Roadmap

Data-center cases the atlas plans to cover

Twenty-four cases across eight US regions, ranked for future releases. Eight anchor versions four and five and carry full essays, maps, and bibliographies on the site today. The rest queue toward later releases. Each entry lists the operator, the dominant displacement mechanism, the active organizing groups, and the historical atlas case offering the sharpest precedent.

The research briefs behind this list are committed to the repository at docs/data-center-research. Every factual claim the atlas makes about a facility cites a URL, docket number, or filing in those briefs.

Mid-Atlantic

3 cases

Northern Virginia, suburban Maryland, Delaware. Dominion Energy rate pass-through and the densest hyperscale footprint on the planet.

  • Prince William, VA

    Version four, shipped

    Prince William Digital Gateway, Pageland Lane

    Operator
    QTS + Compass
    Mechanism
    Direct land assembly, Manassas Battlefield viewshed, transmission build-out, rezoning voided by VA Court of Appeals 2025
    Organizers
    Coalition to Protect Prince William County (Elena Schlossberg, 2014), American Battlefield Trust, Piedmont Environmental Council, Oak Valley HOA
    Atlas precedent
    Chavez Ravine

  • Culpeper and nine Piedmont counties, VA

    Version five, queued

    Culpeper Tech Zone plus Valley Link 765 kV corridor

    Operator
    CloudHQ, Databank, EdgeCore, Red Ace, Amazon
    Mechanism
    950-acre zone, Oak Green substation relocation, 115-mile transmission eminent domain
    Organizers
    Coalition to Save Culpeper, Piedmont Environmental Council
    Atlas precedent
    West Side San Antonio

  • Loudoun, VA

    Version five, queued

    Loudoun Dulles corridor saturation

    Operator
    200 operators, aggregate
    Mechanism
    899 million gallons water in 2023, $4M per acre offers to residential holdouts
    Organizers
    Piedmont Environmental Council, Loudoun Now
    Atlas precedent
    Fillmore and Western Addition

Southeast

2 cases

TVA and Southern Company territory. Hyperscale campuses settle next to Black neighborhoods utilities and refineries already sacrificed.

  • Shelby, TN

    Version four, shipped

    xAI Colossus and Colossus 2, Boxtown and Whitehaven

    Operator
    xAI
    Mechanism
    Unpermitted gas turbines, Memphis Sand Aquifer drawdown, MLGW rate pass-through
    Organizers
    Memphis Community Against Pollution (KeShaun Pearson, 2020), Young Gifted and Green (LaTricea Adams, 2016), Southern Environmental Law Center, NAACP Memphis
    Atlas precedent
    Overtown I-95

  • Newton, GA

    Version five, queued

    Meta Stanton Springs

    Operator
    Meta
    Mechanism
    500,000 gal/day aquifer draw plus disputed 338-acre expansion
    Organizers
    Newton County Board of Commissioners, Christi Studdard, Covington News
    Atlas precedent
    Cabrillo Village

Texas

3 cases

ERCOT runs outside the federal interconnection queue. SB 6 lets 75 MW loads plug in with minimal public review.

  • Taylor, TX

    Version five, shipped

    Stargate Abilene

    Operator
    Crusoe, Oracle, OpenAI
    Mechanism
    1,100 acres plus 360 MW on-site gas plant, 85 percent 10-year abatement, Hubbard Creek reservoir draw
    Organizers
    Sierra Club Lone Star, Public Citizen Texas, Taylor County Action Network
    Atlas precedent
    Cabrillo Village

  • Bexar, TX

    Version five, queued

    San Antonio Westover Hills cluster

    Operator
    Microsoft, Vantage
    Mechanism
    33 acres, 2,642 trees cleared under 8-3 Council variance
    Organizers
    Westside Preservation Alliance, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, COPS
    Atlas precedent
    West Side San Antonio and HemisFair '68 (already in atlas)

  • Pecos, Reeves, Ector, TX

    Version six, surveyed

    Crusoe and Pacifico Permian flare-gas siting

    Operator
    Crusoe, Pacifico
    Mechanism
    Railroad Commission flaring permits, no zoning review
    Organizers
    Commission Shift (Virginia Palacios, 2021), Earthworks Permian
    Atlas precedent
    Chavez Ravine

Great Plains

3 cases

Meta and Google clusters on Papio Creek, Jordan-Dakota, and Grand River. LB 1261 would carve a private gas plant out of the Nebraska public-power model.

  • Sarpy, NE

    Version four, shipped

    Meta and Google cluster, Papillion

    Operator
    Meta, Google, Tenaska, Tallgrass
    Mechanism
    LB 1261 privatized gas carve-out, OPPD rate pass-through, Platte aquifer
    Organizers
    Bold Nebraska (Jane Kleeb, 2010), Heartland Workers Center (2009), Senator Danielle Conrad, Flatwater Free Press
    Atlas precedent
    Chavez Ravine and Cooper Square

  • Mayes, OK

    Version five, queued

    Pryor MidAmerica Industrial Park

    Operator
    Google
    Mechanism
    Campus on Cherokee Reservation land confirmed by McGirt (2020)
    Organizers
    Cherokee Nation Environmental Protection Commission, Hoskin task force February 2026
    Atlas precedent
    San Juan Hill and East Harlem

  • Dallas and Polk, IA

    Version six, surveyed

    Waukee and West Des Moines cluster

    Operator
    Apple, Microsoft, Meta
    Mechanism
    2,042 acres of farmland plus 5 million gal/day Jordan-Dakota water contract
    Organizers
    Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, Iowa Environmental Council, Iowa OCA
    Atlas precedent
    Cabrillo Village

Midwest

3 cases

Licking, St. Joseph, and Racine counties sit on cheap farmland, a large regional aquifer, and a utility that has socialized grid-upgrade cost onto small ratepayers until state commissions ordered otherwise.

