How many AI data center projects are there?

Data Center Index counts 864 AI data center campuses worldwide as of 2026-10-28: 252 operating (20 of them still adding buildings), 219 under construction and 393 announced or permitted. Paused and cancelled projects stay listed with their source but are left out of every count.

How many data centers are under construction in the US?

167 US campuses are under construction, and 16 operating US campuses are still adding buildings, out of 690 tracked across 44 states. The most active building states are Texas (43 campuses), Ohio (22 campuses) and Virginia (21 campuses).

How much data center capacity is being built?

Counted campuses add up to 270.1 GW of planned capacity and $2.2T of stated project cost. The cost total only includes campuses whose developer or a filing published a figure, so the real spend is higher. Capacity nobody publishes is modeled and marked estimated on each project.

Where are the most data center projects?

In the US, Texas (107 campuses), Virginia (94 campuses) and Ohio (48 campuses) lead. Outside the US the directory covers 48 more countries. The largest single campuses are ranked at https://datacenterindex.ai/rankings/largest-data-centers.

AI Data Center Construction Projects

A sourced directory of data center campuses: who is building, where, how big, and how far along. Start with a state, or sort and filter the full list. Every row links to a project page with developer, tenant, capacity, cost and the source behind each figure.

As cited in Newsweek: “Map Shows States Where Biggest Data Centers Are Being Built” (October 2026).

