What this is

I built trackpolicy.org because I kept wanting a straightforward answer to one question: where does this state or country stand on AI and data centers? To actually answer it I had to check legislature portals, read scattered news, and dig through industry filings. Nobody was collecting it in one place, so I did.

Policy is also the part of this that gets the least attention. Most of the conversation around AI is about chips and models. But where compute gets built, how much it costs the grid, and what governments will allow AI to do in schools, courts, and hospitals is being decided right now in state capitols and agency filings. I wanted a map.

Every country, US state, and bloc on the site has a stance and a set of impact tags based on the bills currently moving through it. Click a region to see its legislation, who’s sponsoring what, recent news, and the data centers already on the ground.

I was inspired by datacenterbans.com, which tracks US-state data center moratoriums. Track Policy covers more jurisdictions and more kinds of policy: not only bans, but also incentives, disclosure rules, and study bills.

One of the things that pushed me to build this is how often the public debate around data centers and AI runs on intuition rather than detail. A lot of lawmakers writing these bills are doing their best, but tech moves faster than most committee staff can keep up with, and the headlines they read from aren’t always accurate about load growth, water use, or what these facilities actually do. That gap produces policy that sometimes misses the real issue in either direction, whether it’s a blanket moratorium on a site that wouldn’t have strained the grid, or an incentive package for a build that quietly locks ratepayers into decades of higher bills.

Track Policy isn’t trying to take a side on whether any particular bill is good. It’s trying to show you what’s actually being proposed, what stage it’s at, and what it would do if it passed, so the people affected can make up their own minds with the real information in front of them.