What's being offered to host communities
A matrix of the community-benefit commitments major data-center operators have published — across jobs, energy, water, tax revenue, grants, infrastructure, education, and engagement. Use it as a starting menu of what's possible to ask for in future projects. Click any company to see their framework and link out to the source.
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Community responses
What's actually being built — and how it's playing out
Real data center sites with the community benefits being offered, plus on-the-ground feedback from residents, local government, NGOs, regulators, and journalists. A field guide to what's working in practice — and where the gaps still are — so future projects can build on the playbook.
Recently contested
Sites with active legal action, eminent-domain disputes, or contested delivery as of the last six months. Click any card to open the full record.
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At a glance
Per-theme summary derived from this project's claims. See the Claims tab for verbatim quotes and sources.
- No site-specific claims captured yet.
On-the-ground feedback — what local government, residents, NGOs, regulators, and journalists have said about this project. The good news AND the lessons learned, with sources.
- No on-the-ground feedback captured for this site yet.
The Ratepayer Protection Pledge
On March 4, 2026, seven hyperscalers pledged at the White House to pay for their own power and grid upgrades — not ratepayers; QTS became the eighth signatory via the DOE companion track on April 24, 2026. Tracks who signed and whether it's showing up site by site. Read the pledge →
The 5 pledge elements
- Building, bringing, or buying new power supply — pay the full cost of new generation.
- Paying for new power delivery infrastructure upgrades — cover all network upgrade costs.
- Paying whether they use the power or not — negotiate separate rate structures; pay used or not.
- Investing in local job creation and workforce development — hire locally; build skills programs.
- Contributing to electric and community resilience — coordinate with grid operators; provide backup generation.
Verbatim from the White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge, March 4, 2026.
Who's signed
Assessed sites
Sites announced on or after the pledge date, or pre-pledge sites where post-pledge reporting confirms adherence. Each card shows the announcement date and first pledge reference. Expand to see per-principle breakdown.
Pledge-era sites awaiting assessment
Signatory sites announced during the pledge era with no per-site assessment captured yet. Absence of an assessment means the curation work is pending — not implied compliance.
Sites announced before the pledge
Signatory sites announced before March 4, 2026 with no post-pledge site-specific commitment captured. Covered by the national pledge but not yet assessed per-site.
Assessment is editorial, not a pass/fail score. Absence of a site-specific commitment is not a failing grade — it means the company hasn't published one for that site yet. Sources are linked on every card.
Data Center Policy Moratoriums
Tracking enacted, proposed, and failed city, county, state, and federal restrictions on data center development. Each record links to the primary government or authoritative source. Click any row to open the full detail.
Key themes driving moratoriums
Count of moratoriums that cite each concern. Click a theme to see which jurisdictions raised it and what their legislation says.
Claimed Chinese Influence on Data Center Opposition
Moratoriums Directory
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State Utility Tariff Designs for Large Loads
How states are re-pricing electricity for data centers. Each tariff is scored against the 17 large-load rate-design elements catalogued in the DOE / Berkeley Lab brief “Electricity Rate Designs for Large Loads” (Jan 2025) ↗, plus terms outside that study and the state legislation behind them. Every cell links to a government or authoritative source.
LBL rate-design elements — how often each appears
Count of tracked tariffs that include each design element from the LBL study. Click an element to see which tariffs address it. Elements with no coverage are shown muted — a gap in current practice, not an error.
Tariff Directory
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Coverage is curated, not exhaustive: it tracks states with a documented large-load tariff, rate class, or rule. Many states have no data-center-specific tariff yet — an absence that is itself a finding. “LBL elements” counts how many of the 17 study elements a tariff addresses; it is a coverage measure, not a quality score. One federal FERC co-location case (badged FED) is included for context because the LBL brief covers co-location; it is excluded from the state status counts and the states-covered tally.
Aggregate Totals
Claimed figures rolled up by company and by state. All numbers are company-disclosed — independently verified delivery is sparse. Null values are omitted from totals.
By company
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By state
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