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  • Running 668
  • Being built 67
  • Proposed 261
  • Stalled or cancelled 21
  • Not yet verified 58

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Latest in the Record

Recent local votes, moratoriums, utility filings, and federal actions across the United States.

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  1. US Federal Grid Capacity · 1.07 GW VPP

    Google Funds 1,070 MW Virtual Power Plant on PJM Grid to Pay Locals for Using Less Power

    Less than 24 hours after Trump's call for community payouts, Google and distributed energy aggregator Voltus announced a 1,070 MW expansion to their PJM Virtual Power...

    Log entry Utility Dive
  2. PA Zoning Denial · 7 to 0 Vote

    Archbald Borough Council Unanimously Denies Conditional Use Permit for 578-Acre Wildcat Ridge Data Center Campus in Pennsylvania

    Following nine public hearings between January and September 2026, the seven member Archbald Borough Council in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania voted unanimously to deny...

    Log entry WVIA News / The Allegheny Front
  3. US Federal Federal Policy · Dividends

    Trump Calls for Data Center "Community Dividends" and Behind-the-Meter Self-Generation

    Responding to bipartisan voter backlash over rising electricity bills ahead of the midterms, President Trump stated on Truth Social that large data centers are "mandated...

    Log entry Reuters
  4. OR Local Moratorium

    Oregon counties, cities say data center moratorium could cost them millions

    Gov. Kotek's data center permit moratorium through July has prompted Umatilla and other eastern Oregon communities to oppose it, citing millions in lost tax revenue and...

    Log entry OPB
  5. LA Power & Grid

    As Entergy pushes to fast-track 10 new gas plants for Meta, energy advocates head to court to protect Louisianans and their utility rates

    Energy advocates filed a court challenge to a Louisiana Public Service Commission decision that allowed Meta to conceal information about electricity demands and job...

    Log entry The Lens
  6. MN Litigation

    Settlement reached in lawsuit over Pine Island Data Center Project

    The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy dropped its lawsuit against the Google and Ryan Companies Pine Island Data Center Project, agreeing to a settlement...

    Log entry KIMT

Decisions coming up

Public meetings, hearings, and votes where data centers are on the agenda ahead of November 3.

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  1. Emporia voters decide a ballot question on banning data centers over 10 megawatts or 100,000 gallons per day, November 3. From the entry: Emporia voters will decide on November 3 a citizen initiated ballot question to prohibit high impact data centers defined as primary use for servers with peak electricity over 10 megawatts or water use over 100,000 gallons per day. emporiagazette.com local outlet
  2. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission holds a technical conference on utility costs driven by AI data centers, November 17. From the entry: Public Utility Commission to hold November 17 technical conference on utility costs driven by AI data centers. paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com local outlet

Where leaders stand on data centers and electric bills

Verbatim statements on the public record from federal officials, candidates, and local zoning proceedings.

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Mixed / Conditional US
If companies want to make their Data Centers popular, pay the community, and/or individuals within the community, a "dividend." I have watched the process closely, and Data Centers that were highly unpopular in a certain area, have become extremely popular when a financial deal is struck. MAKE DEALS, and get them built!!! GREAT FOR THE U.S.A.

Donald Trump

President of the United States, US federal government

Statement record · Reuters / Truth Social trade press
Opposes VT
If ratepayers read this bill and see that it is a name that says ratepayer protection and provides no relief in rates, they will rightly be angry. They can see something that is not on the level.

Peter Welch

U.S. Senator (D-VT), U.S. Senate

Statement record · CNN Wire news outlet

Nuclear reactor restarts and Virtual Power Plant capacity

Dedicated baseload generation and distributed peak curtailment contracts underwriting large scale data center interconnections.

Power & nuclear tracker → · National power and water numbers
Dedicated Baseload Generation

Civilian Nuclear Reactor Restarts

2.25 GW 2,250 MW · 3 reactors

Utility and hyperscaler power purchase agreements restoring retired nuclear units (Crane Clean Energy Center, Palisades, Duane Arnold) for 24/7 baseload power.

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Distributed Peak Demand Response

Contracted Virtual Power Plant Capacity

1.17 GW 1,170 MW accredited PJM capacity

Bring Your Own Capacity (BYOC) demand response contracts (Google + Voltus 1,170 MW PJM program through 2040) paying ratepayers to curtail peak grid load.

