powertracker - US AI data centers on the grid, in context
powertracker
US AI & hyperscaler data centers overlaid on grid demand,<br>retail electricity rates, and per-capita GDP.<br>All overlays show year-over-year % change.
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What powertracker shows
powertracker.io is a live, public map of the United States that places every<br>known AI and hyperscaler data-center site on top of the electricity and<br>economic context around it. Every overlay is sourced from a public,<br>machine-readable feed and refreshed on a tracked cadence.
Key facts (May 2026)
powertracker.io tracks 144 AI and hyperscaler data-center sites across 36 US states : 108 operational, under-construction, or fully announced, plus 36 proposed sites pending local-government approval (zoning vote, special-use permit, county-commission decision, state-regulator sign-off).
The proposed bucket increasingly includes high-profile, celebrity-fronted campuses: Kevin O'Leary's Stratos (Utah), Rick Perry's Fermi America Project Matador (Texas Panhandle), Chamath Palihapitiya's Hassayampa Ranch (Arizona), David Rubenstein's Carlyle Fort Bliss campus (Texas), Larry Fink & Henry Kravis's CyrusOne Dugway (Utah), Hussain Sajwani's DAMAC Edgerton (Kansas), and Eric Schmidt's Bolt (West Texas).
Top states by tracked-site count: Texas (26), Virginia (12), Ohio (11), North Carolina (8), Oregon (8), Arizona (7).
Top operators by tracked-site count: Meta (20), Google (19), Microsoft (15), AWS (14), CoreWeave (7), Apple (5).
Across the 51 sites that publicly disclose target megawatts, announced + proposed load sums to roughly 91 GW — ~40 GW operational, under construction, or fully announced, ~51 GW still gated on local approval.
Sites are classified by AI focus: 61 primary, 81 mixed, 2 minimal.
Electricity demand is read at Balancing Authority resolution from the EIA Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (~66 BAs in the lower 48). Sub-utility load is not publicly available because it is restricted as Critical Energy Infrastructure Information (CEII).
Year-over-year layers compare the latest trailing-12-month window to the mean of the three prior trailing-12-month windows anchored at t-12, t-24, and t-36 months.
Layers on the map
Energy & economy — electricity balancing-authority<br>demand (EIA, 12-month vs 3-year baseline), county per-capita GDP (BEA),<br>utility residential rates (EIA Form 861), median property tax (Census ACS<br>5-year B25103), and Redfin home closing price.
Power infrastructure — EIA power plants at or above<br>100 MW (fuel-colored), OpenStreetMap high-voltage substations at or above<br>69 kV, EIA electric power transmission lines at or above 138 kV.
Politics — 2024 presidential county margin<br>(Trump vs Harris).
Social & policy — ICE raid reports (Reddit,<br>past 30 days) and protest reports (Reddit, past 30 days).
Public health — CDC opioid-overdose state Z-score<br>uptick and CDC homicide state Z-score uptick.
Climate — NOAA county temperature anomaly vs<br>3-year baseline, NOAA Storm Events outage uptick, and per-site<br>temperature on each data-center marker.
Where the data comes from
powertracker pulls from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA<br>Hourly Electric Grid Monitor, EIA-860, EIA-861, EIA power-infrastructure<br>ArcGIS services), the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA Regional Economic<br>Accounts), the U.S. Census American Community Survey, NOAA NCEI Climate at<br>a Glance, NOAA Storm Events Database, CDC WONDER and the CDC VSRR<br>provisional drug-overdose dataset, OpenStreetMap power layers via Overpass,<br>Redfin Data Center, and curated public coverage of hyperscaler campuses.<br>The full machine-readable registry of every feed, its refresh cadence, and<br>when it was last touched is at<br>powertracker.io/sources. A prerendered ranking of<br>the US counties absorbing the most announced AI data-center load —<br>joined to utility rate, home price and property tax change — is at<br>powertracker.io/rankings. A hand-curated<br>schedule of upcoming and recently-decided local-government votes, regulator<br>decisions, court rulings and permit hearings that gate the proposed<br>campuses is at powertracker.io/schedule (subscribe<br>via /schedule.ics).
How it is built
powertracker is a static MapLibre + PMTiles application hosted on a<br>Cloudflare Worker that adds HTTP Range support so PMTiles archives stream<br>correctly. The full pipeline — fetchers, vector-tile builds, and<br>weekly scheduled refresh workflows — is open source at<br>github.com/vxguo1/powertracker.
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What powertracker shows
A live, public map of the United States placing every known AI and<br>hyperscaler data-center site on top of the electricity and economic<br>context around it: balancing-authority demand, county GDP, utility<br>rates, property tax, real estate, transmission, substations, power<br>plants, climate anomalies, storm-driven outages, and...