Data Center Capital Atlas Update: August 25, 2026

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

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

• Jefferson County data center moratorium, Louisville Metro / Jefferson County (KY). no project-level dollar figure disclosed. Metro Council voted 24-1 on 13 August 2026 to adopt a six-month moratorium barring city planners from approving new data center proposals, running until the council adopts comprehensive zoning rules. An amendment extended the pause to the rezoning of an existing building for data center use. A one-year version failed. Local proposals cited in the debate were a Dermody Properties data center in a 350,000 sq ft warehouse on Kramers Lane and a hyperscale facility already under construction on Camp Ground Road. (Louisville Public Media)
• Marion County data center moratorium (Proposal 238), Indianapolis / Marion County (IN). no jurisdiction-wide dollar figure disclosed. City-County Council voted 23-1 on 10 August 2026 to pause new data center approvals in Marion County until at least 31 December 2027. Three previously approved projects are exempt: DC Blox in Warren Township approved July 2026, Metrobloks in Martindale-Brightwood approved May 2026, and Sabey’s $4 billion Decatur Township campus approved March 2026. The measure advanced to the Metropolitan Development Commission for final approval on 19 August 2026. (WFYI)
• Greensboro data center moratorium, Greensboro (NC). no jurisdiction-wide dollar figure disclosed. City council enacted a six-month data center moratorium in August 2026 following a 17 August public hearing. The ordinance taken to hearing covered data centers with electrical demand above 10 MW. WFDD reported the moratorium adds uncertainty for the long-delayed ImpactData Dream Center at Gateway Research Park, whose site plan had already expired and which had received more than half a million dollars in city incentives. (WFDD)
• Alamance County data center moratorium, Alamance County (NC). no jurisdiction-wide dollar figure disclosed. County commissioners voted 5-0 on 17 August 2026 to adopt a one-year moratorium on consideration of data center proposals, extending the six-month version taken to public hearing. The county attorney described the pause as time to research local effects. The proposal covered developments requiring 10 MW or more. (Alamance County vote report)
• Independence County data center moratorium, Independence County (AR). no data center project known to be planned in the county. The quorum court approved a five-year moratorium on commercial data centers on 10 August 2026, running through 31 August 2031, the longest pause recorded in Arkansas. No data center project was known to be planned in the county. Reporting on the vote date varies: KAIT8 and the Data Center Moratoriums tracker record 10 August, UALR Public Radio recorded 11 August. (KAIT8)
• Madison County data center moratorium, Madison County (AR). no data center project known to be planned in the county. The quorum court approved a three-year moratorium on data centers on 17 August 2026, the second-longest pause in Arkansas after Independence County. No data center project was known to be planned in the county. (Data Center Moratoriums tracker)
• Bayonne citywide data center ban, City of Bayonne (NJ). no jurisdiction-wide dollar figure disclosed. The city council voted 5-0 to prohibit data centers citywide. A savings clause preserves three data center permissions granted before the ordinance. Hudson County View dated the vote 13 August 2026. (Hudson County View)
• Charlestown data center and battery storage ban, Town of Charlestown (RI). no data center proposed in the town. The town council voted unanimously on 11 August 2026 to prohibit data centers and battery energy storage systems, the second municipal data center ban in Rhode Island and the first ban on battery energy storage projects. No data center had been proposed in the town; officials described the ordinance as preventative. (Progressive Charlestown)
• Pahrump Valley data center ban (Nye County Bill No. 2026-11), Nye County (NV). no jurisdiction-wide dollar figure disclosed. County commissioners voted 5-0 on 18 August 2026 to adopt Bill No. 2026-11, amending Nye County Code Title 17 to prohibit data center development in the Pahrump Valley and Hydrographic Basin 162, an over-appropriated basin. A separate motion setting a 14 September 2026 public hearing on land use standards for data centers elsewhere in the county passed 4-1. A proposal to put the ban to a special election died without a motion. (Pahrump Valley Times)

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.

• Carroll County data center moratorium, Carroll County (AR). no jurisdiction-wide dollar figure disclosed. The county adopted a one-year data center moratorium in June 2026, one of a cluster of Arkansas counties outside Little Rock that paused approvals while Little Rock and Pulaski County adopted regulations instead. (UALR Public Radio)
• Russellville data center moratorium, City of Russellville (AR). no jurisdiction-wide dollar figure disclosed. The city adopted a six-month data center moratorium in July 2026. (UALR Public Radio)
• Westerly data center moratorium, Town of Westerly (RI). no jurisdiction-wide dollar figure disclosed. The town council adopted a one-year moratorium blocking all data centers on 27 July 2026 by voice vote, while the planning board drafts zoning rules. The town manager said data centers were not covered by the existing ordinance. (Progressive Charlestown)
• Revity Energy business park and data center, Hanton City, Town of Smithfield (RI). dollar value n.a.. Revity Energy proposed a business park including a data center at Hanton City in March 2026. After public opposition, Smithfield’s planning board and town council voted to ban such development in early May 2026, the first municipal data center ban in Rhode Island. Single-sourced from a secondary account in the Charlestown reporting; the Smithfield record has not been confirmed from a Smithfield source. (Progressive Charlestown)

Sites 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.

• Project Temple data center campus (Temple, TX). $3.0B, 300 MW, construction. Rowan broke ground on Project Temple in January 2026 on approximately 700 acres in Temple, Bell County, Texas, for a single unnamed global technology tenant, with operations expected in 2027, roughly 600 construction jobs and more than 40 permanent positions. The company closed nearly $3 billion of debt financing for the campus on 27 May 2026 under its Green Finance Framework. (Rowan Digital Infrastructure)

Financing transactions 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.

• Rowan Digital Infrastructure. debt facility, nearly $3 billion of debt financing, the largest in the company’s history; brings the Green Finance Framework total to $4.4 billion across three projects in the preceding year. Rowan Digital Infrastructure closed nearly $3 billion of debt financing to support construction of its 300 MW turnkey hyperscale campus in Temple, Texas, under a Green Finance Framework rated Strong by Morningstar Sustainalytics. Lenders and arrangers were not named in the release. (Rowan Digital Infrastructure)
• Realty Income, Cloud Capital and unnamed global institutional investor. jv equity, Realty Income expects to invest up to $1.4 billion for a 45% equity stake, approximately $700 million of it between Q2 and Q3 2026. The three-asset Northern Virginia seed portfolio is valued at over $6 billion, which is asset value and is not summed with the capital commitment. Realty Income formed a programmatic joint venture with Cloud Capital and an unnamed global institutional investor to invest in hyperscale data centers. Realty Income is acquiring a 45% equity stake in a three-asset Northern Virginia portfolio let to investment-grade hyperscale tenants on 15 to 20 year triple-net leases with annual rent escalators. Tenants were not disclosed. (Realty Income press release)

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.