Data Center Neighbor

Nationwide tracking layer

U.S. data center project tracker

Follow a growing set of significant projects from proposal through permitting, construction, and operation. Every record shows its evidence date and what to check next.

This is a growing national evidence queue, not a claim to list every data center in the country. Projects are included when there is a useful public source trail and a concrete stage neighbors can follow. A company announcement alone does not make a proposal approved. If your state has no pin yet, use the all-states directory to start the record.

Project impact explorer

Where it is—and what reaches beyond the property line

Select a marker to see the project’s documented scale, evidence date, and the records that still need watching. Pins show approximate localities unless a project record says otherwise.

Loading the interactive project map. Every project is also available in the accessible list below.

  1. Closest to the siteLand use, buffers, noise, stormwater
  2. Along local routesConstruction traffic, road safety, emergency access
  3. Across the utility systemNew generation, transmission, cost allocation, rates
  4. Across the tax districtIncentives, school revenue, jobs, public commitments

Why there is no generic impact circle: noise contours, watersheds, truck routes, tax districts, and utility territories are different shapes. A single mile radius would look precise while saying very little. This map will add those layers only when a public record defines them.

Showing 20 projects in 18 states.
Proposed / pre-approval

Carrollton Poe / PowerHouse campus

Carrollton, Kentucky · Carroll County

Operator: Operator not announced

A large proposed campus east of I-71 with a city development agreement but land sales and major approvals still incomplete.[1]

Evidence checked

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Proposed

DECA Carroll County project

Near Ghent, Kentucky · Carroll County

Operator: Operator not announced

A second, separate Carroll County proposal whose public record is still thinner than the Carrollton project.[2]

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Under construction / expanding

Meta Hyperion

Holly Ridge area, Louisiana · Richland Parish

Operator: Meta

Meta’s largest announced AI campus is under construction and was expanded again in July 2026.[3]

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Construction / air permitting

Amazon Energy Way Tech Campus

Hamlet, North Carolina · Richmond County

Operator: Amazon Data Services

A major Amazon campus with active construction-related work and air permits for temporary bridge power and permanent emergency generation.[4]

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Permitting

Amazon Falls Township campus

Falls Township, Pennsylvania · Bucks County

Operator: Amazon Web Services

One of the first Pennsylvania campuses in Amazon’s statewide investment, now in state air-permit review.[6]

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Under construction

Meta LEAP campus

Lebanon, Indiana · Boone County

Operator: Meta

A multi-phase Meta campus that broke ground at Indiana’s LEAP district in February 2026.[8]

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Under construction

Meta Cheyenne Data Center

Cheyenne, Wyoming · Laramie County

Operator: Meta

A Meta campus under construction in a city that is also tracking many other operating, building, and proposed data centers.[21]

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Partly operational / expanding

Stargate Abilene

Abilene, Texas · Taylor County

Operator: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure / OpenAI

The flagship Stargate campus is already running AI systems while the larger buildout continues.[22]

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Under construction

Meta Aiken Data Center

Graniteville / Sage Mill Industrial Park, South Carolina · Aiken County

Operator: Meta

Meta’s first South Carolina data center is under construction with a projected spring 2027 opening.[12]

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Under construction

Google West Memphis campus

West Memphis, Arkansas · Crittenden County

Operator: Google

Google is constructing a large campus in West Memphis alongside new utility, solar, and battery commitments.[13]

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Under construction / completion unconfirmed

Meta Montgomery Data Center

Montgomery, Alabama · Montgomery County

Operator: Meta

A Meta campus announced with active construction staffing; this tracker has not confirmed its final opening milestone.[14]

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Under construction / opening pending

Meta Rosemount Data Center

Rosemount, Minnesota · Dakota County

Operator: Meta

Meta lists a 2024 groundbreaking in Rosemount; an operational milestone still needs direct confirmation.[15]

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Existing operations / expanding

AWS Madison County campuses

Madison County / Ridgeland area, Mississippi · Madison County

Operator: Amazon Web Services

Amazon announced a new expansion of its existing Madison County data center operations in April 2026.[16]

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Announced / location details pending

Stargate Doña Ana County site

Doña Ana County, New Mexico · Doña Ana County

Operator: Oracle / OpenAI partnership

OpenAI named Doña Ana County as one of its new Oracle-developed Stargate locations, but public site details remain thin.[10]

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Groundbreaking documented

Stargate Lordstown site

Lordstown, Ohio · Trumbull County

Operator: OpenAI / SoftBank partnership

OpenAI says SoftBank has broken ground on a Stargate site in Lordstown.[10]

