AI data center sites

217 data center and power sites in 46 countries, with local water stress, grid carbon intensity and recorded community objections for each. 68 are in basins rated high or extremely high for water stress.

Sites by status

Status	Sites	Capacity
Operational	158	22.3 GW
Halted	2	40 MW
Under construction	28	17.4 GW
Announced	22	3.8 GW
Cancelled	7	n/a
Total	217	43.6 GW

Capacity is the full planned size of each site where reported or estimated; 144 of 217 sites have a figure, taken from company statements, permits or our estimates. Cancelled sites are listed but not counted in capacity. Coverage in China and Russia is less complete than elsewhere: operators there publish few site-level figures, so many sites have no capacity figure. Each site lists its sources and a confidence rating. See the methodology for how sites are selected.

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Largest sites

The ten largest sites by planned full capacity. Bar color shows status; most of this capacity is not yet built.

Meta Hyperion (Richland Parish, Louisiana)5.0 GW
Meta Platforms Inc. · Under construction · Richland Parish, Louisiana, US
AWS Project Rainier (New Carlisle, Indiana)2.2 GW
Amazon Web Services (Amazon.com Inc.) · Operational · Northern Indiana, US
OpenAI Stargate Project Jupiter (Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County, New Mexico)2.2 GW
OpenAI Inc. · Under construction · Doña Ana County, New Mexico, US
OpenAI Stargate Shackelford County / Frontier (Shackelford County, Texas)1.4 GW
OpenAI Inc. · Under construction · Texas, US
OpenAI / Oracle Stargate I (Abilene, Texas)1.2 GW
OpenAI Inc. · Operational · Texas, US
OpenAI Stargate Milam County (Cameron, Milam County, Texas)1.2 GW
OpenAI Inc. · Under construction · Texas, US
Google / Adani AI Data Center Campus, Visakhapatnam1.0 GW
Google (Alphabet Inc.) · Under construction · Andhra Pradesh, India
Meta El Paso AI Data Center (El Paso, Texas)1.0 GW
Meta Platforms Inc. · Under construction · Texas, US
Meta Lebanon AI Data Center Campus (Lebanon, Indiana)1.0 GW
Meta Platforms Inc. · Under construction · Central Indiana, US
Meta Prometheus AI Cluster (New Albany, Ohio)1.0 GW
Meta Platforms Inc. · Under construction · Central Ohio, US

Sites in water-stressed basins

68 of 217 sites, about 6.4 GW of capacity, are in basins that WRI Aqueduct rates high or extremely high for baseline water stress.

OpenAI / Oracle Stargate I (Abilene, Texas)
Texas, US · Operational
High
1,200 MW
Google / Adani AI Data Center Campus, Visakhapatnam
Andhra Pradesh, India · Under construction
High
1,000 MW
Meta / Sify Technologies AI Data Center, Visakhapatnam
Andhra Pradesh, India · Announced
High
500 MW
Meta Eagle Mountain AI Data Center Campus
Utah, US · Operational
High
400 MW
Microsoft Azure Phoenix Campus (Goodyear)
Maricopa County, Arizona, US · Operational
High
300 MW
Google Henderson Data Center Campus
Southern Nevada, US · Operational
Extremely high
250 MW
Microsoft / Nscale AI Data Center Campus (Sines, Portugal)
Sines, Alentejo Litoral, Portugal · Operational
High
200 MW
Microsoft AI Cloud Region Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, UAE · Operational
Extremely high
200 MW

Largest eight by capacity shown. Water stress is researcher-assigned per site from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; it describes the basin, not the facility's own draw.

Classification

Explicit AI Infrastructure: Purpose-built for AI training or inference workloads.
AI-Capable Hyperscale: General hyperscale data centers with significant AI workloads.
Associated Infrastructure: Substations, transmission, and power projects serving AI sites.

Environmental data

Water stress, grid carbon intensity and drought risk are assigned from published sources (WRI Aqueduct, EPA eGRID, IEA, China MEE, Ember). Each value shows its source and confidence tier.

What we do not claim

We do not attribute environmental harm to specific facilities. Community concern flags record events reported in public sources. They do not imply causation. See the methodology for full definitions.