-tax-exemption", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Amazon Web Services, Meta, Applied Digital and STACK Infrastructure location or newsroom pages were not yet reviewed directly individually; their facts here come from Louisiana Economic Development announcements instead.", "Colocation operator pages (DartPoints, EdgeConneX, Cogent, Fogo) were not yet reviewed directly; those research leads rest on the Compute Atlas extract." ], "sources": [ { "title": "River Bend — Hut 8 data center campus page", "publisher": "Hut 8 Corp.", "url": "https://www.hut8.com/data-centers/river-bend", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No commercial directory (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, Cloudscene, PeeringDB) was consulted, so colocation coverage rests on one dataset." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas Louisiana extract (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas (Edward Kubiak)", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No city zoning or permit file was found for the withdrawn New Orleans East application, so the withdrawal is uncorroborated by a primary record.", "No statewide sweep for closed, demolished or renamed Louisiana data centers was performed.", "The text of the adopted interim zoning district and any extension of it were not read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "New Orleans City Council Approves Motions to Study Data Center Zoning and Temporary Restrictions", "publisher": "New Orleans City Council", "url": "https://council.nola.gov/news/january-2026/new-orleans-city-council-approves-motions-to-study/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No systematic news sweep was performed for Louisiana data center announcements outside the projects already covered." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Council bans data centers for a year after citizen concerns", "publisher": "Verite News", "url": "https://veritenews.org/2026/01/28/data-centers-ban-new-orleans-council/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-18", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-19.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-19." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 5, "distinct_counties": 2, "multi_source_records": 2 }, { "name": "Maine", "abbr": "ME", "region": "Northeast", "slug": "maine", "url": "/maine/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 0, "facility_count": 1, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Pine Tree Development Zone certification list or TIF district register was opened.", "Maine Revenue Services sales and use tax exemption material was not consulted.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for this state, so the incentive audit was limited to pages reachable by exact URL." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Maine Department of Economic and Community Development", "publisher": "Maine Department of Economic and Community Development", "url": "https://www.maine.gov/decd/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The open-case grid was not paged beyond the first 20 records.", "No case-title or full-text search of Maine PUC cases was actually executed.", "No Versant Power or Central Maine Power large-load tariff, ESA or interconnection record was consulted, and ISO New England queue material was not checked." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Maine PUC Case Management System – All Open Cases list", "publisher": "Maine Public Utilities Commission", "url": "https://mpuc-cms.maine.gov/CQM.Public.WebUI/Common/AdvanceSearch.aspx?MC=1&FRM=0&OPN=OPN&Ext=true", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Maine PUC Case Management System – Advanced Search for Cases or Documents", "publisher": "Maine Public Utilities Commission", "url": "https://mpuc-cms.maine.gov/CQM.Public.WebUI/Common/AdvanceSearch.aspx?MC=1&FRM=0&Ext=true", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Maine DEP air, site location, stormwater or natural resources permit was opened for any of the three leads.", "The Compute Atlas note that no permits were issued for the Jay project was not verified against a DEP or town permit record.", "Municipal building and site plan permits were not reachable for Jay, Wiscasset or Limestone." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Maine DEP public file archive – air licence directories (ch115, ch171, Title V)", "publisher": "Maine Department of Environmental Protection", "url": "https://www.maine.gov/dep/ftp/AIR/licenses/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Site Location of Development, Land Resources – Maine DEP", "publisher": "Maine Department of Environmental Protection", "url": "https://www.maine.gov/dep/land/sitelaw/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The Maine statewide parcel layer has no owner or assessor attributes, so no Maine research lead could be tied to a parcel.", "Wiscasset and Limestone town sites could not be searched (JavaScript widget and no index respectively); no planning board or selectboard minute was read for any Maine site.", "Jay select board agendas and minutes archives were not paged back to the 2025 warrant that reportedly backed the data center plan." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Maine Parcels Organized Towns – Wiscasset, Old Ferry Road parcels", "publisher": "Maine Office of GIS / Maine GeoLibrary", "url": "https://services1.arcgis.com/RbMX0mRVOFNTdLzd/arcgis/rest/services/Maine_Parcels_Organized_Towns/FeatureServer/10/query?where=UPPER%28TOWN%29%3D%27WISCASSET%27+AND+UPPER%28PROP_LOC%29+LIKE+%27%25OLD+FERRY%25%27&outFields=TOWN%2CCOUNTY%2CGEOCODE%2CSTATE_ID%2CMAP_BK_LOT%2CPROP_LOC%2CPROPLOCNUM%2CTYPE&returnGeometry=false&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Maine Parcels Organized Towns – Jay, Riley Road parcels", "publisher": "Maine Office of GIS / Maine GeoLibrary", "url": "https://services1.arcgis.com/RbMX0mRVOFNTdLzd/arcgis/rest/services/Maine_Parcels_Organized_Towns/FeatureServer/10/query?where=UPPER%28TOWN%29%3D%27JAY%27+AND+UPPER%28PROP_LOC%29+LIKE+%27%25RILEY%25%27&outFields=TOWN%2CCOUNTY%2CGEOCODE%2CSTATE_ID%2CMAP_BK_LOT%2CPROP_LOC%2CPROPLOCNUM%2CTYPE&returnGeometry=false&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Maine Parcels Organized Towns – Limestone, Loring Commerce Road parcels", "publisher": "Maine Office of GIS / Maine GeoLibrary", "url": "https://services1.arcgis.com/RbMX0mRVOFNTdLzd/arcgis/rest/services/Maine_Parcels_Organized_Towns/FeatureServer/10/query?where=UPPER%28TOWN%29%3D%27LIMESTONE%27+AND+UPPER%28PROP_LOC%29+LIKE+%27%25LORING%25%27&outFields=TOWN%2CCOUNTY%2CGEOCODE%2CSTATE_ID%2CMAP_BK_LOT%2CPROP_LOC%2CPROPLOCNUM%2CTYPE&returnGeometry=false&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The 2025 Jay town meeting warrant that reportedly backed the data center plan was not located; only the current warrant page is published.", "No Wiscasset option agreement, ARPA award document or Lincoln County commissioners' record was read.", "The executed Eternal Mind lease, its commencement and expiration dates, amendments and current performance were not available." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Town of Jay – Public Hearing Notice for the November 3, 2026 Town Meeting Warrant", "publisher": "Town of Jay, Maine", "url": "https://www.jay-maine.org/warrant-for-town-meeting/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Town of Wiscasset website", "publisher": "Town of Wiscasset, Maine", "url": "https://www.wiscasset.org/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Loring Development Authority of Maine Board Meeting Minutes — June 21, 2023", "publisher": "Loring Development Authority of Maine", "url": "https://loringcommercecentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/LDA-of-Maine-June-21-2023-Minutes.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "LiquidCool Solutions', Green 4 Maine's and Sentinel Data Centers' own websites were not yet reviewed directly; no exact source retrieved here establishes their current roles.", "No current Eternal Mind occupancy, operation, lease-performance or termination record was found.", "Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle and Apple were not checked for Maine sites; none appears in any source opened here.", "No colocation operator with a Maine presence was identified." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Loring Development Authority of Maine 2023 Annual Report", "publisher": "Loring Development Authority of Maine / Maine Legislature", "url": "https://legislature.maine.gov/doc/10592", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Loring Development Authority of Maine 2024 Annual Report", "publisher": "Loring Development Authority of Maine / Maine Legislature", "url": "https://legislature.maine.gov/doc/12569", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Directory listings (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, PeeringDB) were not consulted for Maine.", "No cross-check was made against other trackers." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas facilities.json snapshot 71df145 – Maine extract (3 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No LD number, bill text, committee report or veto message was retrieved for the reported Maine data center moratorium.", "The Jay cancellation is evidenced only by the licensed dataset; no town or company document confirming it was read.", "No archived or historical sweep was made for older Maine data centers." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Maine Legislature bill search (LawMakerWeb / search_ps.asp)", "publisher": "Maine State Legislature", "url": "https://legislature.maine.gov/bills/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "not_searched", "gaps": [ "The Bangor Daily News, Maine Monitor, Central Maine, Maine Morning Star, News Center Maine and Site Selection articles the licensed dataset cites were not retrieved." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-13", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 3, "distinct_counties": 0, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Maryland", "abbr": "MD", "region": "South", "slug": "maryland", "url": "/maryland/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No published register of exemption certificate holders was found; a public records request would be needed.", "County-level economic development announcements for Charles, Calvert and Baltimore counties were not swept." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data Center Maryland Sales and Use Tax Exemption Incentive Program", "publisher": "Maryland Department of Commerce", "url": "https://commerce.maryland.gov/fund/data-center-maryland-sales-and-use-tax-exemption-incentive-program", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Maryland PSC DMS is behind a Cloudflare interstitial that could not be retrieved during review; no docket filing, tariff or electric service agreement was read.", "FERC docket EC26-58-000 on the TeraWulf Morgantown purchase was not retrieved from FERC itself; only a news-hosted copy was visible in search results.", "Potomac Edison large-load or special-contract filings were not reached." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Projects Under Review — Maryland Power Plant Research Program", "publisher": "Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Power Plant Research Program", "url": "https://dnr.maryland.gov/pprp/pages/projects-under-review.aspx", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The issued permits themselves (as opposed to the applications and the news release) were not downloaded; no permit number is quoted anywhere in the records I read.", "Aligned Data Centers' own final air permit and determination, listed on the MDE page, were not yet reviewed directly.", "Stormwater construction general permit notices were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Permit to Construct Application for Emergency Generators — Amazon Data Services, Inc. BWI-150, BWI-151, BWI-152 and BWI-153 Data Centers", "publisher": "Maryland Department of the Environment, Air and Radiation Administration", "url": "https://mde.maryland.gov/programs/permits/AirManagementPermits/Documents/Public-Review/Alt%20NSPS/FINAL_BWI150_Air_Permit_Application_(signed).pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Permit to Construct Application for Emergency Generators — Amazon Data Services, Inc. IAD-534, IAD-535, IAD-536 and IAD-537 Data Centers", "publisher": "Maryland Department of the Environment, Air and Radiation Administration", "url": "https://mde.maryland.gov/programs/permits/AirManagementPermits/Documents/Public-Review/Alt%20NSPS/Final_IAD534%20Air%20Permit%20to%20Construct%20Application_Signed.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Maryland Department of Environment Approves Air Permit for Frederick Data Center", "publisher": "Maryland Department of the Environment", "url": "https://news.maryland.gov/mde/2026/03/25/maryland-department-of-environment-approves-air-permit-for-frederick-data-center/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Frederick County web host refuses all connections (unavailable during review; a later request did not respond during review), so the Planning Commission agendas and minutes approving Bauxite I, II and III were not read.", "Calvert County web host times out, so the AWS withdrawal notice and moratorium ordinance were not read.", "Baltimore County site could not be retrieved during review, so nothing was obtained for the Woodlawn proposal.", "Maryland SDAT real property search could not be retrieved during review; no assessor parcel record was retrieved for any research lead.", "No Prince George's County case number was obtained for Brightseat Tech Park." ], "sources": [ { "title": "CU 24-13(a)(A), Atmosphere Dickerson Property Owner, LLC (Conditional Use Holder: Terra Energy, LLC) — Amendment (Major Modification)", "publisher": "Montgomery County Office of Zoning and Administrative Hearings", "url": "https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/office-zoning-administrative-hearings/hearings/cu-24-13aa-atmosphere-dickerson-property-owner-llc-conditional-use-holder-terra-energy-llc-amendment-major-modification", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Development Review Applications — Process Monitoring, Cases Accepted or Approved Between 4/7/2025 and 4/13/2025", "publisher": "Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Prince George's County Planning Department", "url": "https://pgplanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/DRD-Weekly-04-14-2025.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Qualified Data Centers in Prince George's County (November 2025 report)", "publisher": "Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Prince George's County Planning Department", "url": "https://www.pgplanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025_Qualified-Data-Centers-Report_Final_WEB-1.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No county PILOT, abatement or development agreement for any Maryland data center was located or read.", "Frederick County's own statement that it offers no data center incentives could not be confirmed because the county site is unreachable." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Property Tax Exemptions and Payments in Lieu of Taxes in Maryland", "publisher": "Maryland Department of Legislative Services, Office of Policy Analysis", "url": "https://dls.maryland.gov/pubs/prod/InterGovMatters/LocFinTaxRte/Property-Tax-Exemptions-and-PILOT-in-Maryland.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle and Apple location pages were not checked for Maryland sites.", "Colocation operator pages for AiNET, TierPoint, Expedient and Lumen were not yet reviewed directly; those research leads rest on the dataset extract." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Adaptive Data Centers in Frederick County, Maryland — IAD-04", "publisher": "Aligned Data Centers", "url": "https://aligneddc.com/maryland-data-centers/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Bauxite I, II & III — Hyperscale Data Center Campus, Maryland", "publisher": "Rowan Digital Infrastructure", "url": "https://rowan.com/portfolio/bauxite-i-ii-iii/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No unlicensed directory listing was consulted for Maryland." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for Maryland", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Calvert County's own withdrawal notice and the six-month moratorium ordinance were not read because the county host is unreachable.", "No search was made for older Maryland data center closures, demolitions or operator acquisitions." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Calvert Moves to Pause Data Center Site Plans", "publisher": "The Southern Maryland Chronicle", "url": "https://southernmarylandchronicle.com/2026/08/05/calvert-moves-to-pause-data-center-site-plans/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Data Center Dynamics, Maryland Matters and Southern Maryland News Net could not be retrieved during review and The BayNet could not be retrieved during review; only The Southern Maryland Chronicle could be read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Amazon Introduces Potential Calvert County Data Center, Emphasizes Infrastructure, Workforce And Growth", "publisher": "The BayNet", "url": "https://thebaynet.com/amazon-withdraws-calvert-technology-center-data-center-application/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 3, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Massachusetts", "abbr": "MA", "region": "Northeast", "slug": "massachusetts", "url": "/massachusetts/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 0, "facility_count": 1, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "www.mass.gov is unreachable in the current review, so no state incentive programme page, award list or certification register was read.", "The 2024 tax exemption the Compute Atlas notes attribute to the Westfield project was not verified from any source.", "No Massachusetts Economic Assistance Coordinating Council certified-project list was consulted." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The docket index carries descriptions and petitioners but not filing text, so a data center named inside a filing rather than in a docket caption would not be found.", "ISO New England interconnection or large-load queue records were not consulted.", "Eversource, National Grid and Unitil tariff filings were not read individually." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Massachusetts DPU Fileroom docket list (GetAll API, 11,575 dockets)", "publisher": "Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities", "url": "https://eeaonline.eea.state.ma.us/DPU/Fileroom/api/dockets/GetAll", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No MassDEP air or emergency-engine permit was read, although the TierPoint Andover page itself describes two 2.5 MW generators that would normally appear in such records.", "No MEPA Environmental Notification Form or EEA number was retrieved for the Westfield project or any other.", "Municipal building and grading permits were not reachable; the Westfield and Lowell city sites did not respond during review." ], "sources": [ { "title": "EEA ePLACE Public Access Portal (MEPA project record search)", "publisher": "Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs", "url": "https://eeaonline.eea.state.ma.us/EEA/PublicApp/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Massachusetts assessor use codes have no data center class, so the parcel screen depended on owner names and known addresses; an operator holding a site through an unrecognised LLC would not be found.", "Westfield and Lowell city sites did not respond during review, so no planning board decision, zoning case or moratorium text was read for either.", "Boston and Somerville planning and zoning case files were not consulted.", "MAP_PAR_ID is null for Lowell rows in the statewide layer, so the Markley Lowell parcels are identified by LOC_ID only." ], "sources": [ { "title": "MassGIS Standardized Parcels with Assessor Data – statewide owner-name sweep for data center operators", "publisher": "MassGIS / Executive Office of Technology Services and Security", "url": "https://arcgisserver.digital.mass.gov/arcgisserver/rest/services/AGOL/L3_Parcels_FeatureService_4326/FeatureServer/1/query?where=UPPER%28OWNER1%29+LIKE+%27%25MARKLEY+ONE+SUMMER%25%27+OR+UPPER%28OWNER1%29+LIKE+%27%25MARKLEY+GROUP%25%27+OR+UPPER%28OWNER1%29+LIKE+%27%25IRON+MOUNTAIN+DATA%25%27+OR+UPPER%28OWNER1%29+LIKE+%27%25EQUINIX%25%27+OR+UPPER%28OWNER1%29+LIKE+%27%25MASSACHUSETTS+GREEN+HIGH+PERFORMANCE%25%27&outFields=%2A&returnGeometry=false&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "MassGIS Standardized Parcels with Assessor Data – address query, 15 Shattuck Rd Andover and 191/199 Servistar Industrial Way Westfield", "publisher": "MassGIS / Executive Office of Technology Services and Security", "url": "https://arcgisserver.digital.mass.gov/arcgisserver/rest/services/AGOL/L3_Parcels_FeatureService_4326/FeatureServer/1/query?where=%28CITY%3D%27ANDOVER%27+AND+UPPER%28SITE_ADDR%29+LIKE+%2715+SHATTUCK%25%27%29+OR+%28CITY%3D%27WESTFIELD%27+AND+UPPER%28SITE_ADDR%29+LIKE+%27191+SERVISTAR%25%27%29+OR+%28CITY%3D%27WESTFIELD%27+AND+UPPER%28SITE_ADDR%29+LIKE+%27199%25SERVISTAR%25%27%29&outFields=%2A&returnGeometry=false&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "MassGIS Standardized Parcels with Assessor Data – Inner Belt Road, Somerville", "publisher": "MassGIS / Executive Office of Technology Services and Security", "url": "https://arcgisserver.digital.mass.gov/arcgisserver/rest/services/AGOL/L3_Parcels_FeatureService_4326/FeatureServer/1/query?where=CITY%3D%27SOMERVILLE%27+AND+UPPER%28SITE_ADDR%29+LIKE+%27%25INNER+BELT%25%27&outFields=%2A&returnGeometry=false&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The 2024 Westfield tax exemption reported in the licensed dataset was not verified.", "The disputed Lowell abatement and its job commitments were not read.", "No state Economic Assistance Coordinating Council or municipal TIF register was consulted." ], "sources": [ { "title": "City of Westfield website", "publisher": "City of Westfield, Massachusetts", "url": "https://www.cityofwestfield.org/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City of Lowell website", "publisher": "City of Lowell, Massachusetts", "url": "https://www.lowellma.gov/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle and Apple location pages were not checked for Massachusetts; none of these operators appears in any source opened here.", "Markley Group's own site was not yet reviewed directly, so its Boston and Lowell capacity claims come only from the licensed dataset.", "Iron Mountain and Equinix facility pages were not yet reviewed directly, so the two new parcel research leads have no operator disclosure at all." ], "sources": [ { "title": "CoreSite BO1 - Boston Data Center site page", "publisher": "CoreSite", "url": "https://www.coresite.com/data-center/bo1-boston-ma", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "TierPoint Boston (Andover) data center site page", "publisher": "TierPoint", "url": "https://www.tierpoint.com/data-centers/massachusetts/boston-andover/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Directory listings (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, PeeringDB) were not yet reviewed directly; the Baxtel and Data Center Map URLs the dataset cites for Westfield and Markley Boston were not retrieved.", "No cross-check was made against FracTracker or other trackers." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas facilities.json snapshot 71df145 – Massachusetts extract (6 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The reported Westfield council moratorium and the reported Lowell moratorium were not read; both city sites did not respond during review.", "The Massachusetts lawsuit reported against the Lowell facility was not traced to a court docket.", "No archived or historical sweep was made for Massachusetts data centers that closed before 2021." ], "sources": [ { "title": "City of Holyoke website search for \"data center\"", "publisher": "City of Holyoke, Massachusetts", "url": "https://www.holyoke.org/?s=data+center", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "not_searched", "gaps": [ "No news or advocacy source was opened for Massachusetts; the Boston Globe, WBUR, Boston.com, Harvard Crimson, NBC Boston and Working Mass articles the licensed dataset cites were not retrieved." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-13", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 4, "distinct_counties": 0, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Michigan", "abbr": "MI", "region": "Midwest", "slug": "michigan", "url": "/michigan/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 2, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Michigan Department of Treasury or Michigan Economic Development Corporation source was opened; the only attempted path could not be retrieved.", "No list of certified Michigan enterprise data centres was obtained, so the state's incentive recipients are entirely absent from the current research record.", "Whether the Saline Township PA 198 industrial development district was ever established was not checked." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Michigan Department of Treasury sales and use tax pages", "publisher": "Michigan Department of Treasury", "url": "https://www.michigan.gov/treasury/taxes/business-taxes/sales-and-use-tax", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The MPSC case system is a JavaScript application and its filing index was not enumerated; only the single filing linked by the township was retrieved.", "Case U-21990, DTE 2025 Data Center Special Contracts, was identified but not yet reviewed directly.", "No Consumers Energy or Michigan municipal utility large-load filing was searched, so no utility-request figure exists for any Michigan research lead outside Van Buren Township." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Qualifications and Public Direct Testimony of Neal T. Foley, MPSC Case No. U-22058, Application of DTE Electric Company for Approval of Special Contracts and for other relief", "publisher": "Michigan Public Service Commission", "url": "https://mi-psc.my.site.com/sfc/servlet.shepherd/version/download/068cs00001pUwYcAAK", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "In the matter of the application of DTE Electric Company for approval of special contracts and for other relief (case docket page)", "publisher": "Michigan Public Service Commission", "url": "https://mi-psc.my.site.com/s/case/500cs00001amKTrAAM/in-the-matter-of-the-application-of-dte-electric-company-for-approval-of-special-contracts-and-for-other-relief", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Michigan air Permit to Install number was obtained for any data centre, so the generator fleets that are documented for Illinois have no Michigan equivalent here.", "The EGLE site specific review for the Saline Township project is a scanned image and was not read.", "No EGLE water withdrawal registration, wetland permit number or NPDES permit was retrieved.", "The MiEnviro Portal was identified but not queried." ], "sources": [ { "title": "April 24, 2026 EGLE Site Specific Review (published by Saline Township)", "publisher": "Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (published by Saline Township)", "url": "https://salinetownship.org/go.php?id=748&table=page_uploads", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Data centers and environmental review", "publisher": "Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy", "url": "https://www.michigan.gov/egle/about/featured/data-centers", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "EGLE public notice calendar", "publisher": "Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy", "url": "https://www.michigan.gov/egle/outreach/public-notice-calendar", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No county assessor or GIS parcel portal was queried in Michigan, so the only parcel identifier in the current research record is the single PA 116 parcel quoted in the Saline consent judgment.", "No other Michigan municipality or township was visited; Lyon, Augusta, Frenchtown, Vevay, Dorr, Lowell and Gaines townships and the cities of Southfield, Lansing, Flint, Gibraltar, Dowagiac, Marshall and Ypsilanti were not reached.", "The Saline Township site plan sheets and the consent judgment exhibits beyond page 40 were not read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Consent Judgment, RD Michigan Property Owner I LLC and others v. Saline Township, Washtenaw County Circuit Court Civil Action No. 2025-001577-CZ", "publisher": "Saline Township (publishing the Washtenaw County Circuit Court judgment)", "url": "https://salinetownship.org/uploads/notices/SalineDataCenterConsentJudgmentFinalExecutionCopy492124804975v1.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Saline Township Data Center Project Information and Frequently Asked Questions (last updated 28 January 2026)", "publisher": "Saline Township", "url": "https://salinetownship.org/go.php?id=731&table=page_uploads", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Data Center Update page", "publisher": "Saline Township", "url": "http://salinetownship.org/data-center-update", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No PA 198 industrial facilities exemption certificate, PILOT or abatement instrument was retrieved for any Michigan site.", "Whether the Saline Township industrial development district was established is unknown.", "No state incentive agreement was reachable; see the incentives family." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Development Agreement between PDC VBT, LLC and the Charter Township of Van Buren, dated May 19, 2026", "publisher": "Charter Township of Van Buren", "url": "https://vbtmi.gov/Document_Center/Department/Municipal%20Services/Development%20Agreement%20VBT%202026.05.20%20final.pdf", "evidence_class": "agreement" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No hyperscaler location page was opened for Michigan; the three Microsoft township land positions rest on the dataset alone.", "Switch, Related Digital, Verrus, Metrobloks, Cloverleaf, Raeden and Hyperscale Data operator pages were not yet reviewed directly.", "Google's own Michigan announcement was identified through the township page but not read, so the 2.7 GW portfolio figure it is said to contain is not carried anywhere." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Los Alamos National Laboratory news item on the University of Michigan collaboration", "publisher": "Los Alamos National Laboratory", "url": "https://www.lanl.gov/media/news/1206-university-of-michigan-collaboration", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Panattoni Van Buren project page", "publisher": "Panattoni", "url": "https://www.panattoni.com/vanburen/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No unlicensed directory was used, so no cross-reference of Michigan colocation facility counts was attempted.", "Nineteen Michigan dataset records, mostly small operating colocation facilities run by 123NET, US Signal and EdgeConneX plus the Oakland University, Prologis, Sansone, Solstice and Stantec proposals, were read only at summary level and were not turned into research leads." