State by State
Data centers in your state
Where the campuses are, what neighbors are reporting, every lawsuit and moratorium we have documented, and the legal options residents hold, for all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
Largest markets
Georgia
Active casesA top-5 national market where the country's water fight is being fought
Ohio
Active casesTop-tier growth around Columbus and New Albany, and home to the nation's defining data center electricity rate fight
Texas
Active casesA massive, fast growing market, and home to the nuisance suits the whole industry is watching
Virginia
Active casesThe largest data center market in the world, and the epicenter of neighbor litigation
Major market
Arizona
Active casesA major desert market that wrote the nation's first data center noise ordinance
California
A huge, mature market centered on Silicon Valley, with the litigation wave yet to arrive
Illinois
A major Midwest market anchored by Chicago and the Elk Grove Village cluster
Iowa
A major hyperscale market with a decade of build-out and, so far, no documented litigation
Nebraska
A major hyperscale market around Omaha and Papillion, so far without documented disputes
Nevada
A major desert market split between the Reno industrial corridor and Las Vegas, with no documented disputes
Oregon
Active casesA major market along the Columbia, where a newspaper's records fight cracked open data center water secrecy
Tennessee
Active casesHome of the xAI Colossus air pollution fight, the highest profile data center health battle in the country
Washington
A veteran hyperscale market anchored by Quincy, with early permit fights but no current litigation
Wisconsin
Active casesFast growing market with three pending resident suits, including the first hyperscale noise class action
Fast growth
Alabama
Active casesA fast-growing Southern market where Bessemer homeowners already forced a rezoning into court
Colorado
A growing Front Range market, quiet in the courts so far
Florida
A growing three-metro market, quiet in the courts so far
Indiana
Fast growth anchored by Amazon's New Carlisle AI campus, with community wins so far coming outside the courtroom
Kansas
A growing market centered on the Kansas City metro, with no documented litigation so far
Louisiana
A growing market transformed overnight by Meta's $10 billion Richland Parish campus, with the cost fight at the LPSC
Maryland
A growing market whose defining fight is a 67 mile transmission line and the eminent domain behind it
Minnesota
A growing market where the fights so far are regulatory contests at the Public Utilities Commission
Mississippi
Active casesA fast-growing market anchored by AWS and xAI, and home to a landmark federal Clean Air Act suit
New Jersey
A growing north Jersey market where the fight so far is over electric rates, not in the courts
New York
A growing market where the legislature passed the nation's first statewide data center moratorium
North Carolina
An established hyperscale corridor in the foothills, and a mountain crypto noise fight won with ordinances, not lawsuits
Pennsylvania
Growing fast on the strength of nuclear co-location, with farmland transmission fights already underway
South Carolina
A growing market led by Google's Berkeley County campus, with a resolved groundwater fight and no current suits
Utah
A growing desert market led by Meta Eagle Mountain, with water as the issue to watch and no suits yet
Wyoming
A fast growing Cheyenne cluster, a water contamination scare handled by enforcement, and no suits yet
Emerging
Arkansas
A crypto mining cluster born of Act 851, where the noise wars went to court in both directions
Kentucky
An emerging market where the first organized opposition has appeared but no suit has been filed
Michigan
Active casesAn emerging market where the defining case so far was brought by the developer, not the neighbors
Missouri
Active casesAn emerging market where residents have already forced one project into court and killed another at the ballot box
New Mexico
An emerging market anchored by Meta in Los Lunas, with a statewide moratorium proposal now in committee
North Dakota
An emerging market where crypto and AI computing meet small-town North Dakota, led by Applied Digital in Ellendale
Oklahoma
An emerging market anchored by Google's Pryor campus, with AI projects arriving and a moratorium bill introduced
West Virginia
An emerging market recruiting data centers with a 2025 microgrid law, and no disputes on record yet
Small footprint
Alaska
A minimal footprint today, with cold-climate advantages the industry has noticed
Connecticut
A small market actively recruiting the industry with incentives since 2021
Delaware
A small market that has already fought one data center power plant proposal
Hawaii
A minimal island market where power costs keep the hyperscalers away
Idaho
A small market put on the map by Meta's Kuna campus
Maine
A minimal footprint with no documented disputes, and time to prepare before the industry arrives
Massachusetts
A small to moderate Boston-area market with no documented disputes, in a region where the policy debate has begun
Montana
A small footprint of mostly crypto operations, no documented disputes, and lessons to borrow from other rural states
New Hampshire
A minimal footprint so far, with a one-year statewide moratorium bill (HB 1265) on the table
Rhode Island
A minimal footprint and no documented disputes in the country's smallest state
South Dakota
A minimal footprint with no disputes on record, but a moratorium bill already on the table
Vermont
A minimal footprint, no documented disputes, and a strong land use tradition if that changes
Washington, D.C.
Minimal in-district footprint; the region's real story, and its lawsuits, sit across the river in Virginia
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