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Data Center Capital Atlas Update: August 24, 2026

87 capital providers, 169 named sites, 294 financing transactions and 115 blocked or delayed projects, each linked to its source.

SAVRN·Aug 24, 2026 ·7 min read
Data Center Capital Atlas Update: August 24, 2026

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This is a scheduled update to the North American Data Center Capital Atlas, SAVRN’s primary-sourced record of who is funding data center capacity in North America, in what structure, at which site, and how much of that capital has been stopped. The atlas is refreshed every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, and each refresh publishes a note like this one recording exactly what changed.

Where the record stands

Measure Previous Current Change
Capital providers 87 87 no change
Named sites 169 169 no change
Financing transactions 294 294 no change
Blocked or delayed projects 96 115 up 19
Source citations 1,926 1,966 up 40
States with a blocked or delayed project 32 36 up 4

Announced capital across the tracked cohort is reported as disclosed and is never summed into a single deployment figure: site commitments overlap one another and overlap reported capital expenditure. Blocked-and-delayed totals from different trackers cover different windows and definitions and are shown side by side rather than added.

Capital at risk, added this period

  • Google Botetourt County campus, Botetourt County (VA). $1.0B. Western Virginia Water Authority stated it will not supply the 10-million-gallons/day Google sought; a FOIA lawsuit forced disclosure of secret water-use contracts (judge ordered release Nov 5, 2025), and the Water Authority is appealing to the Virginia Court of Appeals while a related water pipeline permit split the Planning Commission in August 2026. (Roanokerambler)

Capital at risk, added this period, newly verified from earlier periods

These entries were added in this cycle but their own dates fall before the current month. They are documentation catching up, not new activity.