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for Michigan (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Michigan municipal denial, withdrawal or rescission file was retrieved directly; three of the four reversals rest on the dataset alone.", "The Deep Green Lansing status is contested between the dataset's two cited sources and no city record was obtained to settle it.", "No closed or demolished Michigan data centre was searched for, and no rename or acquisition history was traced beyond the Hyperscale Data conversion and the former McLouth Steel site name." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for Michigan, cancelled and withdrawn records (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep partway through Michigan, so every Michigan source after that point had to be reached by direct URL from a document already in hand. No keyword news sweep of Michigan was possible." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Google blog post on clean energy and reliability in Michigan", "publisher": "Google", "url": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/global-network/clean-energy-reliability-michigan/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-11", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-12.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-12." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 5, "distinct_counties": 2, "multi_source_records": 2 }, { "name": "Minnesota", "abbr": "MN", "region": "Midwest", "slug": "minnesota", "url": "/minnesota/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Minnesota certification list, programme report or incentive award document was obtained, so no Minnesota research lead carries an incentive record.", "The bot wall was not bypassed, by rule; all three mn.gov attempts are recorded as failures.", "The 2025 statutory changes to the Minnesota exemption, which the Illinois report describes as adding green certifications, increasing water permitting and terminating the electricity exemption, were not checked against a Minnesota source." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Governor Walz Announces Meta Will Build New Data Center in Rosemount (press release page)", "publisher": "Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development", "url": "https://mn.gov/deed/newscenter/press-releases/?id=1045-614051", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Minnesota docket document was read, so no docket number, electric service agreement or large-load tariff appears in the current research record.", "No Minnesota research lead carries a utility request megawatt figure.", "Great River Energy, Dakota Electric and municipal utility filings were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "eFiling and eDockets home", "publisher": "Minnesota Public Utilities Commission and Minnesota Department of Commerce", "url": "https://www.edockets.state.mn.us/", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The air permit applications dashboard is a Tableau view and was not queried, so no Minnesota air permit application number was obtained.", "No water appropriation permit, NPDES permit or wetland permit was searched, even though the dataset records Minnesota water-permitting changes for data centres.", "No Minnesota generator fleet is documented anywhere in the current research record." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Air permits", "publisher": "Minnesota Pollution Control Agency", "url": "https://www.pca.state.mn.us/business-with-us/air-permits", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Air permit applications received (interactive dashboard)", "publisher": "Minnesota Pollution Control Agency", "url": "https://data.pca.state.mn.us/views/Airpermitapplicationsreceived/Permitapplications", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "MPCA public notices and data centre pages", "publisher": "Minnesota Pollution Control Agency", "url": "https://www.pca.state.mn.us/news-and-stories/public-notices", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Six of the seven Minnesota municipalities with active data centre cases were unreachable, so the plat, planned unit development, development contract, rezoning and denial records behind five Minnesota lifecycle statuses were never read.", "No Minnesota county assessor or GIS portal was queried; no parcel identifier appears anywhere in the current research record.", "The Glencoe rezoning the dataset dates to 6 November 2025 falls between the two council meetings the city's index lists, and could not be located." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data Center - Farmington Technology Park", "publisher": "City of Farmington, Minnesota", "url": "https://www.farmingtonmn.gov/473/Data-Center-Farmington-Technology-Park", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City of Rosemount data centre project page", "publisher": "City of Rosemount, Minnesota", "url": "https://www.rosemountmn.gov/1114/Data-Center", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Council Agenda and Minutes index", "publisher": "City of Glencoe, Minnesota", "url": "https://www.glencoemn.org/city-government/council-agenda-minutes/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Minnesota development agreement, tax abatement, tax increment financing instrument or certification was retrieved.", "Whether the Farmington development contract remains in force after the litigation the dataset mentions is unknown." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No colocation operator page was opened for Minnesota, so the DataBank, Centersquare, Flexential, LightEdge, CENTRA, H5, Lumen, Vaultas and AAIM records rest on the dataset alone.", "Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Tract location pages were not yet reviewed directly for Minnesota.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for Minnesota, so operator pages could only be reached by guessing URLs or by following links already held." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hello, Rosemount!", "publisher": "Meta", "url": "https://datacenters.atmeta.com/2024/03/hello-rosemount/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No unlicensed directory was consulted, so no independent count of Minnesota colocation facilities was attempted.", "Because almost nothing else was reachable, 25 of the 26 Minnesota research leads cite only this one dataset, which is a single point of failure for the statewide review." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for Minnesota (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Every one of these reversals rests on the dataset; no Minnesota city denial, withdrawal letter or council minute was retrieved to confirm any of them.", "The dataset records that Google abandoned a $600 million Becker project in 2022 but holds no record for it, so that closure is noted and not carried as a research lead.", "No closed or demolished Minnesota data centre was searched for." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for Minnesota, cancelled and withdrawn records (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before Minnesota, so no keyword news sweep of Minnesota was possible and the Star Tribune, Sun Thisweek and other local coverage the dataset cites was not read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Xcel Energy to power new Google data center in Minnesota", "publisher": "Xcel Energy", "url": "https://newsroom.xcelenergy.com/news/xcel-energy-to-power-new-google-data-center-in-minnesota", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-13", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 4, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Mississippi", "abbr": "MS", "region": "South", "slug": "mississippi", "url": "/mississippi/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "MDA publishes no roster of enterprises certified under the Data Center Enterprises exemption, so certified recipients could not be enumerated.", "No MDA project file, incentive agreement or Major Economic Impact Authority award document was reached." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Amazon Web Services plans to invest $10 billion, creating 1,000 jobs to establish data center complexes in Mississippi", "publisher": "Mississippi Development Authority", "url": "https://mississippi.org/news/amazon-web-services-to-invest-record-shattering-10-billion/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Amazon continues Mississippi expansion, announcing plans to invest a total of $25 billion across the Magnolia State", "publisher": "Mississippi Development Authority", "url": "https://mississippi.org/news/amazon-continues-mississippi-expansion-announcing-plans-to-invest-a-total-of-25-billion-across-the-magnolia-state/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Compass Datacenters project generates $10 billion investment in Lauderdale County", "publisher": "Mississippi Development Authority", "url": "https://mississippi.org/news/compass-datacenters-project-generates-10-billion-investment-in-lauderdale-county/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The PSC CTS document portal (ctsportal.psc.ms.gov) presents a connection error and could not be opened by the available access methods, so no docket filing text was read.", "No 2026 monthly utility docket calendar was located at the psc.ms.gov file path pattern; only the October 2025 calendar was read, so 2026 dockets are unexamined.", "The subject of the Cosmos Project filing was not established; it may or may not be a data center load.", "Mississippi Power large-load tariffs and any Compass Datacenters service agreement were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Mississippi Public Service Commission Utility Docket for the regular meeting of October 16, 2025", "publisher": "Mississippi Public Service Commission", "url": "https://www.psc.ms.gov/sites/default/files/2025-10/10-2025-UTILITY-DOCKET.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Mississippi PSC CTS document portal filing (ctsportal.psc.ms.gov ViewFile, fileId Vf+rlg4snQ4)", "publisher": "Mississippi Public Service Commission", "url": "https://ctsportal.psc.ms.gov/portal/ViewFile?fileId=Vf+rlg4snQ4%3D", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No MDEQ permit number, agency interest number or permit document was obtained for any research lead in the current research record.", "The March 2026 Mississippi Permit Board action on the Southaven turbines was not confirmed against an agency record, and the appeal of that permit was not traced.", "Water withdrawal and stormwater construction notices were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "MDEQ site search for xAI", "publisher": "Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://www.mdeq.ms.gov/?s=xAI", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "MDEQ enSearch: EPD Permits at Public Notice", "publisher": "Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://www.mdeq.ms.gov/ensearch/epd-permits-at-public-notice/", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "MDEQ enSearch Online (agency interest and permit search portal)", "publisher": "Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://opcgis.deq.state.ms.us/ensearchonline/default.aspx", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Mississippi county or municipal planning, zoning, minutes or assessor record was opened, so no research lead in the current research record carries a verbatim parcel ID, plat number or case number.", "Madison County, Rankin County, Lauderdale County, Warren County and Hinds County land-use files are entirely unexamined." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The statutory text could not be read: the Mississippi Legislature's bill status host presents a connection error, and the Justia mirror could not be retrieved during review.", "No executed certification, fee-in-lieu agreement or county development agreement was located for any Mississippi data center." ], "sources": [ { "title": "AVAIO Digital to locate $6 billion data center campus in Rankin County — campus represents the third-largest economic development project in state history", "publisher": "Office of Governor Tate Reeves", "url": "https://governorreeves.ms.gov/avaio-digital-to-locate-6-billion-data-center-campus-in-rankin-county-campus-represents-the-third-largest-economic-development-project-in-state-history/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Mississippi House Bill 1239, 2025 Regular Session (as passed the House) — Data Center Enterprises tax exemptions", "publisher": "Mississippi Legislature", "url": "https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1239PS.htm", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Amazon Web Services, Compass Datacenters, AVAIO Digital and xAI location or newsroom pages were not yet reviewed directly.", "No colocation operator page was consulted for Mississippi." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compass Project Generates $10B Investment in Lauderdale County", "publisher": "Compass Datacenters", "url": "https://www.compassdatacenters.com/news/compass-10b-investment-lauderdale-county-mississippi/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No commercial directory was consulted, so Mississippi colocation and carrier facilities are not represented at all in the current research record.", "The crypto-mining exclusions are recorded only in this finding, not as research leads, so the current published record does not include the Greenidge Columbus cancellation." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas Mississippi extract (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas (Edward Kubiak)", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The Saxum withdrawal rests entirely on a search-result summary; nothing was read verbatim and no City of Jackson planning file was reached.", "No sweep was performed for closed, demolished or renamed Mississippi data centers.", "The cancelled Greenidge Columbus site is crypto mining and was excluded from scope rather than preserved as a research lead." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No systematic Mississippi news sweep was performed." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Another city to consider zoning ordinance changes to tackle data centers", "publisher": "WLBT", "url": "https://www.wlbt.com/2026/06/02/another-city-consider-zoning-ordinance-changes-tackle-data-centers/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 1, "distinct_counties": 0, "multi_source_records": 0 }, { "name": "Missouri", "abbr": "MO", "region": "Midwest", "slug": "missouri", "url": "/missouri/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Missouri Works or Chapter 100 award list was opened, and no state data center sales tax exemption register was located.", "The Montgomery County tax abatement framework for AWS and the Google PILOT terms were seen only in search results, not in a county record." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Missouri Secures $15 Billion Investment from Google in Montgomery County", "publisher": "Office of Governor Mike Kehoe, State of Missouri", "url": "https://governor.mo.gov/press-releases/archive/missouri-secures-15-billion-investment-google-montgomery-county", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Lambda to establish AI factory facility in Kansas City", "publisher": "Missouri Department of Economic Development", "url": "https://ded.mo.gov/press-room/lambda-establish-ai-factory-facility-kansas-city", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "EFIS has no keyword search I could reach without interactive use, so only dockets surfaced by earlier searching were opened.", "No Evergy large-load tariff, special contract or electric service agreement docket was located.", "The Ameren CCN docket EA-2026-0058 for Montgomery and Callaway transmission upgrades was opened only at the docket-sheet level; its filings were not read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ameren Missouri Motion for Protective Order, File No. ER-2026-0291", "publisher": "Missouri Public Service Commission", "url": "https://efis.psc.mo.gov/Document/Display/880665", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "EFIS docket sheet EA-2026-0058, Ameren Missouri CCN for transmission upgrades in Montgomery and Callaway Counties", "publisher": "Missouri Public Service Commission", "url": "https://efis.psc.mo.gov/Case/Display/100845", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "EFIS docket sheet EO-2026-0037, Ameren Missouri special contemporary resource planning issues", "publisher": "Missouri Public Service Commission", "url": "https://efis.psc.mo.gov/Case/Display/100250", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The issued air permit index serves 40 alphabetical entries per page with no keyword filter reachable without interactive use, so no data center construction permit was retrieved for any Missouri research lead.", "Water withdrawal, wastewater and land disturbance permits were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data Centers", "publisher": "Missouri Department of Natural Resources", "url": "https://dnr.mo.gov/data-e-services/centers", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Issued Air Permits", "publisher": "Missouri Department of Natural Resources", "url": "https://dnr.mo.gov/air/business-industry/permits/issued-pending", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The City of Warrenton agenda and minutes page serves no documents, so the Crusoe conditional use permit and site plan record was not read.", "No City of Independence record for the Nebius project was retrieved.", "No Missouri county assessor or GIS parcel record was opened, so no research lead carries a parcel identifier.", "The Montgomery County Commission administrative review for Project Green and Project Spade was not retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Kansas City Ordinance 210841, preliminary plat for Zone 3 of Golden Plains Technology Park", "publisher": "City Clerk, Kansas City, Missouri", "url": "https://clerk.kcmo.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5140162&GUID=B4B56878-A985-43D7-A86E-1C499DF6EC99", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Webster County Commission – Data Center Update – May 21", "publisher": "Webster County, Missouri", "url": "https://webstercountymo.gov/commission-data-center-update-may-21/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City of Warrenton Meeting Agendas & Minutes", "publisher": "City of Warrenton, Missouri", "url": "https://www.warrenton-mo.org/meeting-agendas-minutes/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The Chapter 100 bond documents and the actual development agreements behind Project Mica and Project Kestrel were not retrieved.", "The Montgomery County AWS tax abatement framework approved in December 2025 and the Google PILOT terms were not retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Project Mica", "publisher": "Port Authority of Kansas City (Port KC)", "url": "https://portkc.com/project/project-mica/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "$100 Billion Data Center Development to bring Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs to the Northland", "publisher": "Port Authority of Kansas City (Port KC)", "url": "https://portkc.com/100-billion-data-center-development-to-bring-infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-to-the-northland/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Amazon, Google, Meta, Nebius, Lambda, QTS, TierPoint, Netrality and Patmos disclosure pages were not yet reviewed directly.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before this family could be searched properly, so it rests on direct URL fetches only." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Crusoe corporate site", "publisher": "Crusoe Energy Systems", "url": "https://www.crusoe.ai/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No directory listing (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com) was opened." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for Missouri (19 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The KSDK article covering the Franklin County rejection of the Crooked Creek data center could not be retrieved during review, so that rejection is recorded only as an access failure and has no research lead.", "No Kansas City Plan Commission case file was retrieved for the Quality Hill denial.", "Renames, acquisitions and closures of Missouri colocation facilities were not researched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "KCUR: Kansas City officials denied a plan for downtown data center. Some residents vow to keep fighting", "publisher": "KCUR", "url": "https://www.kcur.org/housing-development-section/2026-08-10/kansas-city-officials-denied-a-plan-for-downtown-data-center-some-residents-vow-to-keep-fighting", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Most news leads in the Compute Atlas extract were not yet reviewed directly.", "The KSDK Franklin County article was blocked." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Warren County Record: Warrenton Planning and Zoning approves data center site plan, conditional use", "publisher": "Warren County Record", "url": "https://www.warrencountyrecord.com/stories/warrenton-planning-and-zoning-approves-data-center-site-plan-conditional-use,180583", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "ABC 17 News: Montgomery County approves land for two large-scale projects on Amazon data center campus", "publisher": "ABC 17 News (KMIZ)", "url": "https://abc17news.com/news/montgomery/2025/12/03/montgomery-county-approves-land-for-two-large-scale-projects-on-amazon-data-center-campus/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "KSHB 41: Nebius breaks ground on 45-acre AI data center in Independence amid community opposition", "publisher": "KSHB 41 (Scripps)", "url": "https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/missouri/jackson-county/nebius-breaks-ground-on-45-acre-ai-data-center-in-independence-amid-community-opposition", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 1, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 0 }, { "name": "Montana", "abbr": "MT", "region": "West", "slug": "montana", "url": "/montana/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-14" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Montana Code Annotated property-class provisions for data centers were not retrieved.", "No state incentive award or certification list was located.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for this state, so discovery relied on direct review of known official URLs." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Montana Department of Commerce website", "publisher": "Montana Department of Commerce", "url": "https://commerce.mt.gov/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Montana Department of Revenue website", "publisher": "Montana Department of Revenue", "url": "https://mtrevenue.gov/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The Montana PSC docket system was unreachable in the current review (connection error), so no large-load tariff, special contract or docket number was verified.", "NorthWestern's Rates & Tariffs and SEC filings pages were not yet reviewed directly.", "No interconnection queue record was retrieved for the 1,100 MW Big Sky request." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Montana Public Service Commission website and document paths", "publisher": "Montana Public Service Commission", "url": "https://psc.mt.gov/Docs", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "DEQ's issued-permit database was not located; one programs path could not be retrieved and another path was unavailable.", "No air, water or stormwater permit was found for the Big Sky, Sabey or TAC sites.", "Montana DEQ permit numbers for other bitcoin mining sites were not swept." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Montana Air Quality Permit #5262-05, final and effective, NYDIG DFM, LLC — Kraken Central Site", "publisher": "Montana Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://deq.mt.gov/files/Air/AirQuality/Documents/ARMpermits/5262-05.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Air Quality program pages", "publisher": "Montana Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://deq.mt.gov/air/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "City of Great Falls and Billings City-County Planning records remain incomplete; later Butte-Silver Bow records were opened for an unverified lead only.", "No assessor or GIS parcel record was retrieved in Montana.", "Yellowstone County zoning commission minutes for the Broadview-area site were not obtained." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Board of County Commissioners agenda", "publisher": "Yellowstone County", "url": "https://www.yellowstonecountymt.gov/Commissioners/BOCC_Agenda.asp", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Board minutes archive", "publisher": "Yellowstone County", "url": "https://www.yellowstonecountymt.gov/clerk/Minutes/BoardMinutes.asp", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Butte-Silver Bow county website", "publisher": "City and County of Butte-Silver Bow", "url": "https://co.silverbow.mt.us/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The image-only proposed agreement is excluded from the queued claim because it was not independently re-read; its exact acreage, parcels and signatures remain unverified, as do authorization, execution, any amendment, closing, current contract performance and tax-abatement terms.", "The Great Falls Development Alliance materials behind the TAC land-lease option were not obtained.", "No Basin Creek TEDD agreement was retrieved for the separate Atlas Power lead." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Butte-Silver Bow Council agenda — April 16, 2025, Communication 2025-211", "publisher": "City and County of Butte-Silver Bow", "url": "https://www.co.silverbow.mt.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162025-4618", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Butte-Silver Bow — Ad Hoc Data Center Impact Committee", "publisher": "City and County of Butte-Silver Bow", "url": "https://www.co.silverbow.mt.us/3468/Ad--Hoc-Data-Center-Impact-Committee", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Montana Connections TEDD Board agenda — April 24, 2026", "publisher": "City and County of Butte-Silver Bow", "url": "https://www.co.silverbow.mt.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04242026-5031", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Oracle and Apple location pages were not checked for Montana.", "Sabey Data Centers' and TAC Data Centers' own sites were not yet reviewed directly.", "Beowulf Electricity and Data's site was not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "United States data center locations", "publisher": "Meta", "url": "https://datacenters.atmeta.com/us-locations/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Data center locations", "publisher": "Google", "url": "https://datacenters.google/locations/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Quantica Infrastructure introduces Big Sky Digital Infrastructure as its flagship development platform in Montana", "publisher": "Quantica Infrastructure", "url": "https://quanticainfra.com/2025/08/04/quantica-infrastructure-introduces-big-sky-digital-infrastructure-as-its-flagship-development-platform-in-montana/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Data Center Map could not be retrieved during review to the available access methods, so no directory cross-check of Montana colocation facilities was possible.", "Baxtel and similar listings were not used." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas extract for Montana (7 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" }, { "title": "Montana data center listings", "publisher": "Data Center Map", "url": "https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/montana/", "evidence_class": "directory_listing" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No city, county or state record confirming the TAC withdrawal was obtainable.", "Whether the Hardin decommissioning is permanent is unresolved; the operator says it intends to expand.", "No archived-page sweep was performed for renamed Montana facilities." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data center pulls out of Great Falls, group says; others charge ahead", "publisher": "Daily Montanan (via Bozeman Daily Chronicle)", "url": "https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/data-center-pulls-out-of-great-falls-group-says-others-charge-ahead/article_b0db80fc-ee47-4dae-ae21-fbebbe76dbcd.html", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Data Center Dynamics could not be retrieved during review to retrieval, so the 1 GW campus report was not read.", "The MEIC hub page's per-project sub-pages were not enumerable from the saved HTML.", "Legislative Energy and Technology Interim Committee minutes, referenced in the news, were not retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Is NorthWestern hoodwinking customers as it lures data centers into the state?", "publisher": "Montana Environmental Information Center", "url": "https://meic.org/is-northwestern-hoodwinking-customers-as-it-lures-data-centers-into-the-state/", "evidence_class": "advocacy_or_research" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-13", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 3, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Nebraska", "abbr": "NE", "region": "Midwest", "slug": "nebraska", "url": "/nebraska/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Nebraska Department of Economic Development announcement was opened.", "The Data Center Equipment exemption table is county-level only; the underlying agreements were not retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "ImagiNE Nebraska Act", "publisher": "Nebraska Department of Revenue", "url": "https://revenue.nebraska.gov/incentives/imagine-nebraska-act", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "ImagiNE Nebraska Act and Key Employer and Jobs Retention Act Joint Report to the Legislature, FYE June 2025", "publisher": "Nebraska Department of Revenue", "url": "https://revenue.nebraska.gov/sites/default/files/doc/incentives/annual_report/ImagiNE_Key_Employer_FYE_6-30-25_Final_Copy.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No OPPD, NPPD, Lincoln Electric System or public power district board record naming a specific data center customer was found, and OPPD large-load contracts are not published.", "Only one NPPD board packet and a handful of OPPD documents were opened; the board archives were not swept.", "Nebraska Power Review Board order documents are not linked from the order index page served to me." ], "sources": [ { "title": "OPPD Resolution No. 6767, Update to Service Regulations, with rate schedules", "publisher": "Omaha Public Power District", "url": "https://www.oppd.com/media/321584/2026-5-may-resolution-6767-update-to-service-regulations.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "OPPD Resolution No. 6736, SD-11 Economic Development Monitoring Report", "publisher": "Omaha Public Power District", "url": "https://www.oppd.com/media/321257/2025-12-dec-resolution-6736-sd-11-economic-development-monitoring-report.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Orders Issued by the Board", "publisher": "Nebraska Power Review Board", "url": "https://powerreview.nebraska.gov/orders-issued-board", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No air, water or stormwater permit was retrieved for any Nebraska research lead.", "The department's permit search application was not located without a broader search in the current review." