What powertracker shows

powertracker.io is a live, public map of the United States that places every known AI and hyperscaler data-center site on top of the electricity and economic context around it. Every overlay is sourced from a public, machine-readable feed and refreshed on a tracked cadence.

Key facts (May 2026)

• powertracker.io tracks 144 AI and hyperscaler data-center sites across 36 US states: 108 operational, under-construction, or fully announced, plus 36 proposed sites pending local-government approval (zoning vote, special-use permit, county-commission decision, state-regulator sign-off).
• The proposed bucket increasingly includes high-profile, celebrity-fronted campuses: Kevin O'Leary's Stratos (Utah), Rick Perry's Fermi America Project Matador (Texas Panhandle), Chamath Palihapitiya's Hassayampa Ranch (Arizona), David Rubenstein's Carlyle Fort Bliss campus (Texas), Larry Fink & Henry Kravis's CyrusOne Dugway (Utah), Hussain Sajwani's DAMAC Edgerton (Kansas), and Eric Schmidt's Bolt (West Texas).
• Top states by tracked-site count: Texas (26), Virginia (12), Ohio (11), North Carolina (8), Oregon (8), Arizona (7).
• Top operators by tracked-site count: Meta (20), Google (19), Microsoft (15), AWS (14), CoreWeave (7), Apple (5).
• Across the 51 sites that publicly disclose target megawatts, announced + proposed load sums to roughly 91 GW — ~40 GW operational, under construction, or fully announced, ~51 GW still gated on local approval.
• Sites are classified by AI focus: 61 primary, 81 mixed, 2 minimal.
• Electricity demand is read at Balancing Authority resolution from the EIA Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (~66 BAs in the lower 48). Sub-utility load is not publicly available because it is restricted as Critical Energy Infrastructure Information (CEII).
• Year-over-year layers compare the latest trailing-12-month window to the mean of the three prior trailing-12-month windows anchored at t-12, t-24, and t-36 months.

Layers on the map

• Energy & economy — electricity balancing-authority demand (EIA, 12-month vs 3-year baseline), county per-capita GDP (BEA), utility residential rates (EIA Form 861), median property tax (Census ACS 5-year B25103), and Redfin home closing price.
• Power infrastructure — EIA power plants at or above 100 MW (fuel-colored), OpenStreetMap high-voltage substations at or above 69 kV, EIA electric power transmission lines at or above 138 kV.
• Politics — 2024 presidential county margin (Trump vs Harris).
• Social & policy — ICE raid reports (Reddit, past 30 days) and protest reports (Reddit, past 30 days).
• Public health — CDC opioid-overdose state Z-score uptick and CDC homicide state Z-score uptick.
• Climate — NOAA county temperature anomaly vs 3-year baseline, NOAA Storm Events outage uptick, and per-site temperature on each data-center marker.

Where the data comes from

powertracker pulls from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA Hourly Electric Grid Monitor, EIA-860, EIA-861, EIA power-infrastructure ArcGIS services), the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA Regional Economic Accounts), the U.S. Census American Community Survey, NOAA NCEI Climate at a Glance, NOAA Storm Events Database, CDC WONDER and the CDC VSRR provisional drug-overdose dataset, OpenStreetMap power layers via Overpass, Redfin Data Center, and curated public coverage of hyperscaler campuses. The full machine-readable registry of every feed, its refresh cadence, and when it was last touched is at powertracker.io/sources. A prerendered ranking of the US counties absorbing the most announced AI data-center load — joined to utility rate, home price and property tax change — is at powertracker.io/rankings. A hand-curated schedule of upcoming and recently-decided local-government votes, regulator decisions, court rulings and permit hearings that gate the proposed campuses is at powertracker.io/schedule (subscribe via /schedule.ics).

How it is built

powertracker is a static MapLibre + PMTiles application hosted on a Cloudflare Worker that adds HTTP Range support so PMTiles archives stream correctly. The full pipeline — fetchers, vector-tile builds, and weekly scheduled refresh workflows — is open source at github.com/vxguo1/powertracker.