Tennessee index · last changed 1 November 2026

Tennessee data centers: what the public record shows.

Selected source-linked records are published below. This is not a complete inventory of Tennessee data centers.

8 sourced policy records for Tennessee ↓Facility register: 51 records · by county →1 published DataCenterData record · evidence status shown per row47 licensed directory leads · not independently verifiedThese counts overlap and are not added together

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Map, listings and checked facts.

Start with 47 licensed source leads, then inspect the separate public-evidence layer below. Licensed rows are not independently verified and are not a statewide census.

Tennessee map

Reported locations in Tennessee

47 licensed rows · 16 source localities · 4 map targets

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TN24 licensed rows in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metro Area · 8 source locality labels · opens the Tennessee interactive map · symbol offset slightly from its projected anchor for readability2412 licensed rows in the Memphis, TN-MS-AR Metro Area · 2 source locality labels · opens the Tennessee interactive map126 licensed rows in the Chattanooga area · 3 source locality labels · opens the Tennessee interactive map · symbol offset slightly from its projected anchor for readability65 licensed rows in the Knoxville, TN Metro Area · 3 source locality labels · opens the Tennessee interactive map · symbol offset slightly from its projected anchor for readability5
Source-reported points; some are approximate. Not parcel boundaries. Exact Approximate or representative Bounded nearby groupA number on a marker is the count of licensed rows it holds.Licensed layer only (Compute Atlas, source data through 14 October 2026). The interactive map lists 64 data-center source listings here across licensed, operator and DataCenterData layers (47 with a map point); 64 with government registry records. Source listings are not distinct sites.3 symbols are offset slightly for readability; thin connectors retain their projected anchors. Open the interactive map for source coordinates.
Browse 4 mapped areas as links
Map sources and method

The state outline is adapted from the U.S. Census Bureau 2025 cartographic boundary file. Facility coordinates are adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Outline and markers use one geographic projection before any explicitly disclosed readability offset. Exact singleton source anchors are never moved. A one-kilometre boundary tolerance prevents the simplified 1:20,000,000 outline from hiding legitimate border-area source points; farther conflicts are disclosed, not clamped. DataCenterData groups source-reported city coordinates only within a bounded map radius; the outline does not validate a facility record. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).

47 licensed rows16 reported city labels36 eligible organization labels
34source-reported operational8source-reported proposed4source-reported under construction1source-reported permitted

Browse all 47 rows below. Licensed rows are not independently verified and remain separate from the checked public-evidence layer.

Official metro areasNashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN 21 mapped listingsMemphis, TN-MS-AR 15 mapped listings (all states, all layers)Knoxville, TN 5 mapped listingsChattanooga, TN-GA 3 mapped listings (all states, all layers)Clarksville, TN-KY 3 mapped listings (all states, all layers)Cleveland, TN 1 mapped listing
Nashville 13Memphis 11Chattanooga 3Franklin 3Knoxville 3Clarksville 2Gallatin 2McMinnville 2Brentwood 1Cleveland 1Collierville 1Lawrenceburg 1
Counties in the facility registerBradley 1Davidson 13Hamilton 3Knox 3Lawrence 1Loudon 1Montgomery 2Roane 1Rutherford 2Shelby 11Sumner 2Warren 2Williamson 4
Lumen Technologies 4Flexential 3xAI 3DC BLOX 2EdgeConneX 2Peace Communications 25C Data Centers 1Aphorio Carter 1
  1. 5C MEM01 Memphis (former Fred's headquarters)

    5C Data Centers

    4300 Getwell Road · Memphis · Shelby County · Tennessee · 38118

    source-reported operationalReported planned 15 MWReported operational 20 MWSource updated 11 October 2026approximate location
    View lead →Facility record →dcd-dir-000015
  2. Bitdeer Knoxville AI Datacenter (5101 S. National Drive)

    Bitdeer

    Knoxville · Knox County · Tennessee

    source-reported under constructionReported planned 86 MWSource updated 9 September 2026approximate location
    View lead →Facility record →dcd-dir-000190
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Separate layer

Also listed by operators

Sites that operators list on their own websites and that are not rows in the licensed directory above. They are kept apart and never added to the licensed rows.