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy", "publisher": "Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy", "url": "https://dee.nebraska.gov/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Nebraska DEE air permits path (attempted)", "publisher": "Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy", "url": "https://dee.nebraska.gov/air/permits", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Sarpy County's CivicWeb planning portal remained unreadable during intake; the later annual-report page does not replace a planning or parcel search.", "No county assessor or GIS parcel record was opened. The later Papillion permit report supplies one exact street address for the published Google campus, but no parcel identifier.", "Otoe County, Gage County, Buffalo County and Adams County records were not reached." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Sarpy County Board web portal (CivicWeb)", "publisher": "Sarpy County, Nebraska", "url": "https://sarpy.civicweb.net/Portal/MeetingTypeList.aspx", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City of Papillion Agenda Center", "publisher": "City of Papillion, Nebraska", "url": "https://www.papillion.org/AgendaCenter", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City of Springfield City Council Agendas", "publisher": "City of Springfield, Nebraska", "url": "https://www.springfieldne.org/vnews/display.v/ART/67479bbf54fbf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Nebraska development agreement, tax increment financing record or payment in lieu of taxes agreement was retrieved for any research lead.", "Sarpy County and City of Papillion agreements with Google, and City of Springfield agreements with Meta, were not reached." ], "sources": [ { "title": "OPPD Economic Development", "publisher": "Omaha Public Power District", "url": "https://www.oppd.com/business/economic-development/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Google, Meta, H5, TierPoint, LightEdge, Scott Data, 1623 Farnam, Binary Net, Sagebrush and Sequitor Edge disclosure pages were not yet reviewed directly.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for Nebraska, so this family rests on direct URL fetches only." ], "sources": [ { "title": "MARA Holdings, Inc. Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025", "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1507605/000150760526000007/mara-20251231.htm", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No directory listing was opened; the Binary Net lead's only non-Compute-Atlas source is an unlicensed listing site that was not used.", "Compute Atlas is the sole evidence for fourteen of the twenty Nebraska research leads." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for Nebraska (43 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The Gage County article body did not render, so that moratorium is recorded from its headline only and supports no research lead.", "No Nebraska data center closure, demolition or withdrawn application was found.", "The Compute North bankruptcy history behind the Minden site was not researched beyond the Compute Atlas record name." ], "sources": [ { "title": "10/11 NOW: Otoe County commissioners pass moratorium, data center or not", "publisher": "News Channel Nebraska via KOLN/KGIN", "url": "https://www.1011now.com/2026/05/20/otoe-county-commissioners-pass-moratorium-data-center-or-not/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Nebraska Public Media: Gage County Planning and Zoning Commission approves 18-month moratorium on data centers", "publisher": "Nebraska Public Media", "url": "https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/gage-county-planning-and-zoning-commission-approves-18-month-moratorium-on-data-centers/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Both news sources are partial; neither body was obtained.", "No other Nebraska news source was opened." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Omaha World-Herald: Google: Papillion is a go for $600 million data center — Sarpy County’s 8th", "publisher": "Omaha World-Herald", "url": "https://omaha.com/news/nation-world/business/google-papillion-is-a-go-for-600-million-data-center-sarpy-countys-8th/article_71d55664-45c4-57f9-84b8-7b0c99938bfc.html", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Hastings Tribune: Adams County Planning and Zoning Commission recommends conditional use permit for county’s first data center", "publisher": "Hastings Tribune", "url": "https://www.hastingstribune.com/news/adams-county-planning-and-zoning-commission-recommends-conditional-use-permit-for-countys-first-data-center/article_b39985d2-ab6e-11ee-9c27-832166c0311a.html", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-13", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 2, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Nevada", "abbr": "NV", "region": "West", "slug": "nevada", "url": "/nevada/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The GOED board-packet index was not enumerated, so packets for Colovore, Google, Switch, Vantage, Novva and other recipients were not retrieved.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before a GOED abatement list could be located.", "No Nevada Department of Taxation record of abated data centres was searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development newsroom — 'Google plans to invest in Nevada this year'", "publisher": "Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development", "url": "https://goed.nv.gov/newsroom/google-plans-to-invest-in-nevada-this-year/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No individual PUCN filing or order was opened; only docket-list descriptions were read.", "Clean Transition Tariff docket 24-05023 unread, so the 115 MW Corsac Station commitment is not cited by any research lead.", "No NV Energy large-load or economic development rate tariff sheet was retrieved.", "The second search planned for this family could not run because the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Public Utilities Commission of Nevada — Electric Dockets list", "publisher": "Public Utilities Commission of Nevada", "url": "https://pucweb1.state.nv.us/PUC2/Dktinfo.aspx?Util=Electric", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "PUCN Docket No. 24-05023 — NV Energy Clean Transition Tariff (Google/Fervo)", "publisher": "Public Utilities Commission of Nevada", "url": "https://pucweb1.state.nv.us/PUC2/Dktinfo.aspx", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The NDEP permit index at ndep.nv.gov/posts was not enumerated, so permits for Google, Vantage, Novva, Fleet, Tract and the Las Vegas valley facilities were not retrieved.", "No water pollution control, stormwater or construction general permit was searched.", "No Nevada Division of Water Resources water right or appropriation record was searched, so no state water record appears in the current research record." ], "sources": [ { "title": "NDEP Notice of Proposed Action — Class I Air Quality Operating Permit to Construct AP7374-4768, Amazon Data Services, Inc.", "publisher": "Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Air Pollution Control", "url": "https://ndep.nv.gov/uploads/documents/ap7374-4768-proposed-action.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "NDEP Director's Review and Preliminary Determination of Permit Issuance for Amazon Data Services, Inc., Storey County, Nevada, January 30, 2026", "publisher": "Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Air Pollution Control", "url": "https://www.ndep.nv.gov/uploads/documents/ap7374-4768-directors-review.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "NDEP Class II Air Quality Operating Permit AP7374-5002, Colovore Reno 1 LLC", "publisher": "Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Air Pollution Control", "url": "https://ndep.nv.gov/uploads/documents/ap7374-5002-class-ii-aqop.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Storey County planning and commission records unreachable (connection timeout).", "City of Boulder City records unreachable (unavailable during review, then timeout).", "Lyon County code library could not be retrieved during review.", "Clark County and City of Henderson and City of North Las Vegas land-use records were not reached; the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before the Switch LAS 19 approval record could be located.", "No Nevada county assessor or GIS parcel portal was queried, so no research lead carries a parcel number." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Storey County Planning Commission meeting minutes, February 6, 2025", "publisher": "Storey County, Nevada", "url": "https://storeycounty.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_02062025-1264", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Lyon County Ordinance No. 641 could not be retrieved during review.", "The Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center development agreement with Storey County was not located.", "No Clark County or City of Henderson incentive or development agreement was searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development board packet 7-B, Apple, Inc. (Data Center Sales and Use Tax Abatement), July 2024", "publisher": "Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development", "url": "https://goed.nv.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/7-B.-Apple-Inc.-Board-Packet.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Meta Nevada location pages were not yet reviewed directly.", "Colocation operator pages (Vantage, Novva, EdgeCore, Tract, Fleet, PowerHouse, DataBank, Flexential, Fiberhub, EdgeConneX) were not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Switch — Tahoe Reno (The Citadel Campus) page", "publisher": "Switch", "url": "https://www.switch.com/tahoe-reno/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No unlicensed directory (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, PeeringDB, dcmap.us) was consulted, so the dataset's directory-derived Las Vegas colocation entries were not cross-checked." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas extract records for NV (snapshot 71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "City of Boulder City page unreachable, so the reported 6 July 2026 withdrawal is unconfirmed.", "The IBLA order was only available from an appellant's website, so it is recorded as a discovery class rather than a primary record.", "No archived-page sweep for renamed or cancelled Nevada projects was performed." ], "sources": [ { "title": "City of Boulder City — TS2 Data Center Proposal project page", "publisher": "City of Boulder City, Nevada", "url": "https://bcnv.org/1174/TS2-Data-Center-Proposal", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "not_searched", "gaps": [ "No news source is recorded in sources.json, so news-only leads in this state are not traceable from the current research record." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 2, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "New Hampshire", "abbr": "NH", "region": "Northeast", "slug": "new-hampshire", "url": "/new-hampshire/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 0, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "No independently source-linked record is published yet. The reviewed source roster and current research gaps are shown below.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-14" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "no broad discovery sweep was completed for this state: the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for this state, so discovery relied on direct review of known portals, operator sites, directory pages and links found inside retrieved articles.", "BEA grant program lists and any legislative incentive history not reviewed." ], "sources": [ { "title": "New Hampshire Economic Development (BEA)", "publisher": "New Hampshire Department of Business and Economic Affairs", "url": "https://www.nheconomy.com/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "New Hampshire Economic Development financial incentives page", "publisher": "New Hampshire Department of Business and Economic Affairs", "url": "https://www.nheconomy.com/grow-your-business/financial-incentives", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "PUC docket book and any large-load tariff or special contract could not be retrieved during review.", "No later interconnection request or study report naming data-center use and a New Hampshire location was opened.", "NHDES issued air or construction permits naming a data center were not readable (unavailable during review)." ], "sources": [ { "title": "FERC eLibrary document search", "publisher": "Federal Energy Regulatory Commission", "url": "https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/searchresults?searchText=Granite%20Shore%20Power", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "ISO New England interconnection request queue", "publisher": "ISO New England", "url": "https://www.iso-ne.com/system-planning/transmission-planning/interconnection-request-queue", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "FERC ER26-2289-000 file list, accession 20260423-5055, PSNH viability assessment agreement with Granite Shore Power", "publisher": "Federal Energy Regulatory Commission", "url": "https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/filelist?accession_number=20260423-5055", "evidence_class": "docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No NHDES air permit search performed; generator permits for any New Hampshire data center remain unchecked.", "No stormwater or building permit records reviewed." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "May 27 planning-board minutes and the adopted Temporary Moratorium ordinance text were not independently readable.", "No occupancy, change-of-use, or building-permit record naming a data center was opened for Portsmouth, Manchester, Keene, Lebanon, or Bedford.", "The Bow town site did not respond during review; no municipal application naming a data-center project was opened.", "Rochester zoning text was not independently readable." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Official ballot, Special Town Election, Nottingham, New Hampshire, September 8, 2026 (sample ballot with handwritten results)", "publisher": "Town of Nottingham", "url": "https://www.nottingham-nh.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3611/f/news/2026_nottingham_special_town_election_results.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Nottingham Planning Board Case #26-009 conceptual consultation application", "publisher": "Town of Nottingham", "url": "https://www.nottingham-nh.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3611/f/pages/pb_case_26-009_pcc_nottingham_business_park_llc_-_145_old_turnpike_rd_-_application.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Nottingham Planning Board Agenda, May 27, 2026", "publisher": "Town of Nottingham", "url": "https://www.nottingham-nh.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3611/f/agendas/pb_agenda_5-27-2026.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No municipal PILOT or development agreement reviewed.", "no broad discovery sweep was completed for this state." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No hyperscaler (AWS, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle, Apple) location pages checked for New Hampshire; no broad discovery sweep was completed.", "ColoSpace's own site not retrieved.", "FirstLight's facility list pages could not be retrieved in the current review (tried for Vermont)." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Granite Shore Power", "publisher": "Granite Shore Power", "url": "https://graniteshorepower.com/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Granite Shore Power blog index", "publisher": "Granite Shore Power", "url": "https://www.graniteshorepower.com/blog", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Data Center Portsmouth, NH Specifications", "publisher": "FirstLight", "url": "https://www.firstlight.net/resources/data-center-portsmouth-nh-specifications/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Data Center Map and datacenters.com could not be retrieved during review.", "Baxtel and PeeringDB not consulted.", "Directory coverage is uneven, so these listings are not a complete set of New Hampshire facilities." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas facilities.json snapshot 71df145 (state extract)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" }, { "title": "New Hampshire Data Center Location Map", "publisher": "Cloud and Colocation", "url": "https://cloudandcolocation.com/state/new-hampshire/", "evidence_class": "directory_listing" }, { "title": "ColoSpace - Bedford Data Center", "publisher": "Cloud and Colocation", "url": "https://cloudandcolocation.com/datacenters/colospace-bedford-data-center/", "evidence_class": "directory_listing" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No systematic search for older withdrawn or renamed New Hampshire facilities; no broad discovery sweep was completed.", "May 27, 2026 Planning Board minutes remain unread; the town-hosted application, agendas and withdrawal letter were retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Morris & Scully letter withdrawing Case #26-009 without prejudice", "publisher": "Town of Nottingham (hosted applicant counsel letter)", "url": "https://www.nottingham-nh.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3611/f/pages/pb_case_26-009_pcc_nottingham_business_park_llc_-_145_old_turnpike_rd_-_letter_to_withdraw_application_5-27-26.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Coverage reached only through links inside one retrieved article, because no broad discovery sweep was completed." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Nottingham voters overwhelmingly approve moratorium on data centers", "publisher": "Vermont Public / NHPR", "url": "https://www.vermontpublic.org/2026-09-09/nottingham-voters-approve-moratorium-data-centers-nh-newhampshire", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "hold", "coverage_label": "Nothing published yet, on purpose", "coverage_summary": "Leads were found and read, and none of them cleared the bar to publish.", "coverage_not_a_census": "Nothing published here does not mean there are no data centers in the state. The reason and the date we look again are below.", "coverage_basis": "not-applicable", "next_review": "2026-12-13", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "Held states are looked at again 90 days after the hold was last reviewed on 2026-09-14.", "review_rules": [ "Held states are looked at again 90 days after the hold was last reviewed on 2026-09-14." ], "hold_reasons": [ "The only lead was an early conversation about a possible project, not a project we can name and count.", "The only lead was a power study with no named data-center project attached to it." ], "distinct_sources": 0, "distinct_counties": 0, "multi_source_records": 0 }, { "name": "New Jersey", "abbr": "NJ", "region": "Northeast", "slug": "new-jersey", "url": "/new-jersey/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-11" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The November 12, 2025 board book with the CoreWeave award memo returned unavailable during review, so the project description, address and capital investment in the memo were not read.", "No statewide list of data center incentive recipients or sales-tax exemption certificates was found." ], "sources": [ { "title": "NJEDA Board book, December 15, 2025 (includes the minutes of the November 12, 2025 board meeting)", "publisher": "New Jersey Economic Development Authority", "url": "https://www.njeda.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/December-15-2025-EDA-Board-book.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Next New Jersey Program - AI program page", "publisher": "New Jersey Economic Development Authority", "url": "https://www.njeda.gov/nextnjai/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "NJEDA website search results for CoreWeave", "publisher": "New Jersey Economic Development Authority", "url": "https://www.njeda.gov/?s=CoreWeave", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The BPU Public Access docket portal could not be retrieved during review, so no utility tariff filing, special contract or large-load interconnection record was read.", "No PJM or utility large-load queue record was examined for New Jersey." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Assembly Appropriations Committee Statement to Assembly, No. 796 [First Reprint], dated March 19, 2026", "publisher": "New Jersey Legislature", "url": "https://pub.njleg.gov/Bills/2026/A1000/796_S2.PDF", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "NJ Board of Public Utilities newsroom page", "publisher": "New Jersey Board of Public Utilities", "url": "https://www.nj.gov/bpu/newsroom/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No air, water, stormwater or building permit record was retrieved directly from a government database for any New Jersey data center.", "Municipal building and grading permits were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "NJDEP DataMiner - Air Quality Permitting and Reporting category", "publisher": "New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection", "url": "https://njems.nj.gov/DataMiner/Search/SearchByCategory?isExternal=y&getCategory=y&catName=Air+Quality+Permitting+and+Reporting", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Millville's ordinance file and Kenilworth's Planning Board minutes did not respond during review or refused connections.", "No assessor, tax map or GIS parcel record was queried for any New Jersey site.", "Municipalities named in news coverage as adopting bans (Harrison Township, Waterford Township, Phillipsburg, Hardyston) were not researched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "City of Vineland Planning Board notice of special meeting - DataOne USA LLC (posted March 16, 2026)", "publisher": "City of Vineland Planning Board", "url": "https://www.vinelandcity.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/DataOne-Notice-of-Public-Hearing-To-Post-3.16.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City of Vineland Planning Board notice of special meeting postponement - DataOne USA LLC (posted March 23, 2026)", "publisher": "City of Vineland Planning Board", "url": "https://www.vinelandcity.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/POSTPONEMENT-of-Planning-Board-Special-Meeting-on-3-26-2026-Post-3.23.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City of Vineland Planning Board legal notice for the August 17, 2026 meeting - Data One Vineland, LLC (posted August 7, 2026)", "publisher": "City of Vineland Planning Board", "url": "https://www.vinelandcity.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Data-One-Meeting-Post-8.7.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The Vineland council agenda archive did not respond during review, so the January 2026 PILOT ordinance and financial agreement text were not read.", "No county or state abatement registry was searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Local Finance Notice 2026-13: Data Centers", "publisher": "New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, Division of Local Government Services", "url": "https://www.nj.gov/dca/dlgs/lfns/2026/2026-13.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City of Vineland Resolution No. 2026-26", "publisher": "City of Vineland", "url": "https://bidinfo.vinelandcity.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/R2026-26.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City of Vineland council agenda archive for 2026", "publisher": "City of Vineland", "url": "http://councils.vinelandcity.org/ArchiveCouncil/Agendas/2026%20council%20agendas/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Oracle and Apple site-level disclosure pages were not retrieved.", "Equinix NY4 and other New York-metro IBXs in New Jersey, and QTS East Windsor, were seen in navigation but not examined." ], "sources": [ { "title": "CoreSite NY2 - New Jersey data center page", "publisher": "CoreSite", "url": "https://coresite.com/data-center/ny2-secaucus-nj", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "CyrusOne Somerset, NJ: NYM1 page", "publisher": "CyrusOne", "url": "https://www.cyrusone.com/data-centers/north-america/somerset-nj", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "CyrusOne Totowa, NJ: NYM2 page", "publisher": "CyrusOne", "url": "https://www.cyrusone.com/data-centers/north-america/totowa-nj-nym2", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Directory listings such as Data Center Map, Baxtel and datacenters.com were not used, so facilities absent from Compute Atlas and from the operator pages I read are not represented." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas snapshot extract for New Jersey (13 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Neither the Millville nor the Andover ordinance was retrieved from the municipality itself.", "The Superior Court complaint in the Andover litigation was not located.", "No systematic sweep of withdrawn or renamed New Jersey colocation facilities was performed." ], "sources": [ { "title": "News 12 New Jersey: Millville bans data centers, killing largest proposed facility in New Jersey history", "publisher": "News 12 New Jersey", "url": "https://newjersey.news12.com/2026/05/20/millville-bans-data-centers-killing-largest-proposed-facility-in-new-jersey-history/77eDMHsKNvb6HkPeGLzLLN", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "NJ 101.5: Millville joins NJ local bans on AI data centers, as Kenilworth plan rankles locals", "publisher": "NJ 101.5", "url": "https://nj1015.com/new-jersey-ai-data-center-bans/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Township Journal: Developer sues Andover over data center ban", "publisher": "Township Journal (Straus News)", "url": "https://www.townshipjournal.com/news/local-news/developer-sues-andover-over-data-center-ban-HK6048119", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "ROI-NJ and Data Center Dynamics could not be retrieved during review." ], "sources": [ { "title": "GovTech (NJ.com via Tribune Content Agency): Old New Jersey airport could house new AI data center", "publisher": "GovTech / NJ.com", "url": "https://www.govtech.com/artificial-intelligence/old-new-jersey-airport-could-house-new-ai-data-center", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Real Estate NJ: CoreWeave begins $1.8 billion data center project in Kenilworth, landing first award under new EDA tax credit program", "publisher": "Real Estate NJ", "url": "https://re-nj.com/coreweave-begins-1-8-billion-data-center-project-in-kenilworth-landing-first-award-under-new-eda-tax-credit-program/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "WHYY: Vineland residents are protesting AI data center as concerns mount over noise and emissions", "publisher": "WHYY", "url": "https://whyy.org/articles/data-center-artificial-intelligence-vineland-new-jersey/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-13", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 3, "distinct_counties": 0, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "New Mexico", "abbr": "NM", "region": "West", "slug": "new-mexico", "url": "/new-mexico/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-11" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "New Mexico Economic Development Department programs, LEDA awards and any state data center tax provision were not searched after the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep.", "The county's Project Jupiter Companies' Commitments page returned navigation text only." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Doña Ana County news release: County approves historic IRB for $165 billion \"Project Jupiter\" data-center campus", "publisher": "Doña Ana County", "url": "https://www.donaana.gov/news_detail_T7_R35.php", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Doña Ana County Economic Development Projects page (Project Jupiter document list and IRB life cycle)", "publisher": "Doña Ana County", "url": "https://www.donaana.gov/about_us/economic_development_projects.php", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Doña Ana County — Project Jupiter project page", "publisher": "Doña Ana County", "url": "https://www.donaana.gov/about_us/project_jupiter.php", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "PRC e-docket unreachable, so no docket numbers, large-load tariff, special contract or interconnection record was captured for Meta Los Lunas, Project Jupiter or any other site.", "El Paso Electric's service territory covers the Project Jupiter area; no EPE filing was examined." ], "sources": [ { "title": "New Mexico Public Regulation Commission website", "publisher": "New Mexico Public Regulation Commission", "url": "https://www.prc.nm.gov/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "New Mexico PRC electronic docket system (edocket.nmprc.state.nm.us)", "publisher": "New Mexico Public Regulation Commission", "url": "https://edocket.nmprc.state.nm.us/", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "New Mexico PRC electronic docket system (edocket.prc.nm.gov)", "publisher": "New Mexico Public Regulation Commission", "url": "https://edocket.prc.nm.gov/", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The 10883 draft permit, statement of basis, modeling review and administrative record were not yet reviewed directly.", "Water rights, discharge permit and construction stormwater notices were not reviewed for any site.", "No building or grading permits were obtained from any county or municipality." ], "sources": [ { "title": "NMED public notice page: Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC – YGI Microgrid — (Project Jupiter)", "publisher": "New Mexico Environment Department", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/public-notices/yucca-growth-infrastructure-llc-ygi-microgrid/", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "NMED Amended Notice of Public Hearing, AQB 26-57(P): application of Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC for air quality permit No. NSR 10883", "publisher": "New Mexico Environment Department, Office of the Secretary", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-08-12-AQB-26-57-Amended-Notice-of-Hearing-English-filed.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "NMED Public Notices portal (air quality and water permit notices listed by county)", "publisher": "New Mexico Environment Department", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/public-notices/", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Village of Los Lunas agenda packets and IRB ordinance numbers were not retrieved (host did not respond during review and then refused the connection).", "Chaves County's website could not be retrieved during review, so the Zenith Volts special use permit file was not read.", "No assessor or GIS parcel record was retrieved for any New Mexico site." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Doña Ana County news release: County Commissioners Adopt Resolution on Project Jupiter Communications", "publisher": "Doña Ana County", "url": "https://www.donaana.gov/news_detail_T7_R102.php", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Village of Los Lunas Council agenda packet, December 5, 2024", "publisher": "Village of Los Lunas", "url": "https://www.loslunasnm.