A public record of data centers and the approvals behind them
ComputeCompute tracks data centers in the United States
and the public record behind each one: the site an authority approved,
the power and water it draws, the generators installed for backup, and
the subsidies offered in return.
358Facilities
76With disclosed metrics
13Approvals on record
39With estimated emissions
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The observatory
Facilities on the public record, mapped by state.
California is live today; the rest of the country follows.
darker = more facilities on record · every shaded state links to
its own page · not yet launched
What did the public offer, and what was promised in return?
02
Power and water
What does each facility draw, and who agreed to supply it?
03
Siting
Which body approved each site, and under what conditions?
04
Operators
Who builds, owns, and uses each facility?
05
Disclosure
What was released, and what was withheld?
03
The oversight score
A per-jurisdiction score of which oversight
structures exist for data centers is in progress: whether a siting
authority, a water agreement, an air permit, and a disclosure
requirement are on record for each place data centers operate.
Each fact on this site is recorded against one of four status values:
on recordpendingnot disclosednot yet requested.
The score model itself is in progress. Each facility page reports
approval status directly today.
Every fact on this site traces to an
openly licensed dataset or a public record: Epoch AI (CC BY), Wikidata
(CC0), US EPA FRS/ECHO and eGRID (public domain), and California permit
records obtained under state public records law. Full sourcing,
licensing, and the estimate methodology for emissions figures:
read the methodology.