4 operator-listed sites (mixed units; not added to licensed rows) in Tennessee →

4 of these sites have no supported coordinate. The map does not invent a pin or a metro placement for them.

Tennessee evidence at a glance

A few checked sites

Selected public evidence, not a statewide census. Each row shows whether it is independently source-linked, attributed, or unresolved; licensed leads remain separate.

Published project / campus
1
Published facility / building
0
Attributed or unresolved rows
0
Licensed directory leads
47 not independently verified
Capacity boundary stated
0 of 1 published DataCenterData rows
Review timing
Audit through 12 September 2026 · next 12 March 2027
Known coverage gap

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.

Browse all 47 Tennessee licensed leads → · Why these counts differ →

Campuses

1 campus record. Names are as they appear on each record page.

Campuses published for Tennessee
Record / rolesStatusCapacity / scalePrimary evidence
Meta Gallatin Data CenterOperator: Meta operatingcampus · operator-reported UnknownNo independently supported figureNo primary-source critical IT, utility-service, utility-request, gross-facility or measured-load figure was established. Renewable-generation figures in the sources cover projects beyond this campus and are not campus capacity. Tennessee announcement of Facebook's Gallatin data center →Gov. record

Where the records were checked

Statewide audit pending

A few checked sites

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.

Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.

State research audit window ended 12 September 2026. Individual records and claims below show their own evidence dates and may be newer.

Next scheduled coverage review: 12 March 2027.

1 independently source-linked project/campus record; 0 independently source-linked facility/building records; 0 attributed or unresolved rows. These counts use different units and must not be added together.

Source families checked, selected records and remaining gaps

These notes name selected records, say which kinds of public evidence were checked and show what remains missing. They do not add anything to the published counts.

  • Economic development incentives — Checked
    • 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.

    Selected records

  • Utility commission and large-load records — Partly checked
    • 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.

    Selected records

  • Environmental and construction permits — Partly checked
    • 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.

    Selected records

  • Local planning, assessor and map records — Checked
    • 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.

    Selected records

  • Tax abatements and development agreements — Partly checked
    • 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.

    Selected records

  • Operator disclosures — Partly checked
    • 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.

    Selected records

  • Open datasets and directories — Checked
    • 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.

    Selected records

  • Closures, withdrawals and former names — Partly checked
    • No Tennessee data center closure, demolition or acquisition was located; the only closure in the extract is a crypto-mining site, which is out of scope.
    • The DC BLOX eminent domain authorization, the developer's suit and the two pending zoning challenges are unevidenced here.
    • No archived operator pages were checked for renamed Tennessee facilities beyond the Facebook to Meta rename.

    Selected records

  • News and other discovery — Not checked
    • No news sweep was performed for Tennessee at all, which is the main reason several large 2024-2026 projects rest only on the dataset extract.

Local evidence by place

Licensed and operator listings, reviewed records, answers and local policy for each place. Listings overlap and are not added; a place without a line here has no published local evidence.

No local evidence answer, reviewed record or local policy record is published for Brentwood, Chattanooga, Clarksville, Cleveland, Collierville, Franklin, Knoxville, Lawrenceburg, McMinnville, Nashville. Their listings above are source listings to investigate. No statewide evidence answer is published for Tennessee either; statewide rules are under Policy tracker below.

1 Tennessee answer is not tied to a published record, so it is not placed here: Tennessee answers.

Policy tracker

Tennessee policy records

8 sourced records are associated with this state context. They are grouped below as current, pending and nonbinding, and history, and each card shows its relevant date. These are not facility counts and do not cover every locality.

