How this data is built

In one paragraph

We collect public records: federal environmental permits, county and state planning layers, assessor parcels, grid interconnection queues and the annual federal utility filing. We add OpenStreetMap building footprints and several public directories, labelled as such. Records describing the same site are merged into one campus. Every field keeps a pointer to the document it came from, and the site shows that pointer rather than asking you to trust us. 4,091 campuses, 201 documents.

What we do not claim

• We do not state an effect on property values. The evidence cuts both ways. One study found homes near data centers appreciated 42% against 41% for comparable homes; other work finds a discount for industrial adjacency inside a quarter mile. We report both and conclude neither.
• We do not say a data center caused a rate increase. Utility rate cases and data centers both appear on this site because both are public. The causal picture is genuinely contested, and sequence is not causation.
• We do not call a status something it is not. Proposed means proposed. It is never written as "coming" or "planned for", and withdrawn and rejected projects are kept visible rather than quietly deleted.
• We do not give a distance we cannot support. 131 campuses are known only to the county. They appear on their county page and shade the county on the map, and they never produce a pin or a mileage.
• We are not the government or the operator. We are an independent aggregator of public records, and not a consultant, a valuer, a law firm or an environmental assessor.

Licences

Facts are not owned by anyone, but access to some of these compilations comes with terms, and we keep to them.

• DataCentersExposed: ODbL 1.0 share-alike (contains OpenStreetMap data) · 2,402 records
• Cleanview (cleanview.co): public pages; redistribution governed by their data licence · 1,619 records
• Google first-party data center locations page · 40 records
• Meta first-party data center locations page (city-level) · 24 records
• Microsoft first-party Azure regions feed (metro-level) · 10 records

The bulk download on the data page is the subset we may redistribute, offered under the Open Database License because some of its sources are share-alike.

Found a mistake

Email corrections@datacentersnearme.org with the page and what is wrong. We answer within 48 hours. We will get something wrong about a real property eventually, and how fast we fix it is the whole point.