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Under construction / multi-project campus

Quantum Frederick campus

Adamstown / Frederick area, Maryland · Frederick County

Operator: Multiple operators, including Amazon and Aligned

A large brownfield redevelopment where multiple companies are building separate data centers under separate records.[23]

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Campus development / construction

AWS Louisa County campuses

Louisa County technology overlay district, Virginia · Louisa County

Operator: Amazon Web Services

Two AWS campuses are planned inside Louisa County’s technology overlay district.[19]

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Under construction

Meta El Paso Data Center

Northeast El Paso, Texas · El Paso County

Operator: Meta

Meta and BlackRock confirmed a large campus under construction in El Paso with capacity expected to begin coming online in 2028.[20]

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Sources for this page

  1. Carroll News-Democrat / Madison Courier (Paxton Media Group)

    Carrollton reaches agreement for $9.6B data center

    July 29, 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://www.madisoncourier.com/carroll_news_democrat/news/carrollton-reaches-agreement-for-9-6b-data-center/article_f616dd07-b3b7-53dd-a9e8-4824c9263043.html

    Local newspaper. The only outlet reporting several Carroll County details on this site. Paxton Media Group owns both mastheads, so a second Paxton article is not an independent confirmation.

  2. Carroll News-Democrat / Madison Courier (Paxton Media Group)not verified

    DECA proposing $4B data center in Carroll County

    July 23, 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://www.madisoncourier.com/carroll_news_democrat/

    Direct article URL was not recorded in our source pass, so the link goes to the outlet’s Carroll County section. Same owner as the July 29 story above. Treat both as one outlet.

  3. Meta

    Teachers and Local Businesses Win as Meta Expands Louisiana Data Center

    July 20, 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/teachers-local-businesses-win-as-meta-expands-louisiana-data-center/

    Meta is the project owner. Investment, capacity, job, and community-benefit claims on this page are the company’s own claims.

    Primary company update confirming the Richland Parish expansion to 5 GW and more than $50 billion of announced investment.

  4. North Carolina Department of Commerce

    Governor Stein Announces Amazon Plans to Invest $10 Billion in North Carolina for AI Infrastructure

    June 4, 2025. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://www.commerce.nc.gov/news/press-releases/2025/06/04/governor-stein-announces-amazon-plans-invest-10-billion-north-carolina-ai-infrastructure

    State economic-development announcement produced to promote the investment. Its investment and job figures originate with Amazon and the state.

    Official state announcement identifying Richmond County and the planned investment.

  5. North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality

    Joint public hearing on Amazon data center and Duke Energy air quality permits in Richmond County

    June 26, 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    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

    Primary state permitting notice identifying the Energy Way Tech Campus, its bridge-power proposal, emergency generators, hearing, and comment deadline.

  6. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    Amazon plans to invest $20 billion in Pennsylvania for AI infrastructure

    June 9, 2025. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://www.pa.gov/governor/newsroom/2025-press-releases/gov-announces-amazon-to-invest--20b-in-pa--largest-capital-inves

    State economic-development announcement produced to promote the investment. The $20 billion figure covers multiple Pennsylvania campuses, not Falls Township alone.

    Official state announcement naming Falls Township and Salem Township as the first sites.

  7. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

    Community meeting on proposed air quality permit for Amazon Data Center in Falls Township

    July 13, 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dep/newsroom/2026-07-13-dep-to-host-community-meeting-on-proposed-air-quality-permit-for-amazon-data-center-bucks-county

    Primary state permitting update for the Keystone Trade Center site and its proposed backup-generation plan.

  8. Indiana Economic Development Corporation

    Groundbreaking for Meta data center campus at LEAP District

    February 11, 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://iedc.in.gov/events/news/details/2026/02/11/gov.-braun-breaks-ground-on-10b-meta-data-center-campus-at-leap-district

    State economic-development announcement produced with Meta. Investment and employment projections are company and state claims.

    Official state account of the groundbreaking, planned campus scale, phases, jobs, and tax exemption.

  9. Meta Data Centers

    Hello, Cheyenne!

    July 2, 2024. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://datacenters.atmeta.com/2024/07/hello-cheyenne/

    Meta is the project owner. Investment, size, and employment figures are the company’s own projections.

    Primary company announcement for the Cheyenne campus.

  10. OpenAI

    OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites

    September 23, 2025. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://openai.com/index/five-new-stargate-sites/

    OpenAI is a principal project partner. Capacity and investment totals are company announcements covering multiple Stargate sites.

    Primary company update describing the operating Abilene flagship and announced sites in New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, and the Midwest. Combined capacity and investment figures must not be treated as site-specific totals.