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12052024-1219", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The Greater Kudu IRB ordinance, lease and PILOT terms were not obtained from the village.", "The Project Jupiter LEDA ordinances (368-2025, 369-2025), Resolution 2025-99, the MOU and the three executed IRB series documents were listed but not yet reviewed directly.", "The broad discovery sweep for the Greater Kudu ordinance could not be run because the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Doña Ana County Ordinance No. 367-2025 authorizing Taxable Industrial Revenue Bonds (Project Jupiter) Series 2025A, 2025B and 2025C", "publisher": "Doña Ana County", "url": "https://www.donaana.gov/Documents/About%20Us/Economic%20Development%20Projects/Ordinance%20No.%20367-2025%20IRB%20Adoption_Executed%26Recorded.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Doña Ana County Resolution No. 2025-96 declaring intent to consider Project Jupiter industrial revenue bond ordinances", "publisher": "Doña Ana County", "url": "https://www.donaana.gov/Documents/About%20Us/Economic%20Development%20Projects/Resolution%20No.%202025-96%20IRB%20Inducement%20Resolution.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google and Apple location pages were not checked for New Mexico.", "Centersquare's and Connect Data Centers' own pages were not yet reviewed directly.", "No SEC full-text search was possible for the Lea County land option." ], "sources": [ { "title": "New ERA Energy & Digital, Inc. Form 8-K exhibit 99.1, press release dated April 14, 2026 (SEC EDGAR)", "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2028336/000121390026043542/ea028610401ex99-1.htm", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "New ERA Energy & Digital, Inc. Form 8-K dated December 19, 2025, items 1.01, 2.01 and 9.01 (SEC EDGAR)", "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2028336/000121390025125498/ea0270672-8k_newera.htm", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Baxtel, PeeringDB and Server Country listings cited by the extract were not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas facilities extract for New Mexico (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Source New Mexico and Data Center Dynamics reports were blocked by an interstitial challenge (unavailable during review).", "No moratorium ordinance text, State Land Office decision letter or university statement was retrieved.", "Historic renames of the Albuquerque colocation facilities were not confirmed against any primary record." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Albuquerque Journal: NM land commissioner rejects Project Jupiter pipeline request for second time", "publisher": "Albuquerque Journal", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/land-commissioner-nixes-project-jupiter-pipeline-for-second-time/3083075", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Albuquerque Journal: Spaceport America in talks with Green Data for data center project in Sierra County", "publisher": "Albuquerque Journal", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/spaceport-america-data-center-proposal-sparks-curiosity/3084192", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Albuquerque Journal: Sierra County enacts 18-month data center moratorium in surprise vote", "publisher": "Albuquerque Journal", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/sierra-county-enacts-18-month-data-center-moratorium/3086595", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "El Paso Matters could not be retrieved during review.", "Silver City Daily Press legal notices were not read directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Roswell-Chaves County Economic Development Corporation news item: County approves permit for data center, solar facility", "publisher": "Roswell-Chaves County Economic Development Corporation", "url": "https://www.chavescounty.net/news/p/item/64481/county-approves-permit-for-data-center-solar-facility", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Albuquerque Journal: New Mexico Supreme Court pauses Project Jupiter air permit proceedings", "publisher": "Albuquerque Journal", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/nm-supreme-court-pauses-project-jupiter-air-permit/3108233", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Albuquerque Journal: Project Jupiter lawsuit to proceed in Doña Ana County, judge orders review of data center incentives", "publisher": "Albuquerque Journal", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/judge-project-jupiter-lawsuit-to-proceed/3007891", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-11", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-12.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-12." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 3, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "New York", "abbr": "NY", "region": "Northeast", "slug": "new-york", "url": "/new-york/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Empire State Development and NYSERDA award databases were not searched.", "No other county or city IDA project library was opened; only GCEDC was worked.", "The Department of Taxation and Finance publishes no Internet data center certificate list to cross-check." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Public Hearing Set for STREAM US Data Centers Project", "publisher": "Genesee County Economic Development Center", "url": "https://www.gcedc.com/news/article/current/2026/03/05/100160/public-hearing-set-for-stream-us-data-centers-project", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Executive Order No. 62 - Establishing a Temporary Moratorium on Data Centers in New York", "publisher": "Office of the Governor of New York State", "url": "https://www.governor.ny.gov/executive-order/no-62-establishing-temporary-moratorium-data-centers-new-york-while-state-develops", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "TSB-M-00(7)S - Sales and Use Tax Exemptions for Operators of Internet Data Centers (Web Hosting)", "publisher": "New York State Department of Taxation and Finance", "url": "https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/memos/sales/m00_7s.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The NYISO large load interconnection queue itself was not retrieved, so none of the 48 queued projects could be tied to a named site.", "Individual party comments filed in Case 26-E-0045 were not read, and the DPS document search system was not worked project by project.", "No utility large-load tariff filing or electric service agreement was retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Case 26-E-0045 - Order Instituting Proceeding and Soliciting Comments (Interconnection Reforms for Large Loads)", "publisher": "New York State Public Service Commission", "url": "https://documents.dps.ny.gov/public/Common/ViewDoc.aspx?DocRefId=%7BB040539C-0000-CB26-AEB3-8C865EF3724D%7D&DocTitle=Order+Instituting+Proceeding+and+Soliciting+Comments", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Fortistar: Comments due on Fortistar North Tonawanda and Digihost International petition to transfer interest in a 55-megawatt natural gas-fired cogeneration facility", "publisher": "New York State Department of Public Service", "url": "https://dps.ny.gov/event/fortistar-comments-due-fortistar-north-tonawanda-and-digihost-international-petition-transfer", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The DEC air permit (DART) database was not searched for data center emergency generator permits.", "SPDES and stormwater construction general permit notices were not searched.", "No municipal building or grading permit was retrieved for any research lead." ], "sources": [ { "title": "STREAM U.S. Data Centers LLC - SEQR Development Application, Section II Project Description (2/18/2026)", "publisher": "Genesee County Economic Development Center", "url": "https://www.gcedc.com/file-library/100319/STREAMUSDataCentersLLC.SEQRDevelopmentApplication.2.18.26.II.ProjectDescription.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Proposed Cleanup - Riverview Innovation & Technology Campus Site (Tonawanda), site #C915353", "publisher": "New York State Department of Environmental Conservation", "url": "https://dec.ny.gov/get-involved/events/2024/7/proposed-cleanup-riverview-innovation-technology-campus-site-tonawanda-comment-deadline", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Brownfield Applications - The Remington Sites (German Flatts) Comment Deadline", "publisher": "New York State Department of Environmental Conservation", "url": "https://dec.ny.gov/get-involved/events/2026/5/brownfield-applications-the-remington-sites-german-flatts-comment-deadline", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No town or county planning file naming an individual data center applicant was located.", "The City of Niagara Falls council agenda and the June 2026 settlement and rezoning documents were not yet reviewed directly.", "Town of Alabama, Town of Tonawanda, Town of Massena, City of Albany and Village of Ilion planning files were not retrieved.", "No county assessor system was worked; the statewide parcel layer alone could not tie a parcel to an operator." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Town of Lysander - Data Center Moratorium Updates (Local Law #4 of 2026)", "publisher": "Town of Lysander, Office of the Supervisor", "url": "https://townoflysander.org/sites/default/files/2026-05/data_center_moratorium_updates.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Onondaga County Planning Board draft meeting minutes, June 3, 2026", "publisher": "Onondaga County Planning Board", "url": "https://onondaga.gov/planning/wp-content/uploads/sites/260/2026/06/Draft-Minutes-06-03-26.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Onondaga County Planning Board meeting agenda, March 11, 2026", "publisher": "Onondaga County Planning Board", "url": "https://onondaga.gov/planning/wp-content/uploads/sites/260/2026/03/Web-Agenda-03-11-26.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No executed PILOT, host community benefit or development agreement was opened; only the IDA's summary of proposed terms.", "The GCEDC initial resolution PDF is a scanned image and yielded no extractable text.", "The 88-page Niagara Falls settlement agreement was not located.", "No other county IDA abatement file was searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "GCEDC Opportunity Summary - STREAM U.S. Data Centers, LLC (created 1/30/2026)", "publisher": "Genesee County Economic Development Center", "url": "https://www.gcedc.com/file-library/100319/STREAMUSDataCentersLLC.ProjectSummary.1.30.26.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle and Apple location pages were not checked for New York sites.", "Digital Realty, CoreSite, Equinix, Sabey, TierPoint, Netrality, DataBank and Lumen New York facility pages were not yet reviewed directly.", "The H5 Data Centers Buffalo page returned a redirect that was not followed." ], "sources": [ { "title": "BBCMS Mortgage Trust 2023-C22 Free Writing Prospectus (60 Hudson Street collateral)", "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1994342/000153949723001716/n3791_x3-ts.htm", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Governor Hochul Announces Empire AI Beta Fully Online as Federal Government Takes Inspiration From New York", "publisher": "Office of the Governor of New York State", "url": "https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-empire-ai-beta-fully-online-federal-government-takes-inspiration-new", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Eighteen Compute Atlas New York records were read but not individually worked into research leads.", "No commercial directory (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, Cloudscene, PeeringDB) was used." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for New York (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The 2022 DEC Title V denial for Greenidge was retrieved, but the later Greenidge agreement referenced by DEC in November 2025 was not.", "No archived or withdrawn municipal application file was retrieved for any research lead.", "Earlier New York closures and demolitions of data centers were not searched at all." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Statement Regarding STREAM U.S. Data Centers (rescission of the Consistency Determination and Final Resolution)", "publisher": "Genesee County Economic Development Center", "url": "https://www.gcedc.com/news/article/current/2025/09/18/100144/statement-regarding-stream-u.s.-data-centers", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Six news sources were recorded from search results without being opened.", "No advocacy or research tracker (for example the Rockefeller Institute moratorium tracker) was opened, although it appeared repeatedly in results." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data center project at former Tonawanda Coke site 'on hold'", "publisher": "Buffalo Toronto Public Media", "url": "https://www.btpm.org/local/2026-06-03/data-center-project-at-former-tonawanda-coke-site-on-hold", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "250,000-Square-Foot AI Data Center Planned for Ilion's Remington Site C", "publisher": "WKTV", "url": "https://www.wktv.com/news/focus-economy/250-000-square-foot-ai-data-center-planned-for-ilions-remington-site-c/article_ebf3d79e-aeb4-4033-8b0c-558a3749c42e.html", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Possible massive data center in Lysander faces community opposition, town attorney to draft moratorium", "publisher": "Eagle News Online / Baldwinsville Messenger", "url": "https://www.eaglenewsonline.com/baldwinsville_messenger/possible-massive-data-center-in-lysander-faces-community-opposition-town-attorney-to-draft-moratorium/article_635b1885-9f97-4747-bdf4-604d468fc641.html", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 3, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "North Carolina", "abbr": "NC", "region": "South", "slug": "north-carolina", "url": "/north-carolina/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No list of qualifying or eligible data centers, certificate numbers or recipient companies was found.", "County-level economic development announcements were not swept; the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before this family could be pursued further." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data Centers Sales & Use Tax Exemptions", "publisher": "Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina", "url": "https://edpnc.com/incentives/data-centers-sales-use-tax-exemptions/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "NCUC docket portal, recent filings page and portal root could not be retrieved during review; no docket, order, tariff or electric service agreement was read from the commission itself.", "The Microsoft Person County large-load contract is reported to be filed under seal at NCUC and no capacity is public.", "No Duke Energy large-load tariff filing or integrated resource plan was read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Core Scientific, Inc. Form 8-K Exhibit 99.2, Supplemental Information dated April 21, 2026", "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001839341/000119312526165121/d149019dex992.htm", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Duke Energy Corporation and Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC Form 8-K, event date July 2, 2026", "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001326160/000110465926080476/tm2619723d1_8k.htm", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The draft permits, permit reviews, permit applications and community engagement reports referenced by the DEQ notice were not reached; the division page carries no direct link to them and the AccessDEQ portal and permitted facility GIS search were not used.", "No water withdrawal, stormwater or construction general permit notices were searched for any North Carolina data center." ], "sources": [ { "title": "DEQ announces joint public hearing on Amazon data center and Duke Energy air quality permits in Richmond County", "publisher": "North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Air Quality", "url": "https://www.deq.nc.gov/news/press-releases/2026/06/26/deq-announces-joint-public-hearing-amazon-data-center-and-duke-energy-air-quality-permits-richmond", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Division of Air Quality", "publisher": "North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://www.deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/air-quality", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "City of Raleigh and City of Statesville websites could not be retrieved during review, so no rezoning or site plan case file was read for Radius DC Raleigh I or Compass Statesville.", "No county record was obtained for the Charlotte, Mecklenburg, Iredell, Stokes, Forsyth, Rowan, Vance, Cumberland, Edgecombe, Halifax, Lee or Person County proposals.", "No assessor parcel record was retrieved for any research lead other than Meta Forest City.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for this state, so county case pages could only be reached by guessing domains." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Petition for Annexation into Raleigh City Limits — Radius DC Raleigh I (AX-009-26)", "publisher": "City of Raleigh Planning and Development Department", "url": "https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/AX-009-26.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Rutherford County GIS parcel record for PIN 1558722267", "publisher": "Rutherford County GIS", "url": "https://gis.rutherfordcountync.gov/server/rest/services/Addressing/MapServer/2/query?where=PIN%3D%271558722267%27&outFields=*&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Joint statement on Microsoft data center development in Catawba County", "publisher": "Catawba County, North Carolina", "url": "https://www.catawbacountync.gov/news/joint-statement-on-microsoft-data-center-development-in-catawba-county/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No JDIG award document, county incentive agreement or local tax abatement agreement naming a data center was read.", "Richmond County's reported local tax breaks for the Amazon campus were not confirmed against a county agreement." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Grants & Incentives", "publisher": "North Carolina Department of Commerce", "url": "https://www.commerce.nc.gov/grants-incentives", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Meta's Forest City info sheet was not retrieved (unavailable during review).", "Apple, Microsoft, Oracle and the colocation operators' own pages were not yet reviewed directly; those research leads rest on the dataset extract or on county records." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Lenoir, North Carolina — Google Data Centers", "publisher": "Google", "url": "https://datacenters.google/locations/lenoir-north-carolina/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Announcing NC-1: New Flagship Data Center in North Carolina", "publisher": "WhiteFiber", "url": "https://www.whitefiber.com/blog/nc-1-data-center", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No unlicensed directory listing was consulted for North Carolina." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for North Carolina", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Only one withdrawal account (the Rural Hall planning board recommendation) was retrieved directly; the other cancellations rest on the dataset extract.", "No county or town case file confirming any withdrawal was read.", "No sweep was made for North Carolina data center closures or demolitions." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Planning board recommends denying rezoning for proposed Rural Hall data center", "publisher": "WFDD", "url": "https://www.wfdd.org/politics-government/2026-06-11/planning-board-recommends-denying-rezoning-for-proposed-rural-hall-data-center", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep during North Carolina, so news discovery for the remaining leads relied on the dataset's own source lists." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Amazon's Richmond County data center gets green light on air quality permits", "publisher": "WUNC", "url": "https://www.wunc.org/2026-08-29/amazons-richmond-county-data-center-gets-green-light-on-air-quality-permits", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 1, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 0 }, { "name": "North Dakota", "abbr": "ND", "region": "Midwest", "slug": "north-dakota", "url": "/north-dakota/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No North Dakota Department of Commerce record was opened.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for North Dakota, so this family was worked only by direct URL fetches." ], "sources": [ { "title": "North Dakota Office of State Tax Commissioner", "publisher": "North Dakota Office of State Tax Commissioner", "url": "https://www.tax.nd.gov/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No PSC docket, order or siting case was read.", "No electric cooperative or municipal utility large-load record was located; Applied Digital's energy services agreement for Jamestown is known only from its SEC filing." ], "sources": [ { "title": "North Dakota Public Service Commission", "publisher": "North Dakota Public Service Commission", "url": "https://psc.nd.gov/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "North Dakota PSC case search application", "publisher": "North Dakota Public Service Commission", "url": "https://apps.psc.nd.gov/cases/pscasesearch", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The NDDEQ permit portal itself was not yet reviewed directly and issued permits were not searched.", "Water appropriation permits from the State Water Commission, which matter for these campuses, were not searched at all." ], "sources": [ { "title": "NDDEQ Air Quality permits to construct in progress", "publisher": "North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://deq.nd.gov/aq/permitting/PTCInProgress.aspx", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "NDDEQ Air Quality public comment opportunities", "publisher": "North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://deq.nd.gov/aq/PublicCom.aspx", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "NDDEQ Division of Air Quality", "publisher": "North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://deq.nd.gov/AQ/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Cass County (Polaris Forge 2), Dickey County (Polaris Forge 1), Oliver County (Polaris Forge 3), Stutsman County (Jamestown), Cavalier County (Nekoma) and Williams County records were all unread.", "No county assessor or GIS parcel record was opened, so no research lead carries a parcel identifier." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Oliver County, North Dakota official website (attempted)", "publisher": "Oliver County, North Dakota", "url": "https://www.olivercountynd.com/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The Cavalier County Job Development Authority agreements were not retrieved.", "No North Dakota property tax exemption, payment-in-lieu or tax increment record was located for any research lead." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Burgum: Bitzero signs agreement to acquire Nekoma pyramid, develop it into highly secure data center", "publisher": "North Dakota Office of the Governor", "url": "https://www.governor.nd.gov/news/burgum-bitzero-signs-agreement-acquire-nekoma-pyramid-develop-it-highly-secure-data-center", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Applied Digital's corporate site links no per-site North Dakota facility page from its landing view.", "Atlas Power, Bitzero, Enerfore and Core Scientific disclosures were not yet reviewed directly.", "Only the most recent 10-Q of each filer was read; earlier filings, 8-Ks and exhibits were not." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Applied Digital Corporation Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended February 28, 2026", "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144879/000114487926000030/apld-20260228.htm", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2026", "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001844971/000162828026035547/gree-20260331.htm", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No directory listing was opened." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for North Dakota (9 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Morton County new rules for future data centers, seen only as a headline link, were not yet reviewed directly.", "No archived page, rename or acquisition history was researched; Applied Digital's Jamestown and Ellendale hosting sites plainly predate the Polaris Forge branding but that history was not traced." ], "sources": [ { "title": "KFYR/KMOT: Applied Digital submits rezoning application for data center in Oliver County", "publisher": "KFYR-TV", "url": "https://www.kfyrtv.com/2026/05/05/applied-digital-submits-rezoning-application-data-center-oliver-county/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No other North Dakota news source was opened." ], "sources": [ { "title": "KFYR/KUMV: Williams County Commissioners approve conditional use permit for new data center", "publisher": "KFYR-TV", "url": "https://www.kfyrtv.com/2025/02/04/williams-county-commissioners-approve-conditional-use-permit-new-data-center/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 1, "distinct_counties": 0, "multi_source_records": 0 }, { "name": "Ohio", "abbr": "OH", "region": "Midwest", "slug": "ohio", "url": "/ohio/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 10, "facility_count": 4, "project_discovery_count": 9, "facility_discovery_count": 26, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 35, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No index page listing Ohio Tax Credit Authority minutes was found; five probed 2026 minute URLs all returned unavailable during review, so 2026 exemption approvals were not enumerated.", "Minutes before October 2025 were not retrieved, so earlier exemption recipients (including the hyperscaler agreements referenced in secondary coverage) are unknown from primary records here.", "The governor's announcement pausing new data center exemptions returned unavailable during review on fetch, so the pause's exact scope and effective dates were not read.", "Ohio law makes applicant financial statements non-public, so the exemption agreements themselves were not sought." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ohio Tax Credit Authority meeting minutes, October 27, 2025", "publisher": "Ohio Department of Development / Ohio Tax Credit Authority", "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/development.ohio.gov/business/stateincentives/Meeting_Minutes_10.27.2025.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Ohio Tax Credit Authority meeting minutes — additional 2026 meeting dates", "publisher": "Ohio Department of Development / Ohio Tax Credit Authority", "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/development.ohio.gov/business/stateincentives/Meeting_Minutes_04.27.2026.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Governor DeWine Announces Pause of Data Center Tax Exemption", "publisher": "Office of the Governor of Ohio", "url": "https://governor.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/governor/media/news-and-media/governor-dewine-announces-pause-of-data-center-tax-exemption", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The DIS document-image endpoint (ViewImage.aspx) is blocked by a web application firewall, so no PUCO or OPSB filing PDF could be read; only docket cards were available.", "AEP Ohio's 09/11/2025 correspondence on signing up new Schedule DCT customers was identified on the docket card but could not be opened, so no DCT customer list was obtained.", "No customer-specific electric service agreement, large-load interconnection queue or PJM new-service-request record was reached for any Ohio site.", "Dockets for AES Ohio, Duke Energy Ohio and FirstEnergy's Ohio utilities were not searched, so the AWS Sidney (Project Galaxy) AES Ohio filings referenced in the Compute Atlas extract were not examined." ], "sources": [ { "title": "PUCO Docketing Information System case record 24-0508-EL-ATA (Ohio Power Company data center tariff)", "publisher": "Public Utilities Commission of Ohio", "url": "https://dis.puc.state.oh.us/CaseRecord.aspx?CaseNo=24-0508-EL-ATA", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "PUCO Docketing Information System case record 25-0188-EL-BGN (Will-Power OH, LLC)", "publisher": "Ohio Power Siting Board", "url": "https://dis.puc.state.oh.us/CaseRecord.aspx?CaseNo=25-0188-EL-BGN", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "PUCO Docketing Information System case record 25-0185-EL-BLN (Will-Power OH, LLC)", "publisher": "Ohio Power Siting Board", "url": "https://dis.puc.state.oh.us/CaseRecord.aspx?CaseNo=25-0185-EL-BGN", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Ohio EPA's eDocument Search could not be queried, so no permit-to-install, permit-to-install-and-operate or Title V permit number was captured for any Ohio research lead; every generator and fuel-cell figure in the current research record is from a city notice or the licensed dataset, not from a permit.", "The Environmental Review Appeals Commission docket for the Hilliard appeal was not located, so no ERAC case number is recorded.", "NPDES, stormwater construction general permit notices and water-withdrawal records were not searched at all.", "No county or municipal building, grading or generator permit record was retrieved for any Ohio research lead." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ohio EPA Division of Air Pollution Control — Issued Air Permits", "publisher": "Ohio Environmental Protection Agency", "url": "https://epa.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/epa/divisions-and-offices/air-pollution-control/permitting/issued-air-permits", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Ohio EPA eDocument Search", "publisher": "Ohio Environmental Protection Agency", "url": "https://edocpub.epa.ohio.gov/publicportal/edochome.aspx", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Hilliard to appeal EPA fuel cell permit for Amazon site", "publisher": "City of Hilliard, Ohio", "url": "https://hilliardohio.gov/hilliard-to-appeal-epa-fuel-cell-permit-for-amazon-site/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Only three of Ohio's eighty-eight counties were queried. Clark, Wood, Miami, Shelby, Fayette, Clinton, Butler, Stark, Summit, Cuyahoga, Portage, Trumbull, Coshocton, Erie, Delaware, Fairfield, Pike, Scioto, Lawrence, Allen, Van Wert, Monroe, Adams and Preble all have data center activity in the Compute Atlas extract and none of their assessor systems was reached.", "No planning commission, zoning board, city council agenda or minutes document was retrieved for any Ohio jurisdiction; the City of Pataskala's website did not resolve.", "The Licking County owner-name sweep was keyed on operator names, so data center owners holding land under unrelated LLC names in Licking County remain unfound; the MONTAUK query only ran because the abatement sweep surfaced the name by accident.", "Franklin County's 'data center' class sweep does not capture sites under construction that have not yet been reclassified, nor enterprise data centers classed as office or warehouse." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Licking County Auditor parcel query — owner name contains AMAZON", "publisher": "Licking County Auditor / Licking County GIS", "url": "https://gis.lickingcounty.gov/server/rest/services/Auditor/Parcels/FeatureServer/0/query?where=UPPER(OwnerName)%20LIKE%20%27%25AMAZON%25%27&outFields=Parcel,OwnerName,SiteAddress,TaxAcres,GISAcres,LUC,Landuse,Class,Municipality,Township,YearBuilt,MarketImpValue,AbatedImpValue,TIF&returnGeometry=false&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Licking County Auditor parcel query — owner name contains VADATA", "publisher": "Licking County Auditor / Licking County GIS", "url": "https://gis.lickingcounty.gov/server/rest/services/Auditor/Parcels/FeatureServer/0/query?where=UPPER(OwnerName)%20LIKE%20%27%25VADATA%25%27&outFields=Parcel,OwnerName,SiteAddress,TaxAcres,GISAcres,LUC,Landuse,Class,Municipality,Township,YearBuilt,MarketImpValue,AbatedImpValue,TIF&returnGeometry=false&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Licking County Auditor parcel query — owner name contains SIDECAT", "publisher": "Licking County Auditor / Licking County GIS", "url": "https://gis.lickingcounty.gov/server/rest/services/Auditor/Parcels/FeatureServer/0/query?where=UPPER(OwnerName)%20LIKE%20%27%25SIDECAT%25%27&outFields=Parcel,OwnerName,SiteAddress,TaxAcres,GISAcres,LUC,Landuse,Class,Municipality,Township,YearBuilt,MarketImpValue,AbatedImpValue,TIF&returnGeometry=false&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No executed agreement document was retrieved. Community Reinvestment Area agreements, TIF ordinances, development agreements and the New Albany JEDD/JEDZ instruments behind these abatements were not located or read.", "Ohio's annual CRA and TIF reports to the Department of Development, which would name the agreements and their terms, were not searched.", "The Sidney/Shelby County development agreement for the AWS Project Galaxy campus and the Fayette County 30-year CRA exemption referenced in the Compute Atlas extract were not sought.", "Abatement data was gathered only for Licking and Franklin counties." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Licking County Auditor parcel query — parcels carrying an abated improvement value", "publisher": "Licking County Auditor / Licking County GIS", "url": "https://gis.lickingcounty.gov/server/rest/services/Auditor/Parcels/FeatureServer/0/query?where=AbatedImpValue%3E0&outFields=Parcel,OwnerName,SiteAddress,TaxAcres,Landuse,AbatedImpValue,MarketImpValue,TIF,TaxDistrict&returnGeometry=false&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Guessed hyperscaler URLs for Amazon, Meta and Vantage all returned unavailable during review and were not re-searched, so no first-party Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, QTS, STACK, EdgeConneX, Aligned or Vantage location page was read for Ohio.", "Colocation operators present in Ohio but not checked include Expedient, H5, CyrusOne, DataBank, Flexential, T5, Iron Mountain, Ark Data Centers, Racksquared and DataYard.", "No operator sustainability, investor or SEC material was examined." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Socrates Power Solution Facilities", "publisher": "Williams Companies", "url": "https://www.williams.com/expansion-project/socrates-power-solution-facilities/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Cologix Columbus data centers", "publisher": "Cologix", "url": "https://www.cologix.com/data-centers/columbus/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Roughly ninety Compute Atlas Ohio records were read but not turned into research leads, including large and contested projects such as AWS Sidney (Project Galaxy), AWS Fayette County, AWS Sprigg Township, AWS Wilmington, AWS Trenton, AWS Perry Township, Aligned Conesville, Aligned NEO-01, Aligned Chillicothe, Stargate Lordstown, the PORTS-Pike technology campus, Bitdeer Clarington and Shalersville, Google's Lima Project BOSC and Franklin Furnace Project Dazzler, Meta Piqua Project Klondike, Vantage OH2 Millersport, QTS Van Wert, CyrusOne New Albany COL-1, MARA Findlay and the Oregon Industrial Park campus. Each would need its own county-level primary record.", "No unlicensed directory (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, Cloudscene, PeeringDB) was consulted at all, so provider-presence and colocation coverage in the current research record is thin.", "FracTracker and other advocacy trackers were not used." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for Ohio (110 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No primary record of any cancellation was obtained. The City of Pataskala's website hostname did not resolve, and the two news reports of the council denial were seen only as search results and not yet reviewed directly.", "No corporate filing, deed or Secretary of State record was used to confirm the Involta-to-Ark rename or the ownership entities behind SI NAL01A ABS LLC, Montauk Innovations LLC, Magellan Enterprises LLC, Sidecat LLC, CLOP Hilliard LLC or Continental Broadband LLC.", "Archived versions of operator and city pages were not consulted, so earlier names, withdrawn phases and superseded capacity claims were not recovered.", "Older Ohio closures and demolitions (pre-2024 colocation consolidations, the DataBank/Involta and Expedient acquisitions listed in the canonical lifecycle-events file) were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Pataskala rejects proposed data center; voters to decide potential ban in November", "publisher": "ABC 6 / WSYX", "url": "https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/pataskala-rejects-proposed-data-center-voters-to-decide-potential-ban-in-november", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Pataskala City Council votes against data center proposal", "publisher": "NBC4 WCMH-TV", "url": "https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/central-ohio-news/datacenters/pataskala-city-council-votes-against-data-center-proposal/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No news article was opened in the current review; all news sources are search-result-only.", "Local reporting on individual county projects (Stark, Portage, Trumbull, Adams, Shelby, Clinton, Butler) was not read, so the discovery pipeline for those counties rests entirely on the Compute Atlas extract." ], "sources": [ { "title": "PUCO orders AEP Ohio to create data center specific tariff", "publisher": "Public Utilities Commission of Ohio", "url": "https://puco.ohio.gov/news/puco-orders-aep-ohio-to-create-data-center-specific-tariff", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "useful", "coverage_label": "Enough to answer questions", "coverage_summary": "Enough sites and public documents here to look something up and get a real answer.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is still not a list of every data center in the state.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2026-09-17", "review_overdue": true, "next_review_reason": "A published reading here has a dated recheck set for 2026-09-17.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 90 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-12.", "2 sources behind a published record changed or are watched at least weekly, so this state is looked at again 7 days after the recorded source check on 2026-09-11.", "5 published readings here are contradicted or out of date, so this state is looked at again 30 days after the recorded claim check on 2026-09-12.", "10 published sites here are still being proposed, approved or built, so this state is looked at again 60 days after the recorded evidence check on 2026-09-12.", "A published reading here has a dated recheck set for 2026-09-17." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 28, "distinct_counties": 4, "multi_source_records": 13 }, { "name": "Oklahoma", "abbr": "OK", "region": "South", "slug": "oklahoma", "url": "/oklahoma/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Oklahoma's statutory data center sales tax incentive and any recipient or certification list were not examined; the only lead to them, a Frontier article, was not yet reviewed directly.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for Oklahoma, so no search engine query could be run for this state; every source was reached by following a Compute Atlas source URL or by constructing an agency URL directly.", "Oklahoma Department of Commerce incentive programme reports, Quality Jobs Program records and the Oklahoma Tax Commission ad valorem exemption reports were not reached." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Meta Breaks Ground on New $1 Billion Data Center in Tulsa", "publisher": "Oklahoma Department of Commerce", "url": "https://www.okcommerce.gov/meta-breaks-ground-on-data-center-in-tulsa/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Google Planning Another Expansion for Pryor Data Center", "publisher": "Oklahoma Department of Commerce", "url": "https://www.okcommerce.gov/google-planning-another-expansion-for-pryor-data-center/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Polaris Technologies, Inc. invests $100M to establish Muskogee's first data center facility", "publisher": "City of Muskogee, Oklahoma", "url": "https://www.muskogeeok.gov/news_detail_T2_R666.php", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Case Processing Online is an Oracle APEX application that returns only a shell to a plain fetch, so no Oklahoma cause number, filing, tariff or order was read.", "No PSO or OG&E large-load tariff, special contract or electric service agreement was obtained.", "The Southwest Power Pool interconnection and large-load queues were not examined at all, so no Oklahoma research lead carries an interconnection figure." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Public Utility Division - Case Public Comments", "publisher": "Oklahoma Corporation Commission", "url": "https://oklahoma.gov/occ/divisions/public-utility/case-public-comments.html", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Case Processing Online", "publisher": "Oklahoma Corporation Commission", "url": "https://case.occ.ok.gov/ords/f?p=1003:202", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "deq.ok.gov failed secure connection certificate verification, so no air permit, permit application, public notice, water or construction permit was read.", "Behind-the-meter generation at Oklahoma data centers, which the Governor's remarks in an operator release describe as enabled by new legislation, could not be checked against any permit.", "No municipal building or grading permit portal was reached for any Oklahoma city." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Air Quality Division permitting", "publisher": "Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://www.deq.ok.gov/air-quality-division/", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Only one city, Piedmont, was worked at the municipal level. Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Stillwater, Muskogee, Owasso, Claremore, Coweta, Inola, Lawton and Alva were not.", "No county assessor or GIS parcel record was opened; the parcel account numbers recorded come from a PUD design statement, not from the assessor.", "The Piedmont planning agenda packet, annexation petition and conceptual site plan published on the same portal were not yet reviewed directly.", "Whether either Piedmont PUD was approved by the city council is not established; no minutes or approving ordinance was found." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data Center Transparency Portal", "publisher": "City of Piedmont, Oklahoma", "url": "http://www.piedmont-ok.gov/323/Data-Center-Transparency-Portal", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Ordinance No. 2026-003 establishing the Industrial Technology (IT) Zoning District", "publisher": "City of Piedmont, Oklahoma", "url": "http://www.piedmont-ok.gov/DocumentCenter/View/950/Ordinance-2026-003", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "PUD Design Statement for Project Open Sky", "publisher": "City of Piedmont, Oklahoma", "url": "http://www.piedmont-ok.gov/DocumentCenter/View/947/Project-Open-Sky---PUD", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No statewide Oklahoma registry of local development agreements or abatements was located, so this family cannot be swept the way Texas can.", "The Springboard Tax Incentive Agreement itself is referenced in the plan with a blank date and was not obtained, so no executed agreement is in evidence.", "Five-year ad valorem manufacturing exemption records held by the Oklahoma Tax Commission were not reached." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Springboard Data Center Economic Development Project Plan, a Project Plan under the Oklahoma Local Development Act, 62 O.S. §§ 850-869", "publisher": "Board of County Commissioners of Muskogee County, Oklahoma", "url": "https://muskogee.okcounties.org/media/view/springboard_data_data_center_project_plan_6-30-25_2969.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Oracle location pages were not yet reviewed directly for Oklahoma.", "No colocation operator page (TierPoint, TulsaConnect, RACK59, ValorC3, Isocentric, OCOSA) was opened.", "Only one SEC filing was retrieved; IREN, Potentia and Jericho Energy Ventures filings naming Oklahoma sites were not." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Comstock Holding Companies, Inc. Form 8-K exhibit EX-99.1 - Comstock Announces Oklahoma Data Center Joint Venture with Jericho", "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001299969/000162828026042075/jerichojvpr-finalfor8xk.htm", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, Cloudscene and PeeringDB were not consulted.", "dcmap.us is cited by several Compute Atlas Oklahoma records and was not yet reviewed directly.", "About 16 Oklahoma records, mostly Tulsa and Oklahoma City colocation halls, were read but not worked up as research leads." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas - Oklahoma extract (46 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No primary cancellation, withdrawal or rescission record was obtained for any of the three; all three withdrawals rest on the dataset alone.", "No archived operator page, acquisition filing or demolition record was searched for Oklahoma.", "Renames and acquisitions were not systematically checked; the Core Scientific acquisition of Polaris DS LLC was found incidentally and remains unresolved against the Polaris Technologies facility." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Northern Data to Build North American Headquarters at MidAmerica Industrial Park", "publisher": "Oklahoma Department of Commerce", "url": "https://www.okcommerce.gov/northern-data-to-build-north-american-headquarters-at-midamerica-industrial-park/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Oklahoma news source was opened at all.", "Local reporting on the Piedmont, Stillwater, Owasso and Coweta projects, which would carry hearing dates and vote outcomes, was not reached." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Oklahoma lawmakers tried to cut a costly data-center incentive, but gave Google a break", "publisher": "The Frontier", "url": "https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/oklahoma-lawmakers-tried-to-cut-a-costly-incentive-for-data-centers-but-gave-google-a-break/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 1, "distinct_counties": 0, "multi_source_records": 0 }, { "name": "Oregon", "abbr": "OR", "region": "West", "slug": "oregon", "url": "/oregon/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No current Oregon Department of Revenue enterprise zone or SIP annual report was located; the Business Oregon project list read here is from 2019 and the SIP worksheet from 2023.", "Individual long-term rural enterprise zone certifications (twelve Amazon certifications across Umatilla and Morrow Counties) were not obtained, so the certified facilities cannot be tied to named sites.", "The 2026 enterprise zone data center moratorium under HB 4084 was seen only in search results and no statute or agency text was read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Currently Tax-exempt Energy Projects and Data Centers in Crook, Gilliam, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla and Wasco counties (Business Oregon project list submitted to Senate Labor and Business Committee workgroup)", "publisher": "Business Oregon (Oregon Business Development Department), posted by the Oregon Legislative Assembly", "url": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/committees/slb/WorkgroupDocuments/Arthur%20Fish,%20Business%20Oregon%20(project%20list%20-%209-25-19%20meeting).pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Administration of Data Center Valuation and Property Tax Incentives (Data Center Advisory Committee presentation)", "publisher": "Oregon Department of Energy", "url": "https://www.oregon.gov/energy/get-involved/Documents/09-Mike-Gorman-DCAC.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Public testimony of the City of Prineville on the enterprise zone program, 2023 Regular Session (document 89844)", "publisher": "Oregon Legislative Assembly (OLIS)", "url": "https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Downloads/PublicTestimonyDocument/89844", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Order No. 26-154 itself could not be read: the PDF was too large to retrieve in the current review.", "The PUC eDockets filing index for UM 2377 was not yet reviewed directly, so no utility filing naming a specific large-load customer was examined.", "Umatilla Electric Cooperative and other consumer-owned utilities serving the Boardman, Hermiston and Umatilla campuses are not rate-regulated by the PUC, and no cooperative or Bonneville Power Administration large-load record was examined." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Media Release: Oregon PUC Approves New Rate Structure to Protect Customers Amid Rapid Data Center Growth (Dockets: UM 2377)", "publisher": "Oregon Public Utility Commission", "url": "https://www.oregon.gov/puc/news-events/Documents/PR-202609.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Media Release: Oregon PUC Plans for PGE Rate Filing Decision on July 7 (Dockets: UM 2377)", "publisher": "Oregon Public Utility Commission", "url": "https://www.oregon.gov/puc/news-events/Lists/News%20Releases/Attachments/197/PR-202612.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Large Customer Demand - Utility Regulation", "publisher": "Oregon Public Utility Commission", "url": "https://www.oregon.gov/puc/utilities/pages/large-load.aspx", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No searchable DEQ ACDP permit list or database was reached, so air permits for the Prineville, Hermiston, Umatilla, The Dalles and Hillsboro data centers were not retrieved.", "No water withdrawal, discharge or stormwater construction permit records were searched for any Oregon data center.", "No county or city building or grading permits were retrieved for any research lead." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Response to Request for Additional Information for PDX109 Data Center BAER Assessment, with revised BAER Assessment and ACDP modification application (Form AQ101)", "publisher": "Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (Office of Greenhouse Gas Programs)", "url": "https://www.oregon.gov/deq/ghgp/Documents/BAER-AmazonPDX109AssessmentUpdate.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Tier 4 Streamlined Data Center Permit - Air Quality Permits", "publisher": "Oregon Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://www.oregon.gov/deq/aq/aqpermits/pages/data-center-permit.aspx", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The City of Hillsboro data center page could not be retrieved during review, so the city's own facility list and land use case numbers were not obtained.", "cityofprineville.com returned HTML or JavaScript instead of the requested PDFs, so no Prineville planning commission minutes or enterprise zone document was read.", "No county assessor or GIS parcel record was queried for any Oregon county; every parcel identifier in the current research record comes from a state filing, not an assessor.", "Morrow County, Umatilla County, Crook County and Wasco County land use case files were not searched individually." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Exhibit 08 - Economic Impact Analysis of Prospective Exascale Data Center Development in Morrow County, Oregon (Johnson Economics), Morrow County Planning Commission file", "publisher": "Morrow County, Oregon (Planning Commission)", "url": "https://www.morrowcountyor.gov/sites/default/files/fileattachments/planning_commission/page/16917/exhibit_08_-_economic_impact_analysis.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Data & Energy Storage in Hillsboro: Community Development Code Amendments", "publisher": "City of Hillsboro, Oregon", "url": "https://engage.hillsboro-oregon.gov/data-centers", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City of Prineville Planning Commission regular meeting minutes, 04-26-11", "publisher": "City of Prineville, Oregon", "url": "https://www.cityofprineville.com/sites/default/files/fileattachments/planning_commission/meeting/2203/regular_meeting_minutes_04-26-11.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The executed Morrow County written agreement with Amazon and county Resolution #R-2023-4 were not obtained; they are known only from the state resolution's findings.", "No Umatilla County or Greater Hermiston Enterprise Zone agreement text was retrieved.", "No Crook County or City of Prineville long-term rural enterprise zone agreement with Apple or Meta was retrieved; both city documents attempted returned errors.", "No Port of Umatilla, Port of Morrow or Port of Cascade Locks land or lease agreement was retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Commission Agenda Item 06/02/2023 - Determination of Strategic Investment Program (SIP) Eligibility for Amazon Data Center, with Resolution SIP-23-01 and appended project description", "publisher": "Business Oregon / Oregon Business Development Commission", "url": "https://www.oregon.gov/biz/Publications/Boards/Business%20Oregon%20Commission/2023/AmazonSIPAgendaItem.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Crook County Enterprise Zone - Long-Term Rural Enterprise Zone (City of Prineville community development document)", "publisher": "City of Prineville, Oregon", "url": "https://cityofprineville.com/sites/default/files/fileattachments/community_development/page/2623/prineville_crook_county_enterprise_zone_2.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City of Prineville and Apple Partner to Create Long-Term Water Supply Solution", "publisher": "City of Prineville, Oregon", "url": "https://www.cityofprineville.com/cityadministration/page/city-prineville-and-apple-partner-create-long-term-water-supply-solution", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Amazon Web Services, Google, Apple, Oracle and Microsoft Oregon location pages were not yet reviewed directly in the current review.", "Colocation operator pages for Flexential, STACK, QTS, Digital Realty, NTT, EdgeConneX, Aligned, CoreSite, Sabey, Crane, H5 and US Signal were not yet reviewed directly; their Oregon facilities remain unexamined dataset leads." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Meta Prineville Data Center (facility info sheet)", "publisher": "Meta Platforms, Inc.", "url": "https://datacenters.atmeta.com/asset/prineville-data-center-info-sheet/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Hillsboro and Portland colocation records in the extract (Digital Realty PDX10/11/12, Flexential Hillsboro 1-5, STACK POR01-03, QTS Hillsboro 1 and 3, NTT HI1, EdgeConneX POR01/POR02, Aligned PDX-01, Oracle Hillsboro, H5 Portland, Pittock Block, US Signal OR01, Crane PDX02) were not individually examined and are not research leads.", "No directory listing service was consulted in the current review." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas extract for Oregon (42 records), snapshot 71df145", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No county or city record of a denied or withdrawn data center land use application was located for any Oregon jurisdiction.", "The statewide pause on state land transactions for data centers through July 1, 2027 was seen only in search results and news; the Governor's own directive text for that pause was not read.", "No archived or historical operator page was consulted for renames or acquisitions beyond the Facebook-to-Meta and Rowan Green Data-to-Rowan Digital Infrastructure names already carried by cited sources." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Governor Kotek Directs State to Withdraw Land for Proposed Salem Data Center Site", "publisher": "Office of the Governor, State of Oregon", "url": "https://apps.oregon.gov/oregon-newsroom/OR/GOV/Posts/Post/governor-kotek-directs-state-to-withdraw-land-for-proposed-salem-data-center-site", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No systematic Oregon news sweep was performed; news was used only to locate government records." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Oregon DEQ seeks public input on proposed air quality permit for Amazon Data Services in Boardman", "publisher": "East Oregonian", "url": "https://eastoregonian.com/2025/03/27/oregon-deq-seeks-public-input-on-proposed-air-quality-permit-for-amazon-data-services-in-boardman/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "714,000-square-foot data center construction under way in Umatilla", "publisher": "Hermiston Herald", "url": "https://hermistonherald.com/2026/07/15/714000-square-foot-data-center-construction-under-way-in-umatilla/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Morrow County OKs $1 billion deal in tax breaks with Amazon", "publisher": "Oregon Public Broadcasting", "url": "https://www.opb.org/article/2023/05/19/amazon-data-center-oregon-morrow-county/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-11", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-12.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-12." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 2, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Pennsylvania", "abbr": "PA", "region": "Northeast", "slug": "pennsylvania", "url": "/pennsylvania/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The Revenue reports name entities but no addresses, municipalities or counties, so most certifications cannot be bound to a site.", "Certification-year reports before 2023 were not retrieved.", "No DCED or county economic development award record was opened; the DCED data center planning toolkit was seen only in search results.", "No list of projects previously in the PA Permit Fast Track Program was located." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Computer Data Center Equipment Exemption Program - Certification Year 2023", "publisher": "Pennsylvania Department of Revenue", "url": "https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/revenue/documents/news-and-statistics/reportsstats/taxcredits/computerdatactrequipprogram/documents/2023_computer_data_ctr_equip_pgm.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Computer Data Center Equipment Exemption Program - Certification Year 2024", "publisher": "Pennsylvania Department of Revenue", "url": "https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/revenue/documents/news-and-statistics/reportsstats/taxcredits/computerdatactrequipprogram/documents/2024_computer_data_ctr_equip_pgm.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Computer Data Center Equipment Exemption Program - Certification Year 2025", "publisher": "Pennsylvania Department of Revenue", "url": "https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/revenue/documents/news-and-statistics/reportsstats/taxcredits/computerdatactrequipprogram/documents/2025_computer_data_ctr_equip_pgm.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The PA PUC order, docket and party comments were never read (two timeouts and one connection refusal).", "No PJM large-load or interconnection record was retrieved.", "The FERC proceedings over the Talen and Amazon Susquehanna interconnection service agreement were not retrieved from FERC itself.", "No electric distribution company large-load tariff filing was opened." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Interconnection and Tariffs for Large Load Customers, Docket No. M-2025-3054271 - Final Order", "publisher": "Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission", "url": "https://www.puc.pa.gov/pcdocs/1932400.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "PA PUC docket M-2025-3054271 case file (Interconnection and Tariffs for Large Load Customers)", "publisher": "Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission", "url": "https://www.puc.pa.gov/docket/M-2025-3054271", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The full 32-00457A plan approval PDF did not respond during review after 120 seconds, so emission unit and turbine details were not read.", "No PA Bulletin air quality or NPDES notice was searched; the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before that family could be worked.", "DEP eFACTS was not queried for any other data center site.", "No municipal building or grading permit was retrieved for any research lead." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Homer City Generation Site Redevelopment - permits and authorizations", "publisher": "Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Northwest Regional Office", "url": "https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dep/dep-regions/northwest-regional-office/homer-city-generation-redevelopment", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "PA DEP Air Quality Plan Approval 32-00457A - Homer City Generation LP (final plan approval PDF)", "publisher": "Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection", "url": "https://files.dep.state.pa.us/RegionalResources/NWRO/NWROPortalFiles/Homer-City/Air/Final-AQ-Plan-Approval/FINAL%20PLAN%20APPROVAL%2032-00457A.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Only one county assessor system was queried; no other Pennsylvania county GIS was used.", "No township or borough zoning hearing board decision was retrieved, including the Upper Macungie, Jessup and East Vincent denials which are known only from reporting.", "Municipal files for Carlisle, Middlesex Township, East Whiteland, Limerick, Upper Merion, Archbald, Hazle Township, Salem Township and Muncy Township were not reached." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Falls Township news: NorthPoint Development at Keystone Trade Center land development plan approvals", "publisher": "Falls Township, Bucks County", "url": "https://www.fallstwp.com/resources/news/article/?id=10070", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Lawrence County Tax Parcel CAMA map service - parcel query for control number 26132000", "publisher": "Lawrence County GIS / Assessor", "url": "https://gis.leoc.net:6443/arcgis/rest/services/LAWRENCEGIS/TaxParcelCAMA/MapServer/1/query?where=CONTROLNUM%3D%2726132000%27&outFields=*&f=json", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Only the City's summary was read; the full community benefits agreement was not retrieved.", "No LERTA, TIF, KOZ or county development agreement was opened for any other Pennsylvania project.", "The Clifton Township settlement agreement with 1778 Rich Pike LLC is known only from reporting." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Community Benefits Agreement Summary - Lancaster AI Hub", "publisher": "City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania", "url": "https://www.cityoflancasterpa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Community-Benefits-Agreement-Summary-1-1.pdf", "evidence_class": "agreement" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle and Apple location pages were not checked for Pennsylvania sites, even though Oracle and Amazon entities appear in the state certification reports.", "Flexential, TierPoint, Netrality, Iron Mountain, Expedient, Sentinel, Switch, PowerHouse and TECfusions operator pages were not yet reviewed directly.