  • Lighthouse campus (Port Washington), Port Washington, Ozaukee County (WI). $15.0B / 1000 MW. Nearly 1GW Stargate-partnership campus. Wisconsin PSC’s April 2026 order required hyperscale operators (incl. (Jsonline)
  • New Carlisle $13B campus, New Carlisle, St. Joseph County (IN). $13.0B. St. Joseph County Council voted 7-2 after a 10-hour, marathon meeting to deny rezoning ~1,000 acres of farmland off Chicago Trail. (WSBT)
  • QTS DeForest / Vienna campus, DeForest / Town of Vienna, Dane County (WI). $12.0B. QTS’s $12B proposal required annexing 1,600 acres from the Town of Vienna into DeForest. On Jan 27, 2026 village staff determined the project ‘not feasible in DeForest’ after ~7 months of undisclosed talks and recommended the village president reject the annexation petition; scheduled Feb 3 board vote and Feb 9 public hearing were rendered moot. (Dailyreporter)
  • Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing campus, Imperial County (near city of Imperial) (CA). $10.0B. Would be largest data center in California at ~1M sq ft; promoted as producing 2,500 construction jobs and $28.7M/yr tax revenue; county supervisors first approved parcel merger April 2026 then reversed with moratorium after public outcry; developer Rucci previously ran an Ohio strip club and rehab center. The developer has separately sued the City of Imperial in federal court over the project. (Apnews)
  • 301 Digital Crossroads (Hammond), Hammond (IN). $7.0B. City of Hammond announced the expiration of the $7B Development Agreement at 301 Digital Crossroads after required milestones were not met by the June 30, 2026 deadline; two prior extensions had already been granted. Parties: City of Hammond, Hammond Redevelopment Commission, Decennial Group, CoreWeave. (Inkfreenews)
  • STAMP campus (Stream), Town of Alabama, Genesee County (STAMP industrial park) (NY). $6.3B / 250 MW. 2.2M sq ft facility; $1.46B in requested state/local sales tax breaks ($716M state + $716M local); Hochul had previously called it a ‘local decision’ she wouldn’t override (March 2026) before reversing via executive order. (Orleanshub)
  • Farmington Technology Park (Tract), Farmington, Dakota County (MN). $5.0B / 708 MW. Denver-based Tract’s 340-acre, up-to-12-building, 2.5M-sq-ft campus (~$5B at full buildout) on former golf-course/school land. Residents sued on technical and later environmental grounds; MCEA joined as party. (Govtech)
  • Penzance Bedington campus, Bedington, Berkeley County (WV). $4.0B. Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced the $4B, 500+ acre Penzance data center near the Potomac River on Feb 26, 2026; more than 300 residents packed a March 20 county commission town hall raising transparency, water, drought, noise and light-pollution concerns amid new state law (HB 2014) stripping local zoning control. (Therealwv)
  • Sabey Decatur Township campus, Decatur Township, Indianapolis (Marion County) (IN). $4.0B. Metropolitan Development Commission approved the $4B Sabey project in March 2026; one of the three flashpoint projects behind Indianapolis’s moratorium debate. (WFYI)
  • Westfield data center, Westfield (MA). $4.0B. Case highlights retroactive political risk even for previously-approved projects as statewide sentiment on data centers shifts. (Bostonglobe)
  • NorthMark / Valara computing center, Spartanburg County (SC). $2.8B / 450 MW. $2.8B conversion of a former Kohler kitchen/bath plant (also a longtime bitcoin-mining site) into a computing center. State regulators initially approved ~50MW; company sought to expand to 450MW (five 17MW plus six 54MW natural gas turbines, atop 24 existing 2MW generators). (Scdailygazette)
  • Lex Pocatello data center, Pocatello (Bannock County) (ID). $2.6B. Proposed at a former polysilicon plant site; Idaho Conservation League highlighted unprecedented cumulative energy use concerns, comparing water use to an 18-hole golf course or large alfalfa field. (Yahoo)
  • Amazon Sunbury campus, Sunbury, Delaware County (OH). $2.0B. Sunbury has a data-center development moratorium in place until Jan 31 (2027); residents fear council could approve the $2B Amazon facility once it expires and are collecting signatures for a fall ballot charter amendment to cap data centers at 25MW peak load. (Dispatch)
  • Gotion Green Township plant, Green Township, near Big Rapids (MI). $715M. Gotion abandoned its planned Green Township facility after legal challenges, environmental issues, and backlash over the company’s China ties; Michigan had committed a $715M incentive package ($175M grants plus a 30-year tax exemption valued at $540M), which the state is now working to recover. (Mlive)
  • T5 @ Chicago IV (Grayslake), Grayslake, Lake County (IL). $750M / 1550 MW. Up to 472 acres within the $750M, 641-acre Cornerstone mixed-use development; ~1.55GW electrical demand from ComEd. Village Board approved between Sept 2024-May 2025. (Lakemchenryscanner)
  • Meta Rosemount (UMore Park), Rosemount, Dakota County (MN). $700M. Planning Commission approved the site plan, but the City Council paused final action until after Dec 20 pending completion of a required 5-year Alternative Urban Areawide Review (AUAR) update. Board of Regents approved a $39.7M land sale to Jimnist LLC; Xcel Energy filing put Meta’s minimum investment at $700M. (KSTP)
  • Tract Northern Nevada portfolio, Storey County / Washoe County (NV). $1.0B. Tract has purchased more than 12,000 acres across northern Nevada; company says it never sought subsidized costs and committed nearly $1B toward NV Energy infrastructure. Related to Tract’s earlier land dispute victory against Switch in Reno. (Thenevadaindependent)
  • Microsoft / Franklin Partners Covenant Park, Township adjacent to Lowell (Kent County) (MI). $1.0B. Estimated $500M-$1B investment over 3-5 years. Site needs rezoning from industrial PUD to light industrial. (CNBC)

Status changes

  • Three-campus program (New Albany, Heath, Hebron). restarted, now paused. Cancelled Apr 8 2025; restarted 2026 (~869 MW). Construction paused again June 2026 while Microsoft reassesses cloud and AI infrastructure needs.
  • U. Michigan / Los Alamos DC. moratorium, now moratorium. 60-day emergency moratorium; renewed 2026. Ypsilanti City Council passed a resolution opposing the $1.2 billion project, and the Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority passed a yearlong halt on water and sewer connections for data centers in April 2026.
  • Project Jupiter (10,000-acre Green Data Center). moratorium, now moratorium. One-year moratorium after 2+ months of opposition. A resident suit alleges $165 billion in industrial revenue bonds were issued for the Oracle/OpenAI development before the Planning and Zoning Commission voted; a judge has allowed an amended complaint to proceed.

How to read this

Every figure in the atlas links to the page that states it. Where a value could not be confirmed from a fetched source, the entry reads n.a. rather than an estimate, and roughly two-thirds of the capital-at-risk rows carry either a dollar figure or a megawatt figure but not both, because local rezoning dockets disclose acreage and square footage while investment figures come from economic-development announcements that a withdrawn project never makes. The dollar total of the rows that do disclose a figure is therefore a floor, not a census.

The atlas sits alongside two companion references: the Nationwide Data Center Delay Watchlist, which tracks project-level slippage, queues, and securities filings, and the U.S. Data Center Moratorium Tracker, which maps state and local policy measures. All citations behind this atlas are listed on one page.

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