Data Center Capital Atlas Update: August 27, 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, 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.

• Larimer County data center moratorium, Larimer County (CO). no jurisdiction-wide dollar figure disclosed. Larimer County adopted a temporary moratorium on new land use applications for data center facilities in the unincorporated county on 27 January 2026. The county extended it on 9 February 2026, then extended it again on 13 July 2026 to 25 February 2027. The county is developing land use code definitions and standards covering water consumption, power usage, nuisances and suitable zoning before the moratorium expires. Vote counts not disclosed on the county page. (Larimer County Planning)

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.

• Paducah American Energy Hub (Paducah, KY). $100.0B, 1800 MW, announced. The US Department of Energy selected Brookfield to develop and operate a 1.8 GW AI data center campus on approximately 600 acres leased at the government-owned Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, a former uranium enrichment site in far western Kentucky. NextEra Energy will build and own 2 GW of natural gas-fired generation and up to 2.6 GW of battery storage. DOE stated a $100 billion total investment. The project is expected to create roughly 8,000 construction jobs and 600 permanent positions, with first components online as soon as 2028 and construction completion expected in 2031. (Louisville Public Media)
• Meta Sturgeon County data center (Sturgeon County, Alberta). 1000 MW, construction. Meta broke ground on its first Canadian data center in Sturgeon County, Alberta, northeast of Edmonton, announced 8 July 2026. The company stated an investment of more than CAD $13 billion in a 1 GW facility optimized for AI workloads, with approximately 3,000 construction workers at peak and more than 300 operational jobs. Cooling is a water-efficient closed-loop liquid-cooled system with dry cooling, which Meta says results in no operational cooling water use. Meta also committed approximately CAD $60 million to local infrastructure improvements. No map coordinates are recorded because the atlas map projection covers the continental United States only. (Meta Newsroom)

Financing transactions added this period

• NVIDIA and Cloverleaf Infrastructure. equity raise, Size and terms not disclosed by either company. The Wall Street Journal reported, via TechCrunch, that the investment would likely total several hundred million dollars; that is a reported estimate rather than a disclosure, so no dollar value is recorded. NVIDIA took a minority investment in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a Houston developer of powered data center sites founded in 2024 and backed by Sandbrook Capital and NGP Energy Capital. Cloverleaf will adopt the NVIDIA DSX platform to bring site, power, cooling, computing and facility decisions together earlier in project design, targeting shovel-ready sites under power, water and grid constraints. (Cloverleaf Infrastructure newsroom)

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.

• US Department of Energy, Brookfield, NextEra Energy, Big Rivers Electric Power Corporation, Jackson Purchase Energy Cooperative and Paducah Power System. platform, $100 billion total announced investment stated by the US Department of Energy. This is a multi-year programme total covering the data center campus, 2 GW of gas-fired generation and up to 2.6 GW of storage. It is not a single financing instrument and is not summed with other commitments. The US Department of Energy selected Brookfield to develop and operate a 1.8 GW AI data center campus on federally owned land at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in western Kentucky, with NextEra Energy building and owning the generation and storage. Brookfield leases approximately 600 acres on the site. Reported as the largest economic development project in Kentucky’s history. (Louisville Public Media)

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.