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before operator pages could be located by search." ], "sources": [ { "title": "DataBank Pittsburgh data centers page (PIT1 and PIT2)", "publisher": "DataBank", "url": "https://www.databank.com/data-centers/pittsburgh/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Thirty-one Compute Atlas Pennsylvania records were read but not worked into research leads, including the Lackawanna County cluster entries Project Gravity and Triboro Industrial Park, the Upper Merion Renaissance Park applications, Switch Big Beaver, Aligned's Shippingport site and several operating colocation facilities.", "No commercial directory was used." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for Pennsylvania (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No municipal written decision, appeal filing or withdrawal letter was retrieved for any of these reversals.", "Both Pennhurst articles could not be retrieved during review.", "Older Pennsylvania data center closures, demolitions and renames were not searched at all." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Air Products abandons plan for data center at former Upper Macungie headquarters", "publisher": "Lehigh Valley Public Media", "url": "https://www.lehighvalleypublicmedia.org/news/all/air-products-abandons-plan-for-data-center-at-former-upper-macungie-headquarters/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Future of Ransom Twp. property uncertain as Carbon County developer says no plans for data center campus", "publisher": "WVIA", "url": "https://www.wvia.org/news/local/2026-07-27/future-of-ransom-twp-property-uncertain-as-carbon-county-developer-says-no-plans-for-data-center-campus", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Jessup denies Breaker Street data center", "publisher": "The Times-Tribune (via Yahoo News)", "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jessup-denies-breaker-street-data-010400301.html", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep partway through Pennsylvania, so the remaining families were worked only from URLs already in hand.", "No advocacy or research tracker was opened." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Clifton Twp. supervisors settle with data center developer; residents promise litigation", "publisher": "WVIA", "url": "https://www.wvia.org/news/local/2026-01-03/clifton-twp-supervisors-settle-with-data-center-developer-residents-promise-litigation", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Legal notice claims deemed approval for Muncy Township data center", "publisher": "Williamsport Sun-Gazette", "url": "https://www.sungazette.com/news/top-news/2026/07/legal-notice-claims-deemed-approval-for-muncy-township-data-center/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 1, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 0 }, { "name": "Rhode Island", "abbr": "RI", "region": "Northeast", "slug": "rhode-island", "url": "/rhode-island/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 0, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "No independently source-linked record is published yet. The reviewed source roster and current research gaps are shown below.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-14" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep, so program-level and award-level incentive records were not systematically checked.", "Qualified Jobs and Rebuild RI award lists not reviewed for any data center recipient." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Rhode Island Commerce", "publisher": "Rhode Island Commerce Corporation", "url": "https://commerceri.com/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "A named, site-specific commission docket, tariff, special contract, interconnection request or ISO-NE record tying a Rhode Island location to data-center use remains missing.", "The Rhode Island Energy response and ISO-NE forecast are system-level screening records; they do not establish a project or prove statewide absence." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Rhode Island PUC commission dockets", "publisher": "Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission", "url": "https://ripuc.ri.gov/events-and-actions/commission-dockets", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "RIPUC Docket 25-45-GE, Rhode Island Energy responses to PUC Set 9 (public)", "publisher": "Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission", "url": "https://ripuc.ri.gov/sites/g/files/xkgbur841/files/2026-05/25-45-GE%20RIE%20Respns%20PUC%20Set%209%20(Bk%201)%20(Public).pdf", "evidence_class": "docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No air permit search performed; generator permits for any Rhode Island data center remain unchecked.", "No stormwater construction general permit notices reviewed for the Smithfield site." ], "sources": [ { "title": "RIDEM Air Quality", "publisher": "Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management", "url": "https://dem.ri.gov/airquality", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "RIDEM preconstruction air permits", "publisher": "Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management", "url": "https://dem.ri.gov/environmental-protection-bureau/air-resources/air-permits/preconstruction-permits", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "PLN-26-10 / OpenGov application body stating whether Smithfield Corporate Complex proposes data-center use was not independently readable.", "September 2, 2026 Board of Appeals minutes for case 26-011 are not on file.", "No Providence use, permit, or occupancy record naming a data center was opened." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Town of Smithfield 2026 meeting agendas page (Internet Archive capture 2026-08-14)", "publisher": "Town of Smithfield", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260814185548/https://www.smithfieldri.gov/government/2026-meeting-agendas", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Town of Smithfield planning board meeting materials / recent applications (Internet Archive capture 2026-08-14)", "publisher": "Town of Smithfield", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260814185940/https://www.smithfieldri.gov/departments/planning-economic-development/planning-board-meeting-materials/upcoming-meetings-documents", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Town of Smithfield ordinances and charter index (Internet Archive capture 2026-08-14)", "publisher": "Town of Smithfield", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260814185922/https://www.smithfieldri.gov/government/ordinances-charter", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Smithfield tax stabilization agreement or PILOT record reviewed; the town site is blocked.", "no broad discovery sweep was completed to find agreement coverage." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Rhode Island Commerce tax credits", "publisher": "Rhode Island Commerce Corporation", "url": "https://commerceri.com/financing/tax-credits/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No operator page was retrieved for the two Providence colocation listings, so their operator names are unverified and possibly legacy brands.", "No hyperscaler location pages checked for Rhode Island; no broad discovery sweep was completed.", "No offshore-wind-linked data center proposal was searched for beyond Quonset." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Quonset Development Corporation", "publisher": "Quonset Development Corporation", "url": "https://www.quonset.com/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Quonset Development Corporation site search: 'data center'", "publisher": "Quonset Development Corporation", "url": "https://www.quonset.com/?s=data+center", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Data Center Map, datacenters.com, Baxtel and PeeringDB not consulted for Rhode Island (two of these were unavailable during review earlier in the current review).", "The directory's own count (10) exceeds what it displays, so operating facilities are likely missing." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas facilities.json snapshot 71df145 (state extract)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" }, { "title": "Rhode Island Data Center Location Map", "publisher": "Cloud and Colocation", "url": "https://cloudandcolocation.com/state/rhode-island/", "evidence_class": "directory_listing" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No archived-page or corporate-history sweep for older Rhode Island facilities.", "Whether the Smithfield application survives the ordinance is unresolved in all retrieved sources." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Smithfield puts the brakes on potential data center", "publisher": "Valley Breeze", "url": "https://www.valleybreeze.com/news/smithfield-puts-the-brakes-on-potential-data-center/article_cd279d3e-1bda-4e2e-b3ac-a716d776ab2f.html", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Rhode Island Current and ecoRI News coverage (noted as blocked in the Compute Atlas record) was not attempted." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Proposed data center still looms over Smithfield, even after town council enacts ban", "publisher": "Ocean State Media", "url": "https://www.oceanstatemedia.org/technology/proposed-data-center-still-looms-over-smithfield-even-after-town-council-enacts-ban", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "hold", "coverage_label": "Nothing published yet, on purpose", "coverage_summary": "Leads were found and read, and none of them cleared the bar to publish.", "coverage_not_a_census": "Nothing published here does not mean there are no data centers in the state. The reason and the date we look again are below.", "coverage_basis": "not-applicable", "next_review": "2026-12-13", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "Held states are looked at again 90 days after the hold was last reviewed on 2026-09-14.", "review_rules": [ "Held states are looked at again 90 days after the hold was last reviewed on 2026-09-14." ], "hold_reasons": [ "The application we could read does not commit to building a data center." ], "distinct_sources": 0, "distinct_counties": 0, "multi_source_records": 0 }, { "name": "South Carolina", "abbr": "SC", "region": "South", "slug": "south-carolina", "url": "/south-carolina/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No register of South Carolina data center sales and use tax exemption recipients was found.", "The DartPoints Greenville announcement cited by the dataset was not retrieved.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for this state, so announcements could only be reached through URLs carried in the dataset extract." ], "sources": [ { "title": "South Carolina Incentives", "publisher": "South Carolina Department of Commerce", "url": "https://www.sccommerce.com/incentives", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Meta selects Aiken County for first South Carolina data center", "publisher": "Office of the Governor of South Carolina", "url": "https://governor.sc.gov/news/2024-08/meta-selects-aiken-county-first-south-carolina-data-center", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Cielo Digital Infrastructure selects Cherokee County for first South Carolina development project", "publisher": "Office of the Governor of South Carolina", "url": "https://governor.sc.gov/news/2025-06/cielo-digital-infrastructure-selects-cherokee-county-first-south-carolina-development", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No large-load tariff, electric service agreement or integrated resource plan filing was read; only the one docket reachable from the dataset's own citation was opened.", "No Santee Cooper or Dominion Energy South Carolina large-load filing was reached, including the Santee Cooper grid capacity study referenced in the Newberry County statement." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Docket 2026-158-E detail page", "publisher": "Public Service Commission of South Carolina", "url": "https://dms.psc.sc.gov/Web/Dockets/Detail/119739", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No air permit was located for any other South Carolina data center, including the Meta Aiken, Google Dorchester and QTS York County campuses.", "No water withdrawal, stormwater or construction permit notice was searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Statement of Basis — Air Permit CP-50000316 v1.0, Valara Holdings High Performance Compute Center", "publisher": "South Carolina Department of Environmental Services, Bureau of Air Quality", "url": "https://www.des.sc.gov/sites/des/files/Documents/BAQ/DepartmentDecisions/Valara/StatementofBasis.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Air - Construction Permit (Modification) application, Submission HQJ-32R0-VR9VC, Valara Holdings High Performance Compute Center", "publisher": "South Carolina Department of Environmental Services, Bureau of Air Quality", "url": "https://des.sc.gov/sites/des/files/Documents/BAQ/Valara/Application.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No county assessor or GIS parcel record was retrieved for any South Carolina research lead.", "No Aiken, Cherokee, Dorchester, Berkeley, Colleton, Marion or Spartanburg County land-use case file was read.", "The later Newberry County vote and its twelve-month moratorium ordinance were not read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data Centers — York County, SC", "publisher": "York County, South Carolina", "url": "https://www.yorkcountysc.gov/1313/Data-Centers", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Newberry County Government's Statement on Data Centers", "publisher": "Newberry County, South Carolina", "url": "https://www.newberrycounty.gov/news/newberry-county-governments-statement-data-centers", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No executed FILOT, special source revenue credit or multi-county industrial park agreement naming a South Carolina data center was obtained, including the Aiken County property tax breaks reported for Meta.", "The $200,000 Coordinating Council Set-Aside grant to York County named in the QTS announcement was not traced to an award document." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Local Property Tax Incentives", "publisher": "South Carolina Department of Commerce", "url": "https://www.sccommerce.com/incentives/local-property-taxes-incentives", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Meta, QTS, Cielo, Amentum and DartPoints operator pages were not yet reviewed directly.", "No colocation operator directory page was consulted." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Berkeley County, South Carolina — Google Data Centers", "publisher": "Google", "url": "https://datacenters.google/locations/berkeley-county-south-carolina/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Myrtle Beach Cable Landing Station", "publisher": "DC BLOX", "url": "https://www.dcblox.com/data-centers/myrtle-beach/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No unlicensed directory listing was consulted for South Carolina." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for South Carolina", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No county case file or ordinance confirming any of the four cancellations was read.", "The Greenidge SEC filing and the 2025 land-sale report cited by the dataset were not retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Greenidge Generation Establishing Operations in Spartanburg County", "publisher": "Office of the Governor of South Carolina", "url": "https://governor.sc.gov/news/2022-01/greenidge-generation-establishing-operations-spartanburg-county", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before South Carolina, so news discovery relied entirely on URLs carried in the dataset extract." ], "sources": [ { "title": "NNSA Selects Amentum for AI Data Center and Energy Project at Savannah River Site", "publisher": "U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/nnsa-selects-amentum-ai-data-center-and-energy-project-savannah-river-site", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 2, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "South Dakota", "abbr": "SD", "region": "Midwest", "slug": "south-dakota", "url": "/south-dakota/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-11" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "GOED project announcements and incentive records were not searched.", "sdlegislature.gov bill records for HB 1005, SB 135 and HB 1038 were not yet reviewed directly; findings rest on search results.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before further incentive searches." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Rhoden signs 'Data Center Bill of Rights' bill", "publisher": "SDPB", "url": "https://www.sdpb.org/politics/2026-03-25/rhoden-signs-data-center-bill-of-rights-bill", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Lawmakers kill bid to entice data centers to South Dakota with tax exemptions", "publisher": "SiouxFalls.Business", "url": "https://siouxfalls.business/lawmakers-kill-bid-to-entice-data-centers-to-south-dakota-with-tax-exemptions/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Data center tax break proposal fails in South Dakota legislative committee", "publisher": "South Dakota Searchlight", "url": "https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2026/02/04/data-center-tax-break-proposal-fails-in-south-dakota-legislative-committee/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "EL25-019 application and exhibits not read.", "NorthWestern Energy, Black Hills Power and Otter Tail 2026 ten-year plans not yet reviewed directly.", "Confidential exhibits (EL26-008 original Exhibit 1) not accessible.", "Pre-2025 dockets not reviewed." ], "sources": [ { "title": "All 2026 Electric Dockets (EL26-001 to EL26-028)", "publisher": "South Dakota Public Utilities Commission", "url": "https://puc.sd.gov/Dockets/Electric/2026/default.aspx", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "All 2025 Electric Dockets (EL25-001 to EL25-041)", "publisher": "South Dakota Public Utilities Commission", "url": "https://puc.sd.gov/Dockets/Electric/2025/default.aspx", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Docket EL26-008: Black Hills Power Blockchain Interruptible Electric Service Agreement", "publisher": "South Dakota Public Utilities Commission", "url": "https://puc.sd.gov/Dockets/Electric/2026/EL26-008.aspx", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No DANR permit database query was possible; historical notices not reviewed.", "Stormwater construction general permit coverage lists not checked.", "City building permits (Sioux Falls, Rapid City) not checked." ], "sources": [ { "title": "DANR public notices and permit categories index", "publisher": "South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources", "url": "https://danr.sd.gov/public/default.aspx", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "South Dakota Air Quality - Air Quality Permitting", "publisher": "South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources", "url": "https://danr.sd.gov/Environment/AirQuality/PermitForms/default.aspx", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The October 2025 annexation resolution was not retrieved. The January 6, 2026 City Council minutes were separately reopened during publication review; their dynamic OnBase meeting page remains on manual monitoring.", "Minnehaha County, Lincoln County, Pennington County, Sully County and Rapid City records not yet reviewed directly.", "Deuel County zoning board minutes and the December 16, 2025 meeting video not reviewed.", "No assessor or GIS parcel queries." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Council Meetings & Agendas - City of Sioux Falls", "publisher": "City of Sioux Falls", "url": "https://www.siouxfalls.gov/government/council/council-meetings-agendas", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Planning Commission Meeting - 7/2/2025 - OnBase Agenda Online", "publisher": "City of Sioux Falls", "url": "https://amv.siouxfalls.gov/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Meetings/ViewMeeting?id=4080&doctype=1", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Planning Commission Meeting 7/2/2025 agenda packet (staff reports)", "publisher": "City of Sioux Falls", "url": "https://amv.siouxfalls.gov/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Documents/DownloadFileBytes/Planning_Commission_Meeting_4080_Agenda_Packet_7_2_2025_6_00_00_PM.pdf?documentType=5&meetingId=4080&isAttachment=True", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Sioux Falls annexation resolution and notice of claim for infrastructure obligations (Gemini site) not retrieved.", "County discretionary formula resolutions statewide not searched; the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Deuel County Commissioners minutes, June 3rd, 2025 Regular Meeting", "publisher": "Deuel County, South Dakota", "url": "https://www.deuelcountysd.com/_files/ugd/1bce45_2a967f814ee74103b454541adf60e07f.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Deuel County Commissioners minutes, August 5th, 2025 Regular Meeting", "publisher": "Deuel County, South Dakota", "url": "https://www.deuelcountysd.com/_files/ugd/1bce45_6609c206e6074cab8efd9f508c9a4c35.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "AWS, Microsoft, Oracle and Apple location disclosures not checked for South Dakota.", "Applied Digital investor materials and press releases not read.", "Data Center Map lists 8 Sioux Falls facilities from 4 operators; other operators' pages not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data Centers in South Dakota", "publisher": "TierPoint", "url": "https://www.tierpoint.com/data-centers/south-dakota/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Sioux Falls - West Data Center", "publisher": "TierPoint", "url": "https://www.tierpoint.com/data-centers/south-dakota/sioux-falls-west/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Data Center | SDN Communications", "publisher": "SDN Communications", "url": "https://sdncommunications.com/services/data-center", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Directory listings not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas snapshot 71df145 extract for SD", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" }, { "title": "Sioux Falls Data Centers - 8 Facilities from 4 Operators", "publisher": "Data Center Map", "url": "https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/south-dakota/sioux-falls/", "evidence_class": "directory_listing" }, { "title": "Gemini Data Center: Sioux Falls Technology Park Data Center", "publisher": "Baxtel", "url": "https://baxtel.com/data-center/gemini-data-center-sioux-falls-technology-park", "evidence_class": "directory_listing" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "South Dakota Searchlight, KELOLAND and Data Center Dynamics articles on the Applied Digital status could not be retrieved during review.", "No archived-page or historical closure sweep was possible after the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Deuel County Commissioners minutes, August 4th, 2026 Regular Meeting", "publisher": "Deuel County, South Dakota", "url": "https://www.deuelcountysd.com/_files/ugd/1bce45_537a2ea8a3314b1da54d22a4959a1f08.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "South Dakota Searchlight articles were blocked by a bot wall." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Sioux Falls City Council approves rezoning of proposed data center land", "publisher": "SDPB", "url": "https://www.sdpb.org/politics/2026-01-07/sioux-falls-city-council-approves-rezoning-of-proposed-data-center-land", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Sioux Falls data center developers detail next steps", "publisher": "SiouxFalls.Business", "url": "https://siouxfalls.business/sioux-falls-data-center-developers-detail-next-steps/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Data Center debate fuels fiery Lincoln County-Sioux Falls joint meeting", "publisher": "Dakota News Now", "url": "https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2026/08/26/data-center-debate-fuels-fiery-lincoln-county-sioux-falls-joint-meeting/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-13", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 2, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Tennessee", "abbr": "TN", "region": "South", "slug": "tennessee", "url": "/tennessee/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No state announcement was found for any Tennessee data center after 2020, so recent projects have no state incentive record in the current research record.", "Tennessee's FastTrack grant awards and any per-project incentive documents were not searched.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for Tennessee, so this family was audited by direct site search only." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Governor Haslam, Commissioner Boyd Announce Google to Locate New Data Center in Clarksville", "publisher": "Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development", "url": "https://tnecd.com/news/governor-haslam-commissioner-boyd-announce-google-to-locate-new-data-center-in-clarksville/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Governor Lee, Commissioner Rolfe Announce Facebook to Build $800 Million Data Center in Gallatin", "publisher": "Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development", "url": "https://tnecd.com/news/governor-lee-commissioner-rolfe-announce-facebook-to-build-800-million-data-center-in-gallatin/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Litewire, LLC to Open New Facility in Warren County", "publisher": "Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development", "url": "https://tnecd.com/news/litewire-llc-to-open-new-facility-in-warren-county/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No TVA board record, power supply agreement, long-term load contract or large-load tariff was retrieved.", "Memphis Light, Gas and Water, Nashville Electric Service and the other local power companies that actually serve these loads were not searched.", "Whether the Tennessee Public Utility Commission has any docket touching a data center was not established." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Tennessee Public Utility Commission", "publisher": "State of Tennessee", "url": "https://www.tn.gov/tpuc.html", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No air, water, stormwater, building or grading permit was obtained for any Tennessee research lead.", "The Shelby County Health Department permits for the xAI Memphis turbines and the Air Pollution Control Board appeal history are entirely unevidenced here.", "Copies of the xAI permit appeal filings exist on advocacy sites, but a document hosted by an advocacy group keeps that discovery class, so they were not used as permit evidence." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Shelby County Government — Air Quality (Health Department air permitting)", "publisher": "Shelby County Government", "url": "https://www.shelbycountytn.gov/3162/Air-Quality", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "TDEC Air Permits", "publisher": "Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation", "url": "https://www.tn.gov/environment/permit-permits/air-permits.html", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No Tennessee assessor or GIS parcel record was queried, so no research lead carries a verbatim parcel ID.", "Memphis, Shelby County, Hamilton County, Sumner County, Montgomery County, Knox County, Warren County and Bradley County land-use records were not reached.", "No individual Nashville zoning case file was opened; only matter titles were read through the API." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County legislative record — data center matters (Legistar Web API)", "publisher": "Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County", "url": "https://webapi.legistar.com/v1/nashville/matters?$filter=substringof('data%20center',MatterTitle)", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "City of McMinnville news and public meeting notices", "publisher": "City of McMinnville", "url": "https://www.mcminnvilletn.gov/?s=data+center", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The statutory Tennessee qualified data center exemption, its investment and job thresholds and any list of certified recipients were not documented.", "No county or municipal PILOT, tax increment or development agreement was located for any Tennessee data center, including the reported Hamilton County lease for the former jail building.", "Whether DOE awarded any Oak Ridge lease after the December 2025 deadline was not established." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Tennessee Department of Revenue — Exemptions, Certificates and Credits (sales and use tax)", "publisher": "Tennessee Department of Revenue", "url": "https://www.tn.gov/revenue/taxes/sales-and-use-tax/exemptions-certificates-credits.html", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "U.S. Energy Department Seeks Proposals for AI Data Centers, Energy Projects at Oak Ridge", "publisher": "U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/em/articles/us-energy-department-seeks-proposals-ai-data-centers-energy-projects-oak-ridge", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Oracle and Apple disclose no Tennessee site and were not separately checked.", "Colocation operator pages for DataBank, DC BLOX, EdgeConneX, Flexential, TierPoint, Centersquare and RadiusDC were not yet reviewed directly; those research leads rest on the Compute Atlas extract.", "xAI publishes no site page that was reached." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Bitdeer Technologies Group, Form 20-F annual report (SEC EDGAR, CIK 0001899123)", "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1899123/000121390026049770/ea0282628-20f_bitdeer.htm", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No commercial directory was consulted.", "Capacity values carried in the extract were not transcribed into research leads because the extract's numeric fields have no verbatim source phrase attached; only figures quoted from records retrieved in the current review were recorded." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas Tennessee extract (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas (Edward Kubiak)", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Tennessee data center closure, demolition or acquisition was located; 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It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The JETI current-agreements page was never opened, so the exclusion of data centers from that programme is unconfirmed.", "Texas Economic Development Corporation and Texas Enterprise Fund award records were not searched.", "No Comptroller record ties any registration number to a street address, city or county, so most registrations could not be located." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data Centers in Texas — Registered Qualifying Data Center Projects and Registered Qualifying Large Data Center Projects", "publisher": "Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts", "url": "https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/data-centers/data-center-lists.php", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Jobs, Energy, Technology and Innovation Act (JETI) — Current Agreements", "publisher": "Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts", "url": "https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/development/prop-tax/jeti/current-agreements.php", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Every puc.texas.gov host could not establish a secure connection in the current review, so no PUCT docket, order, tariff or electric service agreement was read. This is the largest access gap in the Texas review.", "ERCOT's own large load interconnection service pages and generation interconnection queue files were not yet reviewed directly.", "No utility_request_mw statement is recorded for any Texas research lead, because no readable source attributed queue or interconnection MW to a named site." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Large Load Interconnection Status Update — Large Load Integration Team, March 13, 2026", "publisher": "Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)", "url": "https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2026/03/12/March-TAC-Report.pdf", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "PUCT Interchange filing in Docket No. 58872 (Freestone Power Generation net metering application)", "publisher": "Public Utility Commission of Texas", "url": "https://interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/58872_30_1599884.PDF", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" }, { "title": "Public Utility Commission of Texas filings site", "publisher": "Public Utility Commission of Texas", "url": "https://www.puc.texas.gov/industry/electric/rates/Filings.aspx", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "TCEQ standard permit registrations for electric generating units (for example the Crusoe Abilene registration reported in press as 177263) were not retrieved, so no permitted generation nameplate MW is recorded for any Texas research lead.", "TCEQ water rights, wastewater and stormwater construction general permit notices were not searched.", "A pending air permit application naming a Dove Creek/Westline TX Holdings data center campus in Tom Green County appeared in search results but its permit number and notice were not located.", "Title V operating permits and issued (rather than pending) NSR permits were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Pending Applications: New Source Review Permits", "publisher": "Texas Commission on Environmental Quality", "url": "https://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/permitting/air/reports/applications/nsr-pending-permits.html", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Plain Language Summary — Air NSR permit 182126, GHGPSDTX263 and PSDTX1688 (Longhorn Data Center)", "publisher": "Texas Commission on Environmental Quality", "url": "https://www.tceq.texas.gov/downloads/permitting/air/bilingual/pending-permit-notices/182126-pls-english.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Plain Language Summary — Air NSR permit 182880 (Goodnight Data Center)", "publisher": "Texas Commission on Environmental Quality", "url": "https://www.tceq.texas.gov/downloads/permitting/air/bilingual/pending-permit-notices/182880-pls-english.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Only Milam County's agendas were swept. Taylor, Ellis, Bexar, Collin, Tarrant, Dallas, Bell, Hill, Navarro, Mitchell, Dickens, Wilbarger, Armstrong, Reeves, Pecos, Hays, Milam and El Paso county and city portals were otherwise untouched.", "No county appraisal district parcel record was opened, so no Texas research lead carries a parcel identifier.", "sanmarcostx.gov did not respond, so the Francis Harris Lane council minutes and zoning case number were never read.", "No GIS layer or zoning case database was queried for any Texas jurisdiction." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Commissioners Court of Milam County, Texas — agenda, Monday, February 24, 2025", "publisher": "Milam County, Texas", "url": "https://quorum.sparqdata.com/Public/DownloadAgenda/3085?meeting=674675", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Commissioners Court of Milam County, Texas — agenda, Monday, June 9, 2025", "publisher": "Milam County, Texas", "url": "https://quorum.sparqdata.com/Public/DownloadAgenda/3085?meeting=689156", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Commissioners Court of Milam County, Texas — agenda, Monday, April 27, 2026", "publisher": "Milam County, Texas", "url": "https://quorum.sparqdata.com/Public/DownloadAgenda/3085?meeting=739629", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The registry's per-record City and County contact fields are the appraisal district office address, not the site; county here rests on the reporting appraisal district or on a lead taxing unit that is itself a county.", "Chapter 380 and 381 city and county development agreements, PILOT agreements and school district agreements were not searched; the Milam County Riot Rockdale PILOT reported in press was never obtained as a document.", "The registry lists no parcel account for any of the data center rows examined ('Property Account: Unknown').", "Industrial district agreements, common in Texas extraterritorial jurisdictions, were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Chapter 312 abatement detail (open data file)", "publisher": "Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts", "url": "https://assets.comptroller.texas.gov/open-data-files/ch312-abatement-detail.csv", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Microsoft, Meta, Amazon Web Services, Oracle and Apple location pages were not yet reviewed directly.", "No colocation operator site pages (Aligned, CyrusOne, Vantage, STACK, Compass, DataBank, QTS, Equinix, Digital Realty, Stream, Flexential, TierPoint, Prime, Skybox) were opened.", "Only one SEC filing was retrieved; Core Scientific, Galaxy, Riot, Hut 8, IREN, Soluna, Fermi and Applied Digital filings naming Texas sites were not." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Cipher Mining Inc. Form 8-K, date of earliest event reported November 20, 2025", "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819989/000095010325015073/dp237633_8k.htm", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, Cloudscene and PeeringDB were not consulted.", "About 90 Compute Atlas Texas records, mostly Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, Houston and San Antonio colocation halls and crypto-mining sites, were read in summary but not worked up into research leads." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas — Texas extract (137 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The San Marcos denial rests entirely on an unopened search result; no council minute, ordinance or case number was obtained.", "The Hill County commissioners court moratorium order and its rescission order were not obtained; only a news account was read.", "No archived or superseded operator page, no acquisition filing and no demolition record was searched for Texas.", "Compute Atlas carries no cancelled Texas record, so the dataset contributed nothing to this family." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Chapter 312 Abatement Report 000004667 — CYRUSONE Reinvestment Zone (expired)", "publisher": "Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts", "url": "https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/development/search-tools/ch312/abatements-details.php?id=000004667", "evidence_class": "agreement" }, { "title": "Chapter 312 Abatement Report 000004511 — City of Fort Worth Reinvestment Zone #67 (expired)", "publisher": "Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts", "url": "https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/development/search-tools/ch312/abatements-details.php?id=000004511", "evidence_class": "agreement" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No systematic Texas news sweep was run; only two stories were followed.", "The Spectrum News San Marcos story was never opened, so its vote count and acreage remain uncorroborated." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Texas county rescinds data center moratorium after lawsuit", "publisher": "The Texas Tribune", "url": "https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/05/texas-hill-county-moratorium-rescinded-data-centers/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "San Marcos City Council rejects data center land plan", "publisher": "Spectrum News 1 Texas", "url": "https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2026/02/18/san-marcos-city-council-rejects-data-center-land-plan", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2026-09-26", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "1 source behind a published record changed or is watched at least weekly, so this state is looked at again 7 days after the recorded source check on 2026-09-19.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-19.", "1 source behind a published record changed or is watched at least weekly, so this state is looked at again 7 days after the recorded source check on 2026-09-19." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 6, "distinct_counties": 4, "multi_source_records": 4 }, { "name": "Utah", "abbr": "UT", "region": "West", "slug": "utah", "url": "/utah/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The office's full incentive award list was not enumerated, so other Utah data center awards were not found.", "Utah's sales and use tax treatment of data center equipment and any certification list were not researched.", "EDCUtah project records were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Creekstone Energy, LLC Commits $17 Billion to Millard County Data Center Project", "publisher": "Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity", "url": "https://business.utah.gov/tax-credits/creekstone-energy-llc-commits-17-billion-to-millard-county-data-center-project/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No filing inside Docket 26-035-05 was opened, so the customer, the load and the site are unknown.", "Docket 25-R318-01 on large-scale electric service requirements and PacifiCorp's integrated resource plan load forecasts were not read.", "Municipal utilities (for example Provo and Murray) were not checked." ], "sources": [ { "title": "All Electric Dockets — Utah Public Service Commission", "publisher": "Utah Public Service Commission", "url": "https://psc.utah.gov/electric/dockets/all-electric-dockets/", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The Division of Air Quality permitting site was reached only through individual document links found in search results; no systematic keyword search of the permit database was run, so other data center permit actions were not enumerated.", "The federal environmental assessment for the NSA Utah Data Center campus expansion could not be retrieved during review.", "Water rights, drinking water, water quality discharge and county building permits were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "DAQE-IN159410007-22 — Intent to Approve, Stadion, LLC - Eagle Mountain Data Center (Project N159410007)", "publisher": "Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Air Quality", "url": "https://daqpermitting.utah.gov/DocViewer?IntDocID=134148&contentType=application%2Fpdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "DAQE-AN160660003-24 — Approval Order, Novva SLC Common, LLC - West Jordan Data Center (Project N160660003)", "publisher": "Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Air Quality", "url": "https://daqpermitting.utah.gov/DocViewer?IntDocID=151396&contentType=application%2Fpdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No city council or county commission minutes, agenda or resolution was opened anywhere in Utah.", "The QTS development agreement and its February 2025 first amendment, which reporting says allows on-site generation, were not retrieved from the city recorder.", "No assessor or GIS parcel record was queried, so no Utah research lead has a parcel identifier.", "Iron, Millard, Box Elder, Tooele and Duchesne county land-use files were not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Construction restarts on QTS Data Center in Eagle Mountain", "publisher": "Eagle Mountain City", "url": "https://eaglemountain.gov/construction-restarts-on-qts-data-center-in-eagle-mountain/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The MIDA resolution and the Box Elder County interlocal agreement documents themselves were not retrieved.", "No Utah tax increment, PILOT or development agreement was obtained for any other site.", "The QTS Eagle Mountain development agreement was not retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Frequently Asked Questions — Stratos Project Area", "publisher": "Office of the Governor of Utah", "url": "https://governor.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/FAQ-on-Stratos-Project.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Meta, Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Apple disclosures were not checked for Utah sites.", "Aligned, DataBank, Flexential, Novva and Cirrus Data Services location pages were not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "QTS Eagle Mountain City, Utah data center page", "publisher": "QTS Data Centers", "url": "https://q.com/data-centers/eagle-mountain/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Thirty-two Compute Atlas Utah records were not examined individually and are not research leads, including most Flexential, Lumen, FiberState, Senawave, Syringa, Voonami, Fibernet, ValorC3, Unisys, Newfold, Regence and Cirrus Data Services entries and the Salt Lake City colocation cluster generally.", "Compute Atlas power-generation records (Intermountain Power Project, Holtec Brigham City, Valar Atomics, Wells Draw Energy, Williams Aquila on the Stadion parcel) were deliberately not made research leads and their relationship to the data center sites was not resolved.", "No commercial directory was consulted." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for Utah (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No archived operator page, rename or acquisition record was checked for Utah colocation sites.", "Any denied county conditional use permits were not searched for." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Utah News Dispatch, Deseret News and KSL coverage of the Stratos and Millard County projects was not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Iron County Planning Commission approves permit for Antelope Data Center project", "publisher": "The Salt Lake Tribune", "url": "https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/06/06/iron-county-planning-commission/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 3, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Vermont", "abbr": "VT", "region": "Northeast", "slug": "vermont", "url": "/vermont/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 0, "facility_count": 1, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-14" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "VEGI award-level annual reports (2023-2025) not reviewed.", "No search for a Vermont data center sales and use tax exemption." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Vermont Employment Growth Incentive Overview (12.23.2025)", "publisher": "Vermont Economic Progress Council / Agency of Commerce and Community Development", "url": "https://outside.vermont.gov/agency/ACCD/ACCD_Web_Docs/ED/VEPC/2025/Vermont%20Employment%20Growth%20Incentive%20Overview%2012.23.2025.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "ePUC search remained incompletely accessible; exact historical New Haven records were independently opened through government and utility-authenticated copies, but case 20-3879-PET and the required pre-operation filing were not retrieved.", "Utility tariff repository cases and any GMP or VELCO large-load studies filed with the PUC not reviewed." ], "sources": [ { "title": "H.727 (2026) bill status: An act relating to sustainable data center deployment", "publisher": "Vermont General Assembly", "url": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2026/H.727", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "ePUC - Vermont Public Utility Commission electronic case and document system", "publisher": "Vermont Public Utility Commission", "url": "https://epuc.vermont.gov/", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "DEC air permit search not queried (interactive).", "Stormwater construction permit notices not searched.", "Act 250 district commission decisions not searched outside the open-data layer." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Act 250 Permits open-data layer (ANR ArcGIS MapServer layer 166), attribute query", "publisher": "Vermont Agency of Natural Resources", "url": "https://anrmaps.vermont.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Open_Data/OPENDATA_ANR_ENVIRON_SP_NOCACHE_v2/MapServer/166", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Vermont Air Pollution Permits public search", "publisher": "Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Air Quality and Climate Division", "url": "https://anrweb.vt.gov/DEC/AirFacilities/PublicSearch.aspx", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "City of St. Albans council records not searched; New Haven permit, parcel and current occupancy records remain incomplete.", "South Burlington, Royalton and Morristown bylaw or ordinance records not yet reviewed directly.", "No assessor or GIS parcel queries run." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Town of St. Albans Selectboard agendas and minutes (2025-dated PDFs)", "publisher": "Town of St. Albans", "url": "https://www.stalbanstown.com/government/selectboard/agendas___minutes_.php", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Municipal tax stabilization votes and VEPC TIF district filings not reviewed individually." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Consolidated Communications Burlington facility seen only in a search snippet; not examined.", "No per-operator check of hyperscaler location pages beyond broad discovery sweep." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Vermont Data Center Facility", "publisher": "Tech Vault", "url": "https://www.techvault.net/vermont-data-center-facility/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Keurig Green Mountain Data Center (project page)", "publisher": "ReArch Company", "url": "https://rearchconstruction.com/projects/keurig-green-mountain-data-center/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "FirstLight Williston data center specifications page (URL modeled on FirstLight's Portsmouth NH page)", "publisher": "FirstLight", "url": "https://www.firstlight.net/resources/data-center-williston-vt-specifications/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Baxtel and datacenters.com Vermont pages not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas facilities.json snapshot 71df145 (state extract)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" }, { "title": "FirstLight Williston VT Data Center in Burlington", "publisher": "Data Center Map", "url": "https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/vermont/burlington/teljet-longhaul/", "evidence_class": "directory_listing" }, { "title": "FirstLight - Burlington Data Center", "publisher": "Cloud and Colocation", "url": "https://cloudandcolocation.com/datacenters/firstlight-burlington-data-center/", "evidence_class": "directory_listing" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No archived-page or corporate-history search for renamed Vermont colocation sites." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Vermont's Data Center Bill Is Dead. Developers Weren't Lining Up to Build One Here Anyway", "publisher": "Compass Vermont", "url": "https://www.compassvermont.com/p/vermonts-data-center-bill-is-dead", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The News From The States republication was blocked." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Vermont plugs into the data center conversation", "publisher": "VTDigger", "url": "https://vtdigger.org/2026/02/24/vermont-plugs-into-the-data-center-conversation/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Preparing Vermont for Data Centers", "publisher": "Vermont Natural Resources Council", "url": "https://vnrc.org/preparing-vermont-for-data-centers/", "evidence_class": "advocacy_or_research" }, { "title": "New Data Center Powers a Sustainable Vermont", "publisher": "T&D World", "url": "https://www.tdworld.com/smart-utility/article/21118507/new-data-center-powers-a-sustainable-vermont", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-13", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-14." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 6, "distinct_counties": 0, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Virginia", "abbr": "VA", "region": "South", "slug": "virginia", "url": "/virginia/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 9, "facility_count": 1, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-11" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No public list of DCRSUT memorandum-of-understanding signatories or their localities.", "Governor's office release URLs found in search returned unavailable during review and the VEDP press index exposed no announcement titles in the retrieved HTML, so most project-level state announcements were not read.", "Local economic development authority announcements were reached only for Botetourt, Wythe, Louisa and Wise counties." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data Centers in Virginia (Report 598)", "publisher": "Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission", "url": "https://jlarc.virginia.gov/pdfs/reports/Rpt598-2.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Virginia Tax Exemptions for Data Centers — report to the General Assembly (RD40, January 2, 2026)", "publisher": "Virginia Economic Development Partnership", "url": "https://rga.lis.virginia.gov/Published/2026/RD40/PDF", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Data Center Retail Sales & Use Tax Exemption program page", "publisher": "Virginia Economic Development Partnership", "url": "https://www.vedp.org/incentive/data-center-retail-sales-use-tax-exemption", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Individual filings in PUR-2025-00058 and in Dominion's integrated resource plan and transmission certificate cases were not yet reviewed directly; the SCC docket search system was not exercised.", "No large-load or interconnection record naming a specific Virginia customer was retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "SCC Data Center Initiatives — Ensuring Data Centers Pay Their Own Costs (fact sheet, February 2026)", "publisher": "Virginia State Corporation Commission", "url": "https://www.scc.virginia.gov/media/sccvirginiagov-home/about-the-scc/fact-sheets/scc-data-center-initiatives-02-2026.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "In Biennial Review Ruling, SCC Creates New Class for Large-Scale Energy Users", "publisher": "Virginia State Corporation Commission", "url": "https://www.scc.virginia.gov/about-the-scc/newsreleases/release/scc-issues-order-on-dev-biennial-review-2025/scc-rules-in-dev-biennial-review-case.html", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "DEQ air permit list and permits 74288-2, 74341-1, 53266-1 and 74241-3 could not be retrieved during review.", "Corps of Engineers public notices NAO-2022-02394 and NAO-2013-01922 could not be retrieved during review.", "No water withdrawal, VPDES or stormwater construction notices were searched.", "County building, grading and land disturbance permits were reached only through the Botetourt County narrative." ], "sources": [ { "title": "ECHO air facility query — Virginia facilities whose name contains DATA CENTER", "publisher": "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency", "url": "https://echodata.epa.gov/echo/air_rest_services.get_facilities?output=JSON&p_st=VA&p_fn=DATA%20CENTER&responseset=20", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Loudoun County's LOLA land application system and all individual Loudoun cases were not reached; Loudoun holds the largest concentration of Virginia data centers.", "Caroline County's rezoning case list did not respond during review, and the City of Chesapeake and Town of Warrenton sites refused connections.", "No assessor or GIS parcel query was run for any county.", "Prince William's Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay page could not be retrieved during review." ], "sources": [ { "title": "PW Digital Gateway — Planning Office project page", "publisher": "Prince William County, Virginia", "url": "https://www.pwcva.gov/department/planning-office/pw-digital-gateway", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Hanover County Board of Supervisors agenda, May 27, 2026", "publisher": "Hanover County, Virginia", "url": "https://hanovercova.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=5618,plainText=false)", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Voluntary Proffer Statement, Mountain Road Technology Park (REZ2025-00023), April 16, 2026", "publisher": "Hanover County, Virginia", "url": "https://www.hanovercounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/15411/REZ2025-00023-Proffers-4-16-2026", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No executed agreement document was read; only county descriptions of agreements.", "King George County's performance agreement report (the central document in the Amazon dispute) is unread after two 90-second timeouts.", "Local data center equipment tax rates were seen only through news reporting for Hanover, Henrico and Chesterfield." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Louisa County Sale of Shannon Hill Regional Business Park", "publisher": "Louisa County, Virginia", "url": "https://www.louisacounty.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=470", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Board of Supervisors report — Local Performance Agreement for Amazon Data Services, as revised", "publisher": "King George County, Virginia", "url": "https://www.kinggeorgecountyva.gov/DocumentCenter/View/11970/BOS-Report---Local-Performance-Agreement-for-Amazon-Data-Services-as-Revised", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No AWS, Oracle or Apple disclosure was located for Virginia sites.", "Colocation operator location pages (Equinix, Digital Realty, CyrusOne, NTT, QTS, Vantage, STACK, CloudHQ, Iron Mountain and others) were not yet reviewed directly; those campuses remain dataset leads only.", "Meta's Henrico County campus could not be confirmed from operator material." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Boydton datacenter fact sheet", "publisher": "Microsoft", "url": "https://local.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Boydton-datacenter-fact-sheet.pdf", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Virginia, USA — Google Data Center Location", "publisher": "Google", "url": "https://datacenters.google/locations/virginia/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Meta data center locations index", "publisher": "Meta", "url": "https://datacenters.atmeta.com/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Roughly 80 building-level Northern Virginia records (Digital Realty, CyrusOne, NTT, QTS, Iron Mountain, Vantage, Equinix halls) were deliberately not turned into research leads, so the current research coverage under-represents operating capacity.", "No other directory (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, Cloudscene, PeeringDB) was consulted." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas Virginia extract (143 records)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "A Data Center Dynamics headline indicates the Pittsylvania plan was 'withdrawn again' after the April 2025 denial; that later filing could not be verified (unavailable during review).", "No county record was retrieved for the Chesapeake, Fredericksburg, Dulles South, Franklin or LS Power decisions.", "Renames and acquisitions were captured only where a retrieved source stated them (Solis Arx/Fluidstack, the Compass/H&H Digital Gateway rezoning)." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Board of County Supervisors of Prince William County v. Oak Valley Homeowners Association, Inc. — published opinion", "publisher": "Court of Appeals of Virginia", "url": "https://www.vacourts.gov/static/opinions/opncavwp/1584254.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "FauquierNow, Virginia Mercury and Data Center Dynamics could not be retrieved during review and Cardinal News was unavailable during review, so the Warrenton litigation status and the later Pittsylvania filing rest on search-result headlines only.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep partway through, so Stafford, Louisa, Caroline, Henrico/Meta, Mecklenburg, Botetourt and Fauquier follow-up searches were never run." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Judge rules in favor of developer, Prince William County in Devlin data center legal challenge", "publisher": "InsideNoVa", "url": "https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/judge-rules-in-favor-of-developer-prince-william-county-in-devlin-data-center-legal-challenge/article_2d1cceca-2ee2-4122-b10b-73856f465c4e.html", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Amazon taking fight with King George supervisors to court", "publisher": "Fredericksburg Free Press", "url": "https://www.fredericksburgfreepress.com/2025/05/06/amazon-taking-fight-with-king-george-supervisors-to-court/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Data center cancellations 2025", "publisher": "Heatmap News", "url": "https://heatmap.news/politics/data-center-cancellations-2025", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "useful", "coverage_label": "Enough to answer questions", "coverage_summary": "Enough sites and public documents here to look something up and get a real answer.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is still not a list of every data center in the state.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2026-11-18", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "9 published sites here are still being proposed, approved or built, so this state is looked at again 60 days after the recorded evidence check on 2026-09-19.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 90 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-19.", "9 published sites here are still being proposed, approved or built, so this state is looked at again 60 days after the recorded evidence check on 2026-09-19." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 13, "distinct_counties": 6, "multi_source_records": 6 }, { "name": "Washington", "abbr": "WA", "region": "West", "slug": "washington", "url": "/washington/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 3, "facility_count": 2, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The Department of Revenue's exemption eligibility page could not be retrieved during review, so the program's criteria and any participant information were not read.", "No participant or certificate list was located: the exemption's accountability data is filed through annual tax performance reports under RCW 82.32.534, which were not obtained, so no individual exemption recipient is named in the current research record.", "RCW 82.08.986 and Substitute Senate Bill 6231 on expiring data center exemptions were seen only in search results and were not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Tax Revenue & Economic Development Subgroup Findings, adopted by the Data Center Workgroup (Meeting 5)", "publisher": "Washington State Department of Revenue", "url": "https://dor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-10/DataCenterWorkgroup_AdoptedFindingsMeeting5.