The 50 largest tracked data center projects

Wonder Valley Off-Grid AI Data Center Park, 9 GW, Municipal District of Greenview, Canada · developer: O'Leary Digital · announced · ~$70B
PORTS-Pike Technology Campus, 8 GW, Piketon, OH, United States · developer: SB Energy (SoftBank) · tenant: OpenAI · announced
Nexus Hubbard Campus, 7.7 GW, Hubbard, TX, United States · developer: Nexus Data Centers · tenant: Anthropic · under construction
Stratos Hyperscale Data Center, 7.5 GW, Snowville, UT, United States · developer: O'Leary Digital · announced · ~$100B
Meta Hyperion, 5 GW, Holly Ridge, LA, United States · developer: Meta · under construction · ~$50B
SoftBank France AI Data Center Capacity Program, 5 GW, France · developer: SoftBank · announced
Data City Texas, 5 GW, Laredo, TX, United States · developer: Energy Abundance Development Corporation · announced
Scala AI City (Eldorado do Sul), 4.8 GW, Eldorado do Sul, Brazil · developer: Scala Data Centers · announced · ~$50B
Creekstone Delta Gigasite, 4.6 GW, Delta, UT, United States · developer: Creekstone Energy · under construction · ~$17.1B
Beacon AI Alberta Hyperscale Campuses, 4.5 GW, Calgary & Edmonton Areas, Canada · developer: Beacon AI Centers · announced
Tract Caldwell Valley Technology Park, 4 GW, Uhland, TX, United States · developer: Tract · announced
DCIP Group DeSoto County AI Data Center Campus, 4 GW, Arcadia, FL, United States · developer: DCIP Group · permitted
OpenAI Project Camellia, 3.2 GW, Rincon, GA, United States · developer: OpenAI · announced · ~$20B
Stock Farm Road 3 GW AI Data Center (South Korea), 3 GW, Haenam County, South Korea · developer: Stock Farm Road · paused · ~$10.4B
TECfusions New Kensington AI Campus, 3 GW, Upper Burrell, PA, United States · developer: TECfusions · tenant: TensorWave · operational
Project Thunderbird (Enid), 2.8 GW, Enid, OK, United States · developer: Plainsmen Holdings LLC · announced · ~$35B
Meta–Vistra Nuclear Uprate Agreement (OH/PA), 2.6 GW, Perry, OH, United States · developer: Meta · announced
Quantum Frederick Campus, 2.4 GW, Adamstown, MD, United States · developer: Catellus Development Corporation (TPG Real Estate) · under construction
Tract Hanover Technology Park, 2.4 GW, Ashland, VA, United States · developer: Tract · permitted
AWS Project Rainier (New Carlisle), 2.2 GW, New Carlisle, IN, United States · developer: Amazon Web Services · tenant: Anthropic · operational · ~$13.8B
Project Tamarack (Starwood Mason County Campus), 2.2 GW, West Columbia, WV, United States · developer: Starwood Digital Ventures · announced · ~$12B
Rubix Russell Data Center (former AK Steel Ashland Works), 2 GW, Russell, KY, United States · developer: Rubix Data Centers · announced · ~$12B
Microsoft Pecos (Reeves County), 2 GW, Pecos, TX, United States · developer: Microsoft · announced
Project Horizon, 2 GW, Fort Stockton, TX, United States · developer: Poolside · paused
Aligned Project Phoenix (Shippingport), 2 GW, Shippingport, PA, United States · developer: Aligned Data Centers · under construction
Digital Realty De Soto Campus (Astra Enterprise Park), 2 GW, De Soto, KS, United States · developer: Digital Realty · permitted
MARA Matagorda County Campus, 2 GW, Matagorda County, TX, United States · developer: MARA Holdings · announced
Envision Galaxy Ulanqab, 2 GW, Ulanqab, China · developer: Envision Group · operational
Joliet Technology Center, 1.8 GW, Joliet, IL, United States · developer: PowerHouse Data Centers / Hillwood · permitted · ~$20B
Tract Buckeye Technology Park, 1.8 GW, Buckeye, AZ, United States · developer: Tract · permitted · ~$20B
Google Project Tembo (Cheyenne), 1.8 GW, Cheyenne, WY, United States · developer: Google · permitted · ~$17B
PowerHouse Grand Prairie Campus, 1.8 GW, Grand Prairie, TX, United States · developer: PowerHouse Data Centers / Provident Data Centers · permitted
Tract Eagle Mountain (Pole Canyon), 1.7 GW, Eagle Mountain, UT, United States · developer: Tract · announced · ~$7B
IREN Project Emerald (Kiowa), 1.6 GW, Kiowa, OK, United States · developer: IREN · announced · ~$50B
Wildcat Ridge AI Data Center Campus, 1.6 GW, Archbald, PA, United States · developer: Cornell Realty Management · paused · ~$2.1B
Galaxy Helios, 1.6 GW, Afton, TX, United States · developer: Galaxy Digital · tenant: CoreWeave · operational
Project Red Clay, 1.5 GW, Burkville, AL, United States · developer: Cloverleaf Infrastructure · announced · ~$1.5B
ExxonMobil's 1.5GW Data Center Power Plant Initiative, 1.5 GW, TX, United States · developer: ExxonMobil · announced
NEOM Oxagon Net-Zero AI Data Center (Saudi Arabia), 1.5 GW, Oxagon, Saudi Arabia · developer: DataVolt · under construction
Romania Black Sea AI Gigafactory, 1.5 GW, Cernavodă, Romania · developer: EU EuroHPC & Romanian Consortium · announced
Project River Energy Campus, 1.5 GW, Charleston, TN, United States · developer: Wright Brothers Construction Company · announced
OpenAI Stargate Shackelford, 1.4 GW, Shackelford County, TX, United States · developer: Vantage Data Centers · tenant: Oracle / OpenAI · under construction · ~$25B
Monarch Rock Air Data Center Campus (Rockford), 1.4 GW, Rockford, IL, United States · developer: Monarch Energy · announced · ~$12B
Sweetwater Campus, 1.4 GW, Sweetwater, TX, United States · developer: IREN · under construction
Campus AI (Fouju), 1.4 GW, Fouju, France · developer: MGX · tenant: Mistral AI · under construction
Pennsylvania Digital I (PAX-1), 1.4 GW, Middlesex Township (Carlisle), PA, United States · developer: PowerHouse Data Centers / Pennsylvania Data Center Partners · under construction · ~$15B
Project Bunkhouse (Taurus, Stilesboro), 1.3 GW, Stilesboro, GA, United States · developer: Digital Realty · permitted · ~$18B
Project Bluegrass, 1.3 GW, Burgin, KY, United States · developer: Panattoni Data Centers · announced · ~$1B
Fairfield Energy Center, 1.3 GW, Millersport, OH, United States · developer: Advanced Power · announced
Stillwater Technology Park, 1.3 GW, Lovejoy, GA, United States · developer: Stillwater Development, LLC · cancelled · ~$13B

Browse all 1,095 tracked projects

The list above is the 50 largest by tracked capacity. Every project is also listed under its build status and on its state market page, and the sortable table on this page carries all 1,095 rows with filters for developer, status, energy source and size.