  11. Microsoft

    Microsoft completes construction on first datacenter facility in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin

    June 23, 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://news.microsoft.com/source/2026/06/23/microsoft-completes-construction-on-first-datacenter-facility-in-mount-pleasant-wisconsin/

    Microsoft is the project owner. Investment and employment figures are the company’s own account.

    Primary company update confirming the first facility is operational and a second is under construction.

  12. South Carolina Department of Commerce

    Meta selects Aiken County for first South Carolina data center

    August 29, 2024. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://www.sccommerce.com/ja/node/8034

    State economic-development announcement produced with Meta. Investment, jobs, and opening date are projections.

    Official state announcement identifying the Sage Mill Industrial Park site and expected spring 2027 opening.

  13. Arkansas Economic Development Commission

    Google locating new data center in West Memphis with multi-billion-dollar investment

    October 2, 2025. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    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

    State economic-development announcement produced with Google. Investment, employment, energy, and ratepayer claims are the state and company’s account.

    Official state announcement confirming construction, the West Memphis location, site acreage, and announced energy arrangements.

  14. Meta Data Centers

    Hello, Montgomery!

    May 2, 2024. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://datacenters.atmeta.com/2024/05/hello-montgomery/

    Meta is the project owner. Investment, size, employment, energy, and sustainability statements are the company’s own claims.

    Primary company announcement identifying the Montgomery campus and documenting construction activity and planned scale.

  15. Meta Data Centers

    United States data center locations: Rosemount

    Current location directory checked August 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://datacenters.atmeta.com/us-locations/

    Meta is the project owner. Investment, jobs, and construction milestones are the company’s own account.

    Primary company location directory listing the Rosemount project, its 2024 groundbreaking, and announced investment.

  16. Office of the Governor of Mississippi

    Amazon continues Mississippi expansion

    April 9, 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://governorreeves.ms.gov/amazon-continues-mississippi-expansion-announcing-plans-to-invest-a-total-of-25-billion-across-the-magnolia-state/

    State economic-development announcement produced to promote Amazon’s investment. Investment and job figures are state and company projections.

    Official state announcement identifying an additional Madison County expansion of existing Amazon data center operations.

  17. Meta

    Breaking ground on a new AI-optimized data center in Tulsa, Oklahoma

    April 21, 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://about.fb.com/news/2026/04/breaking-ground-new-ai-optimized-data-center-tulsa-oklahoma/

    Meta is the project owner. Investment, employment, water, energy, and community-benefit statements are the company’s own claims.

    Primary company announcement confirming the Tulsa groundbreaking and announced project scale.

  18. Maryland Department of the Environment

    Frederick Data Center Sampling and Reports

    Updated through 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://mde.maryland.gov/datacenters/Pages/FrederickDataCenter.aspx

    Primary state record identifying the Quantum Frederick site, individual developers, environmental conditions, and permit documents.

  19. Louisa County, Virginia

    Amazon Web Services announces plan to invest in Louisa County

    August 30, 2023. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://louisacounty.gov/m/newsflash/home/detail/446

    County economic-development announcement produced with AWS. Investment, employment, tax, and community-benefit statements are county and company projections.

    Official county announcement identifying two planned AWS campuses and the county technology overlay district.

  20. Meta

    Meta announces new strategic venture with BlackRock to develop data center in El Paso

    July 28, 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/meta-announces-new-venture-with-blackrock-to-develop-data-center-in-el-paso/

    Meta is the project owner and initial sole occupant. Investment, capacity, employment, and schedule statements are the company’s own account.

    Primary current company update confirming construction, announced capacity, financing structure, and target for bringing capacity online.

  21. City of Cheyenne

    Data Centers: local projects, utilities, water, and planning

    Updated through May 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://www.cheyennecity.org/Your-Government/Departments/Planning-and-Development-Department/Data-Centers

    Primary city resource with counts and a map of operating, under-construction, and proposed projects. It identifies Meta in the High Plains Business Park.

  22. OpenAI

    Building the compute infrastructure for the Intelligence Age

    April 29, 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://openai.com/index/building-the-compute-infrastructure-for-the-intelligence-age/

    OpenAI is a principal user and partner in Stargate. Water and community-benefit statements are the company’s own account.

    Primary company update confirming that the Abilene site is operating on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

  23. Frederick County, Maryland

    Data Centers

    Updated July 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026.

    https://frederickcountymd.gov/9310/Data-Centers

    Primary county hub documenting current construction, the temporary pause on new applications, project maps, road notices, and local concern contacts.