It is crazy how you see so many datacenters getting built in places of high land value such as say northern virginia. Why not just build them in west virginia and build twice as many for the same spend? They'd probably even let you burn coal to power them.
West Virginia also has a lot of coal. I wonder why the current Admin doesn't encourage DCs to be built next to coal. Coal communities don't care much for any regulations, DC development should be perfectly fine. Hyperscalers can brag about 100% coal powered AI.
You would think, but I live in a tiny pop state that is barely thought about, and we have coal, but the hyperscale datacenter project did get pushback. Almost entirely political. No one had an opinion in January. But around summer something flipped. I also work with an existing datacenter here, and there was a similar thing. People were going on about how cool it was, etc, for years, and then suddenly, wham, sentiment changed.
>Texas has 623 tracked data center facilities and projects: 349 operational, 101 under construction, 156 planned, 2 paused, and 15 inactive or historical. Reported or announced power totals 96.1 GW, including 85.4 GW tied to planned or under-construction projects.
This is for just one state.
>4,998 facilities and projects nationwide, with 374.7 GW in reported or announced power figures. Of that, 318.6 GW is tied to planned or under-construction projects. Climate-risk and water-stress labels summarize current records with those fields. The directory retains 150 inactive or historical records. States are ordered by current reported or announced power.
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To add, the numbers are actually this crazy.
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>Texas has 623 tracked data center facilities and projects: 349 operational, 101 under construction, 156 planned, 2 paused, and 15 inactive or historical. Reported or announced power totals 96.1 GW, including 85.4 GW tied to planned or under-construction projects.
This is for just one state.
>4,998 facilities and projects nationwide, with 374.7 GW in reported or announced power figures. Of that, 318.6 GW is tied to planned or under-construction projects. Climate-risk and water-stress labels summarize current records with those fields. The directory retains 150 inactive or historical records. States are ordered by current reported or announced power.