Current 1 record

Recorded as in effect on the dataset date. This does not mean every project in a represented state is restricted or approved.

Enacted legislation or regulation · Nashville and Davidson County (Metropolitan Government) only (local rule)

Nashville and Davidson County (Metropolitan Government): zoning code data center use categories and conditions (BL2026-1391)

In effect · Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee · Local

Effective: 31 July 2026

Issuing authority: Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County

Nashville and Davidson County amended its zoning code through BL2026-1391 to add data center uses and related definitions and conditions.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

Pending or nonbinding 5 records

Adopted measures with unverified effect, adopted future measures, open proceedings, proposals, drafts and nonbinding context stay separate from current rules.

Local construction moratorium · Van Buren County only (local rule)

Van Buren County: two-year data center moratorium resolution (Resolution 506)

Adopted; effective status unverified · Van Buren County, Tennessee · Local

Adopted: 20 July 2026

Issuing authority: Van Buren County Commission

On 20 July 2026 the Van Buren County Commission approved Resolution Number 506, which the minutes title a resolution to impose a temporary two-year moratorium on the construction, development, establishment or operation of data centers within Van Buren County.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

Incentive or explicitly supportive policy

Revenue manual section on the qualified data center exemption

Informational—not binding · Tennessee · State

Last checked: 23 September 2026

Issuing authority: Tennessee Department of Revenue

The Department of Revenue's December 2025 sales and use tax manual describes Tennessee's qualified data center exemption for computers, software and related devices, its investment and jobs thresholds, an exemption for backup power and cooling equipment, and a 1.5% sales tax rate on electricity.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

History 2 records

Expired, repealed, vetoed, failed, blocked, superseded and completed measures remain visible without being presented as current.

Legislation introduced (any outcome) · Nashville and Davidson County (Metropolitan Government) only (local rule)

Nashville and Davidson County (Metropolitan Government): data center permit moratorium bill (BL2026-1438, withdrawn)

Did not pass · Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee · Local

Ended: 16 June 2026

Issuing authority: Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County

Metropolitan Council bill BL2026-1438, filed on 9 June 2026 with six sponsors, was an ordinance that would have declared a temporary moratorium on the acceptance, processing, approval and issuance of zoning, building or grading permits for data center developments in Nashville and Davidson County.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

Local construction moratorium · Nashville and Davidson County (Metropolitan Government) only (local rule)

Nashville and Davidson County (Metropolitan Government): temporary data center permit moratorium (BL2026-1448, ended)

Expired · Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee · Local

Ended: 31 July 2026

Issuing authority: Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County

The Metropolitan Council passed BL2026-1448 on third reading as amended on 21 July 2026 and the Mayor approved it on 24 July 2026.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

Federal and multistate

Federal and multistate instruments that cover all or part of Tennessee

These federal, reliability-organization and multistate grid or utility instruments are stored once and listed for every jurisdiction they name. They do not add to the record count, in-effect total or map shading for Tennessee. Territorial coverage does not establish that an instrument applies to any particular site, utility or project.

Reporting or resource-use requirement · Listed coverage: part of Tennessee

PJM: Large Load definition and registry accepted by FERC; capacity and curtailment rules rejected (ER26-3515)

In effect · PJM region (multistate) · Regional grid

Effective: 12 October 2026

Issuing authority: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

On 9 October 2026 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission accepted, effective 12 October 2026, PJM's definition of a Large Load at a cumulative peak of 50 MW and a Large Load Registry that requires load-serving entities to report on the Large Loads they serve, which the order says covers all such loads regardless of in-service date.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

Open the Tennessee policy comparison

Review dates: the 8 Tennessee records were last checked 23 September 2026 to 3 November 2026. 1 scheduled review is overdue as of the tracker date 3 November 2026: Revenue manual section on the qualified data center exemption (last checked 23 September 2026, review due 23 October 2026). Overdue means not re-read yet, not changed. No single record, and not this list, establishes complete statewide policy coverage.