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "RCW 82.08.986 - Exemptions - Eligible server equipment - Eligible power infrastructure - Computer data centers", "publisher": "Washington State Legislature", "url": "https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=82.08.986", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Substitute Senate Bill 6231 - AN ACT Relating to expiring tax exemptions for data centers", "publisher": "Washington State Legislature", "url": "https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/6231-S.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "chelanpud.org could not be retrieved during review, so no PUD primary record was read.", "No Grant County PUD or Douglas County PUD commission agenda, minutes, rate schedule or service agreement was obtained.", "No Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission docket was searched; the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before that family could be worked.", "The 2022 Puget Sound Energy interconnection filing said to describe a 958 MW Goldendale data center was not located or read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Douglas County PUD, Microsoft Enter Power Delivery Agreement", "publisher": "KPQ", "url": "https://kpq.com/douglas-county-pud-microsoft-enter-power-delivery-agreement/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Ecology's list covers only facilities Ecology itself regulates; the page states it is not a complete list of every data center in Washington and directs readers to local clean air agencies for other counties. No local clean air agency (for example Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency or Benton Clean Air Agency) was searched.", "The current Microsoft Columbia order 25AQ-E009 was not read; the order read for that site, 22AQ-E006, is listed as rescinded.", "Approval orders for the East Wenatchee, Cle Elum, Ellensburg, Moses Lake and Olympia sites were not downloaded; those research leads rest on the Ecology list entry alone.", "No water withdrawal, discharge, stormwater or building permit record was searched for any Washington data center." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data centers - Air quality (list of data centers regulated or reviewed by Ecology, by city, with approval order numbers)", "publisher": "Washington State Department of Ecology", "url": "https://ecology.wa.gov/air-climate/air-quality/data-centers", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Notice of Construction Approval Order No. 26AQ-E016 and Technical Support Document, Intergate Quincy - Sabey Data Center Properties", "publisher": "Washington State Department of Ecology, Eastern Region Office", "url": "https://ecology.wa.gov/getattachment/af601a75-5bd5-410c-8a47-dcef65b517ca/20260406SabeyInterNOCTSD.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Notice of Construction Approval Order No. 22AQ-E006 and Technical Support Document, Microsoft Corporation - Columbia Data Center", "publisher": "Washington State Department of Ecology, Eastern Region Office", "url": "https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Doc-Assets/Air-quality/Data-Centers/Microsoft-Columbia-data-center/20220927MicrosoftColumbiaData-Center22AQE006", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No county assessor or GIS parcel record was queried anywhere in Washington; every parcel-level fact in the current research record comes from a permit or a dataset, not an assessor.", "No City of Quincy, Grant County, Douglas County, Chelan County or Pierce County planning or council record was searched.", "The Walla Walla County staff report, SEPA checklist and site plan behind SDP26-01 were not obtained, so no parcel number, building count or capacity figure is available for that project.", "The City of Cle Elum data center ban and the Blue Fern development agreement were not read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Amazon Data Center FAQs", "publisher": "Walla Walla County Community Development Department", "url": "https://www.wwcowa.gov/government/community_development/amazon_data_center_faqs.php", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No port, city or county agreement document was retrieved for any Washington site.", "The Port of Walla Walla resolution approving the Amazon land sale was not located; it is known only through the county FAQ and the dataset.", "The City of Richland option agreement for the Atlas Agro campus was not obtained.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before this family could be searched directly; the one logged query was run while reviewing Oregon and surfaced the Port of Walla Walla overview document." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Port of Walla Walla - Wallula Gap Business Park overview (2023)", "publisher": "Port of Walla Walla", "url": "https://www.portwallawalla.com/images/pdf/real_estate/2023_Port_of_Walla_Walla_-_Overview_WGBP.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No hyperscaler or colocation operator location page was opened for Washington (Microsoft, Amazon, Sabey, Vantage, CyrusOne, H5, NTT DATA, Serverfarm, Centeris, Digital Realty).", "The Bitdeer Form 20-F property section was not read.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before this family could be searched directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Form 6-K Exhibit 99.2, Material Change Report dated November 13, 2025: Bitfarms Announces Plans for Conversion of Washington Site to HPC/AI Workloads", "publisher": "Bitfarms Ltd., filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1812477/000121390025109575/ea026548201ex99-2_bitfarms.htm", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Bitdeer Technologies Group FY2025 Form 20-F, Item 4.D Property", "publisher": "Bitdeer Technologies Group, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1899123/000121390026049770/ea0282628-20f_bitdeer.htm", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Nine Salcido Enterprises crypto-mining records across Grant, Chelan and Douglas Counties were reviewed in the extract table and left out as crypto mining with no evidenced AI or HPC conversion; only one crypto site (Merkle Standard Usk) was carried forward as an explicit rejection.", "Three power_generation records in the extract (Energy Northwest Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, Goldendale Energy Storage Project, Helion Orion) were reviewed and left out as generation projects rather than data centers.", "Seattle, Tukwila and Spokane colocation records (Digital Realty SEA1, Sabey Intergate.East Buildings 1 and 5, Sabey Intergate.West Buildings A and C, H5 Seattle, Lumen Spokane, TierPoint Spokane) were not individually examined and are not research leads.", "No directory listing service was consulted in the current review." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas extract for Washington (45 records), snapshot 71df145", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The Giga Watt bankruptcy docket and the Port of Douglas County record of the site's future use were not obtained; the CoinDesk report was not yet reviewed directly.", "The rescinded Ecology approval orders were not downloaded, so what changed between each order and its replacement is unread.", "No withdrawn or denied Washington data center land use application was located; the Walla Walla County application was delayed by an incomplete-application notice but not denied.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before this family could be searched directly." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Notice of Construction Approval Order No. 20AQ-E022 (rescinded), Sabey Data Center - Quincy", "publisher": "Washington State Department of Ecology", "url": "https://ecology.wa.gov/Asset-Collections/Doc-Assets/Air-quality/NOC/Notice-of-Construction-applications/20200916SabeyDataCenterAO20AQE22", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No systematic Washington news sweep was performed.", "The Columbia Riverkeeper February 2026 report, cited by the dataset for several Washington capacity figures, was not yet reviewed directly and no figure from it is used." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Walla Walla County halts Amazon data center plans over missing impact studies", "publisher": "Elkhorn Media Group", "url": "https://elkhornmediagroup.com/walla-walla-county-halts-amazon-data-center-plans-over-missing-impact-studies/", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Amazon's permit application for Walla Walla County data center is incomplete", "publisher": "Walla Walla Union-Bulletin", "url": "https://www.union-bulletin.com/news/local/governments/amazon-s-permit-application-for-walla-walla-county-data-center-is-incomplete/article_d44e7fe9-5edd-4827-9ae0-81f8bb978a94.html", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Data Centers: A Closer Look (February 2026 report)", "publisher": "Columbia Riverkeeper", "url": "https://www.columbiariverkeeper.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2026.02.26-Data-Center-Closer-Look-Report.pdf", "evidence_class": "advocacy_or_research" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-16", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-17.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-17." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 6, "distinct_counties": 2, "multi_source_records": 3 }, { "name": "West Virginia", "abbr": "WV", "region": "South", "slug": "west-virginia", "url": "/west-virginia/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No certification document for any High Impact Intelligence Center or certified microgrid district was obtained, only the announcement that one was granted.", "The Governor's news index as rendered showed no Google, Monarch, Mason County or Putnam County item, so the state certifications reported for two Mason County projects were not read." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Governor Morrisey Announces $4 Billion Private Investment in West Virginia's First High Impact Intelligence Center", "publisher": "Office of the Governor of West Virginia", "url": "https://governor.wv.gov/article/governor-morrisey-announces-4-billion-private-investment-west-virginias-first-high-impact", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Governor Morrisey's AI Strategy Positions West Virginia for Reported $45 Billion Agreement", "publisher": "Office of the Governor of West Virginia", "url": "https://governor.wv.gov/article/governor-morriseys-ai-strategy-positions-west-virginia-reported-45-billion-agreement", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "News", "publisher": "Office of the Governor of West Virginia", "url": "https://governor.wv.gov/news", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No WVPSC case, order, tariff or electric service agreement was read, including the Mon Power Maidsville Energy Center docket in which a consultant is reported to have testified about data center cost allocation.", "No certified microgrid district filing was reached." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Internet Browse of WVPSC Docket — case search", "publisher": "Public Service Commission of West Virginia", "url": "https://www.psc.state.wv.us/scripts/WebDocket/viewCaseForWebSearch.cfm", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The Adams Fork permits R13-3714 and R13-3715 and the Ridgeline air permit are not on the pending application list and their documents were not located; the DAQ public notice page carries only planning-section notices.", "No issued permit, engineering evaluation or draft permit determination was retrieved for either data center application.", "No water, stormwater or construction permit was searched for any West Virginia data center." ], "sources": [ { "title": "NSR Permit Applications", "publisher": "West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Air Quality", "url": "https://dep.wv.gov/daq/permitting/Pages/NSR-Permit-Applications.aspx", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Permit application R13-3782 — Cumulus Group LLC; Buffalo (facility 079-00208)", "publisher": "West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Air Quality", "url": "https://apps.dep.wv.gov/Documents/DAQ/NSRPermits/079-00208/Draft/079-00208APP.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Permit application R14-0042 — Monarch Cloud Campus, LLC, Point Pleasant Campus (facility 053-00136)", "publisher": "West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Air Quality", "url": "https://apps.dep.wv.gov/Documents/DAQ/NSRPermits/053-00136/Draft/053-00136_APPLICATION_R14-0042.pdf", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Berkeley County, Tucker County and Mason County websites did not respond; no county planning, zoning or assessor record was read for any West Virginia research lead.", "No parcel identifier was obtained for any West Virginia research lead.", "The Berkeley County approval reported for the QTS Kearneysville complex and the Jefferson County parcel status were not confirmed against county records." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Berkeley County Council", "publisher": "Berkeley County, West Virginia", "url": "https://www.berkeleycountycomm.org/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No High Impact Intelligence Center certification document, microgrid district designation order or county agreement naming a West Virginia data center was read.", "The property tax exoneration reported by the dataset for the Blacksville bitcoin mining site was not confirmed against a county commission record." ], "sources": [ { "title": "West Virginia state portal", "publisher": "State of West Virginia", "url": "https://westvirginia.gov/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Nscale, Penzance, QTS, Fundamental Data and TransGas operator pages were not yet reviewed directly.", "No hyperscaler location page was checked for a West Virginia site." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Nscale and Microsoft Announce Collaboration with NVIDIA and Caterpillar to Deliver 1.35GW of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs at Flagship AI Factory Campus in West Virginia", "publisher": "Nscale", "url": "https://www.nscale.com/press-releases/nscale-west-virginia-ai-factory", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "No unlicensed directory listing was consulted for West Virginia." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for West Virginia", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No archived or historical search was performed; the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy page documenting the Ridgeline land-ownership dispute and permit appeal was identified but not yet reviewed directly.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before West Virginia, so no targeted search for withdrawn or denied West Virginia projects was possible." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Tucker County Data Center \"Ridgeline Facility\"", "publisher": "West Virginia Highlands Conservancy", "url": "https://www.wvhighlands.org/tucker-county-data-center-ridgeline-facility/", "evidence_class": "advocacy_or_research" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before West Virginia, so news discovery relied entirely on the dataset extract's own source lists and none of those articles was retrieved." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Bitcoin mining data centers set up shop in abandoned West Virginia coal mines", "publisher": "WBOY", "url": "https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/bitcoin-mining-data-centers-set-up-shop-in-abandoned-west-virginia-coal-mines/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 2, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Wisconsin", "abbr": "WI", "region": "Midwest", "slug": "wisconsin", "url": "/wisconsin/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-11", "last": "2026-09-11" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "WEDC certification letters, application files and any award amounts were not located.", "WEDC's wider press archive was not swept for other data center announcements because the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Qualified Data Center Exemption (guidance 100318)", "publisher": "Wisconsin Department of Revenue", "url": "https://www.revenue.wi.gov/Pages/FAQS/ExemptionforQualifiedDataCenter.aspx", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Data Center Sales and Use Tax Exemption program page", "publisher": "Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation", "url": "https://wedc.org/programs/data-center-sales-and-use-tax-exemption/", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Meta, state and local officials announce $1 billion data center investment in Beaver Dam project", "publisher": "Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation", "url": "https://wedc.org/meta-state-and-local-officials-announce-1-billion-data-center-investment-in-beaver-dam-project/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Every apps.psc.wi.gov docket page could not be retrieved during review, so no filings, electric service agreements, load forecasts or MW figures were read.", "Docket 6680-TE-115 and the ATC Ozaukee County interconnection docket were not read.", "Alliant and other utility large-load tariff filings could not be searched in the current review." ], "sources": [ { "title": "PSC Overhauls We Energies' Data Center Tariff, Makes Improvements to Protect Existing Customers", "publisher": "Public Service Commission of Wisconsin", "url": "https://psc.wi.gov/Documents/PressReleases/04.24.2026PressRelease.PDF", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No statewide DNR air permit search was run for other data center generator permits (Microsoft Mount Pleasant, Meta Beaver Dam, colocation sites); the permit search portal was not queried because the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep and no direct query URL was known.", "Individual permit PDFs, the environmental analysis summary and the WEPA compliance determination were not downloaded.", "No generator megawatt total appears in the DNR pages read, so no generation capacity is recorded." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Port Washington Data Center Proposal — Environmental Impact Analysis", "publisher": "Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources", "url": "https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/EIA/Portwashington.html", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Air Management Permit Tracking — facility 38402", "publisher": "Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources", "url": "https://apps.dnr.wi.gov/warp_ext/AM_PermitTracking2.aspx?id=38402", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Port Washington and Kenosha municipal sites could not be retrieved during review and Beaver Dam's document centre refused connections, so no minutes, ordinances or staff reports were read for those cities.", "No assessor or GIS parcel records were queried for any Wisconsin site; no parcel IDs were captured.", "Caledonia's homepage contained no data center material and no case file was located." ], "sources": [ { "title": "QTS Data Centers — Potential Data Center Development (project page and timeline)", "publisher": "Village of DeForest", "url": "https://www.engagedeforest.com/QTS", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Village of Caledonia website", "publisher": "Village of Caledonia", "url": "https://www.caledonia-wi.gov/", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No TID project plan, development agreement or PILOT document was read for Beaver Dam, Port Washington, Mount Pleasant, Kenosha or the Town of Beloit.", "Wisconsin Watch articles on community nondisclosure agreements and the Port Washington TIF referendum could not be retrieved during review, so the four communities that signed secrecy deals were not identified.", "Searches for the Port Washington TID and development agreement could not be run in the current review." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Data Center Information fact sheet (DocumentCenter View 2458)", "publisher": "City of Beaver Dam", "url": "https://www.ci.beaverdam.wi.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2458", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The EdgeConneX Madison page could not be retrieved during review.", "Amazon Web Services, Google, Oracle and Apple location pages were not checked for Wisconsin sites.", "Colocation operators absent from Compute Atlas were not enumerated." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hello, Beaver Dam!", "publisher": "Meta", "url": "https://datacenters.atmeta.com/2025/11/hello-beaver-dam/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "OpenAI, Oracle and Vantage Data Centers Announce Stargate Data Center Site in Wisconsin", "publisher": "Vantage Data Centers", "url": "https://vantage-dc.com/news/openai-oracle-and-vantage-data-centers-announce-stargate-data-center-site-in-wisconsin/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" }, { "title": "Microsoft completes construction on first datacenter facility in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin", "publisher": "Microsoft", "url": "https://news.microsoft.com/source/2026/06/23/microsoft-completes-construction-on-first-datacenter-facility-in-mount-pleasant-wisconsin/", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Directory listings cited by Compute Atlas (Baxtel, datacenterHawk, datacentermap) were not yet reviewed directly.", "No other licensed dataset was consulted for Wisconsin." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas facilities dataset — Wisconsin extract", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No municipal withdrawal letter, denial or rescission record was read for any of these projects.", "WTMJ's year-end review (unavailable during review) and three DataCenterDynamics articles (unavailable during review) were not read.", "Wisconsin Watch follow-ups on Cassville and Cloverleaf Carlton could not be retrieved during review." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Microsoft scraps plans for Caledonia data center site, working to find an alternate location", "publisher": "Wisconsin Public Radio", "url": "https://www.wpr.org/news/microsoft-caledonia-data-center-site-ozaukee-county", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia after community pushback", "publisher": "TMJ4", "url": "https://www.tmj4.com/news/racine-county/microsoft-pulls-plug-on-plans-for-244-acre-data-center-in-caledonia-after-community-pushback", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Menomonie mayor puts $1.6B data center proposal on hold", "publisher": "Wisconsin Public Radio", "url": "https://www.wpr.org/news/menomonie-mayor-puts-data-center-proposal-on-hold", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No general news sweep was possible after the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep; discovery after that point followed Compute Atlas source URLs and links inside retrieved pages only." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Microsoft Plans Kenosha, Wisconsin, Data Center Operations", "publisher": "Area Development", "url": "https://www.areadevelopment.com/newsItems/2-1-2025/microsoft-kenosha-wisconsin.shtml", "evidence_class": "news_media" }, { "title": "Another billion-dollar Wisconsin data center is eyed for Cassville in Grant County", "publisher": "PBS Wisconsin (Wisconsin Watch)", "url": "https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/another-billion-dollar-wisconsin-data-center-is-eyed-for-cassville-in-grant-county/", "evidence_class": "news_media" } ] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 2, "distinct_counties": 1, "multi_source_records": 1 }, { "name": "Wyoming", "abbr": "WY", "region": "West", "slug": "wyoming", "url": "/wyoming/", "status": "research-pending", "project_count": 1, "facility_count": 0, "project_discovery_count": 0, "facility_discovery_count": 0, "other_discovery_count": 0, "discovery_count": 0, "note": "Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.", "research": { "retrieval_dates": { "first": "2026-09-12", "last": "2026-09-12" }, "scope": "The current review covers the source families and selected records listed below. It is not a complete state inventory.", "family_audit": [ { "name": "economic_development_incentives", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "The Wyoming Business Council's own certification files and any certificate numbers were not retrieved.", "Business Ready Community grant awards and Wyoming State Loan and Investment Board records were not searched.", "Cheyenne LEADS project records were not searched.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep for Wyoming, so all Wyoming sources were found by following dataset source lists and site navigation rather than by keyword search." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Wyoming Business Council materials prepared for the Joint Minerals, Business and Economic Development Committee, 5 June 2026 — Data Center Sales Tax Exemption Eligibility Certification", "publisher": "Wyoming Business Council / Wyoming Legislature", "url": "https://wyoleg.gov/InterimCommittee/2026/09-202606049-05WBCMaterialsPreparedforJointMinerals06052026.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Wyoming Business Council Programs & Services materials, Joint Minerals Committee packet, June 2026 (Data Center Sales Tax Exemption Eligibility Certification recipient list)", "publisher": "Wyoming Business Council / Wyoming Legislature", "url": "https://wyoleg.gov/InterimCommittee/2026/02-2026062202-02_WBCMaterials.pdf", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "utility_commission_large_load", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "The commission's docket search, e-filings and orders systems were not reached, so no Wyoming large-load docket was found.", "Black Hills Energy / Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power and Rocky Mountain Power Wyoming tariff filings were not read.", "No interconnection or large-load queue record was reached." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Wyoming Public Service Commission website", "publisher": "Wyoming Public Service Commission", "url": "https://psc.wyo.gov/", "evidence_class": "utility_docket" } ] }, { "name": "environmental_construction_permits", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Wyoming air quality permit or Industrial Siting Council permit was retrieved for any data center, including the large Cheyenne-area projects that plainly need them.", "The DEQ document search and public comment portals are script-driven and were not used.", "Water and county building permits were not searched." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Wyoming DEQ Air Quality Division public notices", "publisher": "Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://deq.wyoming.gov/aqd/public-notices/", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" }, { "title": "Wyoming DEQ Industrial Siting Division — Permitting", "publisher": "Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality", "url": "https://deq.wyoming.gov/industrial-siting-2/permitting/", "evidence_class": "permit_or_filing" } ] }, { "name": "municipal_planning_assessor_gis", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "laramiecountywy.gov and cheyennecity.org could not be reached by direct access, but were readable through an alternate access method and the linked county memo PDF was not retrieved.", "No county commissioners' agenda or minutes were opened, so the Laramie County approvals reported for the Cheyenne-area campuses are not in evidence.", "The City of Cheyenne annexation ordinance for the Microsoft land purchase was not retrieved.", "Uinta, Converse and Natrona county land-use files were not yet reviewed directly.", "No assessor or GIS parcel record was queried anywhere in Wyoming." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Public Notice: Project Tembo Data Center Site Plan and Conditional Use Permit", "publisher": "Laramie County, Wyoming", "url": "https://www.laramiecountywy.gov/Public-Notices/Project-Tembo-Data-Center", "evidence_class": "government_record" }, { "title": "Laramie County Public Notices index", "publisher": "Laramie County, Wyoming", "url": "https://www.laramiecountywy.gov/County-Government/Public-Notices", "evidence_class": "government_record" } ] }, { "name": "tax_abatement_development_agreements", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No Business Ready Community grant agreement or county development agreement was retrieved.", "Wyoming State Loan and Investment Board and state land board records were not searched." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "operator_disclosures", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "Meta, Microsoft, Google, Related Digital, Tallgrass, Prometheus Hyperscale and Cogent pages were not yet reviewed directly.", "the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before Wyoming, so operator pages were reached only through dataset source lists." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Lunavi Cheyenne Data Center", "publisher": "Lunavi", "url": "https://www.lunavi.com/data-centers/cheyenne", "evidence_class": "company_disclosure" } ] }, { "name": "open_datasets_directories", "status": "searched", "gaps": [ "Four Compute Atlas Wyoming records were deliberately not made research leads because they are power generation rather than data centers: Tallgrass Cheyenne Power Hub, Seminoe Generating Station, TerraPower Natrium Kemmerer and Enbridge Cowboy Solar and BESS.", "The relationship between the Tallgrass Cheyenne Power Hub generation record and the Project Tembo data center record, which share a 2,700 MW figure, was not resolved.", "No commercial directory was consulted." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Compute Atlas state extract for Wyoming (snapshot 71df145)", "publisher": "Compute Atlas", "url": "https://github.com/ek33450505/compute-atlas/blob/71df145759059406028226326dce6154f5f5f933/data/facilities.json", "evidence_class": "licensed_open_dataset" } ] }, { "name": "historical_closures_withdrawals_names", "status": "searched_partial", "gaps": [ "No town, county or court record confirming the Highwire cancellation was read.", "The Wyoming Hyperscale Whitebox to Prometheus Hyperscale rename was not confirmed from a corporate filing or the Secretary of State.", "The Project Jade to Project Tembo rename rests on a dataset record id and its cited reporting, neither of which was opened." ], "sources": [] }, { "name": "news_and_other_discovery", "status": "not_searched", "gaps": [ "WyoFile, Cowboy State Daily, Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Oil City News and County 17 reporting on the Cheyenne-area projects was not yet reviewed directly." ], "sources": [] } ] }, "coverage_level": "anchor", "coverage_label": "A few checked sites", "coverage_summary": "Only a few sites are listed here. Each one is backed by a public document you can open.", "coverage_not_a_census": "This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.", "coverage_basis": "approved", "next_review": "2027-03-12", "review_overdue": false, "next_review_reason": "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13.", "review_rules": [ "States at this level are looked at again every 180 days, counted from the last evidence check on 2026-09-13." ], "hold_reasons": [], "distinct_sources": 1, "distinct_counties": 0, "multi_source_records": 0 } ], "publication": { "license": null, "reuse_scope": "reference only unless a record is explicitly rights-cleared", "rights_manifest": "/data/rights-manifest.json" } }