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Every state with a record 51 rows · sort by any column · blank cell: none on the record

StateRecordsRunningBeing builtProposedStalledMW disclosedRule rowsState rating
Pennsylvania 79 18 3 57 1 13,503.4 (15) 31 case by case
California 64 53 2 9 2,475 (61) 34 case by case
Texas 63 54 8 1 1,889 (3) 29 restrictive
Virginia 52 47 1 3 1 24 (1) 23 case by case
Illinois 45 35 1 7 2 3,095 (7) 29 case by case
Georgia 39 26 7 6 4,074.1 (9) 23 case by case
Arizona 35 29 3 2 1 196 (2) 12 case by case
New Jersey 34 28 2 3 1 827 (30) 23 case by case
Ohio 34 28 3 3 24 (1) 28 restrictive
Florida 32 28 3 1 271 (28) 29 case by case
New York 31 27 1 3 958 (30) 16 restrictive
Indiana 29 10 5 13 1 6,075 (22) 27
Colorado 28 23 1 4 464 (24) 16
Washington 28 27 1 809 (27) 7 case by case
North Carolina 26 20 1 4 1 2,500 (22) 33 case by case
Michigan 25 12 2 10 1 2,727 (16) 19 case by case
Minnesota 25 16 1 7 1 766 (19) 14 case by case
Missouri 25 16 3 6 694 (18) 16 case by case
Iowa 24 13 5 6 2,335 (18) 26
Oregon 24 22 1 1 661.6 (13) 13 restrictive
Utah 23 19 1 3 7,816 (3) 13 case by case
Wisconsin 21 14 1 5 1 2,267 (16) 17 case by case
Tennessee 20 16 2 1 1 834 (17) 15 case by case
South Carolina 19 10 3 6 3,317 (15) 13 case by case
Maryland 18 13 4 1 2,003 (18) 13 case by case
Nevada 14 12 1 1 2,345.4 (13) 5 case by case
Oklahoma 14 2 2 10 14
Nebraska 12 5 7 8 case by case
Alabama 11 1 2 8 13 case by case
Wyoming 10 2 8 4,300 (3) 6 case by case
Louisiana 8 1 7 8,180 (3) 9 case by case
Massachusetts 8 5 3 7 case by case
Alaska 7 3 4 4,352.2 (5) 3
Arkansas 7 1 1 5 1,000 (1) 7 case by case
Kentucky 7 1 6 50 (1) 14 case by case
Mississippi 7 1 2 4 6
Maine 6 2 3 1 97 (2) 16
New Hampshire 6 3 3 350 (1) 4
West Virginia 6 6 3 case by case
Connecticut 5 4 1 32 (1) 5
Kansas 5 1 4 16 open
Montana 5 3 2 29 (1) 10 case by case
South Dakota 5 2 3 8 case by case
Delaware 4 2 1 1 1,200 (1) 7 case by case
Hawaii 4 4 2
Idaho 4 1 2 1 14 (1) 5 open
New Mexico 4 2 2 2,450 (1) 11 case by case
North Dakota 4 1 2 1 1,110 (3) 6 open
Rhode Island 4 3 1 3
Vermont 4 3 1 1
District of Columbia 3 3 2 case by case

A blank cell means none on the record. MW disclosed sums the records that disclosed a capacity, with their count in brackets; nothing is estimated. The rating is the state's own row, set by a person.

The short answers

What people ask most, answered from what is on the record.

What is a data center?

A large building full of computers. Every web search, streaming video and AI chat runs on machines inside one. The newest sites, built for AI, can cover hundreds of acres.

Data centers explained

Will they raise my electric bill?

It depends on your state's rules for who pays for new power lines and plants. A federal bill on this, the Ratepayer Protection Act, fell short in the Senate on September 30, 2026: 57 votes, with 60 needed.

What your state has decided

Bill data from LegiScan, licensed CC BY 4.0. The record chooses the bills, writes each stage in its own words and cites the legislature's own page for every bill.

Researcher view · United States · 1,017 data center sites, 1,661 buildings where disclosed in 51 states · basis and source tier on every row · October 30, 2026

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