Operational data centers, 384 tracked
Data centers under construction, 241 tracked
Announced data center projects, 278 tracked
Permitted data center projects, 152 tracked
Paused data center projects, 21 tracked
Cancelled data center projects, 19 tracked
All US state data center markets
All tracked operators

Data center markets by state

Texas data centers, 107 tracked projects, 41.4 GW pipeline
Utah data centers, 14 tracked projects, 14.3 GW pipeline
Virginia data centers, 94 tracked projects, 13.6 GW pipeline
Ohio data centers, 48 tracked projects, 13.2 GW pipeline
Georgia data centers, 47 tracked projects, 9.9 GW pipeline
Kentucky data centers, 8 tracked projects, 8.3 GW pipeline
Pennsylvania data centers, 26 tracked projects, 7.1 GW pipeline
Kansas data centers, 11 tracked projects, 6.7 GW pipeline
Illinois data centers, 15 tracked projects, 6.2 GW pipeline
Florida data centers, 6 tracked projects, 5.6 GW pipeline
Louisiana data centers, 8 tracked projects, 5.5 GW pipeline
Wyoming data centers, 8 tracked projects, 5.1 GW pipeline
Oklahoma data centers, 13 tracked projects, 4.5 GW pipeline
Missouri data centers, 10 tracked projects, 4 GW pipeline
Arizona data centers, 31 tracked projects, 3.9 GW pipeline
Alabama data centers, 10 tracked projects, 3.8 GW pipeline
Nevada data centers, 16 tracked projects, 3.4 GW pipeline
Maryland data centers, 6 tracked projects, 3.2 GW pipeline
West Virginia data centers, 9 tracked projects, 2.9 GW pipeline
Arkansas data centers, 8 tracked projects, 2.7 GW pipeline
North Carolina data centers, 16 tracked projects, 2.3 GW pipeline
North Dakota data centers, 14 tracked projects, 2.2 GW pipeline
Michigan data centers, 11 tracked projects, 2.2 GW pipeline
South Carolina data centers, 8 tracked projects, 1.5 GW pipeline
Indiana data centers, 22 tracked projects, 1.5 GW pipeline
Oregon data centers, 14 tracked projects, 1.4 GW pipeline
Iowa data centers, 22 tracked projects, 1.4 GW pipeline
New York data centers, 9 tracked projects, 1.4 GW pipeline
California data centers, 12 tracked projects, 1.3 GW pipeline
New Mexico data centers, 3 tracked projects, 1.3 GW pipeline
Colorado data centers, 5 tracked projects, 1.1 GW pipeline
Wisconsin data centers, 8 tracked projects, 1.1 GW pipeline
Montana data centers, 2 tracked projects, 1.1 GW pipeline
Idaho data centers, 5 tracked projects, 840 MW pipeline
New Jersey data centers, 3 tracked projects, 550 MW pipeline
Mississippi data centers, 10 tracked projects, 500 MW pipeline
South Dakota data centers, 2 tracked projects, 500 MW pipeline
Nebraska data centers, 7 tracked projects, 403 MW pipeline
Massachusetts data centers, 1 tracked project, 274 MW pipeline
Minnesota data centers, 6 tracked projects, 178 MW pipeline
Connecticut data centers, 1 tracked project, 100 MW pipeline
Tennessee data centers, 8 tracked projects, 10 MW pipeline
Maine data centers, 1 tracked project
Washington data centers, 5 tracked projects

All US markets

Frequently asked questions

How many AI data center projects are there?: Data Center Index counts 864 AI data center campuses worldwide as of 2026-10-28: 252 operating (20 of them still adding buildings), 219 under construction and 393 announced or permitted. Paused and cancelled projects stay listed with their source but are left out of every count.
How many data centers are under construction in the US?: 167 US campuses are under construction, and 16 operating US campuses are still adding buildings, out of 690 tracked across 44 states. The most active building states are Texas (43 campuses), Ohio (22 campuses) and Virginia (21 campuses).
How much data center capacity is being built?: Counted campuses add up to 270.1 GW of planned capacity and $2.2T of stated project cost. The cost total only includes campuses whose developer or a filing published a figure, so the real spend is higher. Capacity nobody publishes is modeled and marked estimated on each project.
Where are the most data center projects?: In the US, Texas (107 campuses), Virginia (94 campuses) and Ohio (48 campuses) lead. Outside the US the directory covers 48 more countries. The largest single campuses are ranked at https://datacenterindex.ai/rankings/largest-data-centers.