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Where data center builds face opposition, setbacks, or energy constraints — and where governments roll out the welcome mat.
Overall stance. Each jurisdiction's net stance across all bills we're tracking — darker red is more restrictive, green is more permissive.
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This bill governs how student data can be shared with the Summer EBT program, establishing rules around collection and use of student information for nutrition assistance eligibility. The legislation addresses data privacy and child safety by creating oversight requirements for student data sharing between educational institutions and government benefit programs.
Risk-based regulation prohibiting unacceptable AI uses, requiring conformity assessments for high-risk systems, and transparency obligations for general-purpose AI models.
Commission guidance explains how providers and deployers should disclose AI interactions, mark synthetic content in machine-readable form, and label deepfakes and certain public-interest or emotion-recognition uses before Article 50 obligations apply on 2 August 2026.
The governor's action plan sets guardrails intended to keep data-center infrastructure costs off residential ratepayers, protect grid reliability and water resources, expand clean energy, and secure jobs and community benefits. It calls on lawmakers to codify the protections; six major technology companies separately signed a voluntary pledge supporting the framework.
A single hyperscale campus (100 MW+) can use as much power as a small city, and the water-cooled ones can draw about as much water too. Per-query energy has fallen sharply over the last decade, and the operators buy more renewable power than any other industry. The totals still climb, mostly because everyone keeps asking the models to do more.
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New Carlisle, IN | 2,200 | Indiana | Under construction | |||
Project Rainier — Project Rainier is AWS's 1,200-acre New Carlisle campus purpose-built for Anthropic, hosting ~500,000 Trainium2 chips by October 2025 and targeting over one million by year-end. Seven of 30 buildings are live; full 2.2 GW buildout plus a $15B expansion makes Indiana the largest single-state AWS investment to date.
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Madison County, MS | 1,500 | Mississippi | Under construction | |||
Project Rainier Madison — AWS's two Madison County industrial parks demand energy equivalent to ~700,000 homes, and Entergy Mississippi is building new generation to serve them. Total AWS Mississippi buildout now sits at ~$25B across 1,700 acres — $10B initial, $11B expansion, and a separate $1B Hinds County site — anchoring the state's 'Digital Delta' push.
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5420 Tulane Rd, Memphis, TN 38109 | 946 | Tennessee | Operational | |||
55001 Larrison Blvd, New Carlisle, IN 46552 | 910 | Indiana | Operational | |||
1435 Hwy 54 W, Fayetteville, GA 30214 | 636 | Georgia | Operational | |||
New Albany, OH | 531 | Ohio | Under construction | |||
Meta Prometheus — Meta's AI supercluster in the New Albany Business Park, using a mix of weatherproof tents and traditional buildings to stand up capacity faster. Sits alongside Google's much older New Albany campus in the same park.
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5502 Spinks Rd, Abilene, TX 79601 | 421 | Texas | Operational | |||
4800 90th St, Mount Pleasant, WI 53403 | 369 | Wisconsin | Operational | |||
Somerset, NY | 360 | New York | Under construction | |||
Residents near the Somerset facility report sustained cooling-fan noise as TeraWulf converts a former coal plant into an AI/HPC campus. CB-4 and CB-5 energization is slated for H2 2026.
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3231 Riverport Rd, Memphis, TN 38109 | 340 | Tennessee | Operational | |||
1101 Beech Rd SW, New Albany, OH 43054 | 339 | Ohio | Operational | |||
5076 S High St, Columbus, OH 43207 | 303 | Ohio | Operational | |||
Cost and compute appear only when publicly disclosed. 84 of 310 sites (27%) have an announced investment figure — most colocation and proposed builds are never reported.
The legislators shaping AI and data-centre policy — and how their votes stack up against what they said they believed.
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