  • Licking (Johnstown and New Albany), OH

    Version four, shipped

    Meta, Intel, AWS, Google, QTS cluster

    Operator
    Meta, Intel, AWS, Google, QTS
    Mechanism
    30-year 100 percent abatement, Hoover Reservoir and Alum Creek draw, covert aquifer drilling near Granville Superfund plume
    Organizers
    Ohio Citizen Action (1975), Ohio Consumers' Counsel, Reporting Project at Denison, St. Albans Township trustees
    Atlas precedent
    Malone Lincoln

  • St. Joseph (New Carlisle), IN

    Version five, queued

    AWS Project Amber

    Operator
    AWS
    Mechanism
    35 million gal/day Kankakee aquifer dewatering, wetlands loss in a state that has lost 85 percent of its wetlands
    Organizers
    Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana, Hoosier Environmental Council
    Atlas precedent
    Cabrillo Village

  • Racine (ex-Foxconn site), WI

    Version six, surveyed

    Microsoft Mount Pleasant

    Operator
    Microsoft
    Mechanism
    2,800-acre 2018 blight declaration for private economic development, 30-year TIF
    Organizers
    A Better Mount Pleasant (Kelly Gallaher), Wisconsin Watch
    Atlas precedent
    Chavez Ravine

Southwest

3 cases

Water is the binding constraint. ADWR froze new residential subdivisions across the Phoenix AMA in June 2023 while hyperscale campuses kept getting approved.

  • Maricopa, AZ

    Version five, shipped

    Tract Buckeye, Microsoft Goodyear, Compass Goodyear

    Operator
    Tract, Microsoft, Compass
    Mechanism
    Hassayampa groundwater draw, 40,000 homes frozen, APS rate pass-through
    Organizers
    Poder in Action (2015), Chispa Arizona, Western Resource Advocates, RUCO
    Atlas precedent
    San Pedro and West Side San Antonio

  • Valencia, NM

    Version five, queued

    Meta Los Lunas

    Operator
    Meta
    Mechanism
    4.5 million gal/day municipal draw crossing Pueblo of Isleta senior rights and MRGCD irrigators
    Organizers
    Pueblo of Isleta Natural Resources Department, Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, Western Resource Advocates
    Atlas precedent
    Cabrillo Village

  • Storey, NV

    Version six, surveyed

    TRIC plus Truckee River effluent pipeline

    Operator
    Switch, Google, Tract
    Mechanism
    Truckee return-flow diversion, Pyramid Lake senior rights
    Organizers
    Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Water Rights Office, Great Basin Resource Watch, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
    Atlas precedent
    Chavez Ravine and Rondo

Mountain West

3 cases

Mormon agricultural land on the Wasatch Front, Simplot farmland on the Snake River Plain, High Plains ranchland around Cheyenne.

  • Utah (Eagle Mountain), UT

    Version five, shipped

    Meta, Google, QTS, Tract cluster in Cedar Valley

    Operator
    Meta, Google, QTS, Tract
    Mechanism
    Cedar Valley groundwater drawdown, reduced Great Salt Lake inflow, Rocky Mountain Power easements
    Organizers
    Utah Rivers Council (1994), Bridgerland Audubon, Alliance for a Better Utah, Utah Office of Consumer Services
    Atlas precedent
    Cabrillo Village

  • Ada (Kuna), ID

    Version five, queued

    Meta and Diode Gemstone Technology Park

    Operator
    Meta, Diode Ventures
    Mechanism
    1,100 acres of Yamamoto and Simplot-adjacent farmland, seven ag water rights, farmworker commute shed pressure
    Organizers
    Idaho Conservation League, Idaho Rural Council, Reps. Mickelsen and Gannon
    Atlas precedent
    West Side San Antonio and Cabrillo Village

  • Laramie (Cheyenne), WY

    Version six, surveyed

    Crusoe and Tallgrass Project Jade, Meta, Microsoft, Related Digital

    Operator
    Crusoe, Tallgrass, Meta, Microsoft, Related Digital
    Mechanism
    1,375-acre industrial park plus up to 10 GW of approved load, Ogallala drawdown
    Organizers
    Wyoming Outdoor Council, Powder River Basin Resource Council, Wyoming Office of Consumer Advocate
    Atlas precedent
    Chavez Ravine and Malone Lincoln

Pacific Northwest

3 cases

The oldest hyperscale cluster in the United States. Google sited its first server farm in The Dalles in 2006.

  • Crook, OR

    Version five, shipped

    Meta and Apple Prineville

    Operator
    Meta, Apple, Bitmain
    Mechanism
    Municipal water-sale below cost, Crooked River baseflow loss, 16M-dollar Crook County school tax base loss in 2024
    Organizers
    WaterWatch of Oregon (1985), Oregon Citizens' Utility Board, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Natural Resources
    Atlas precedent
    Chavez Ravine and San Pedro

  • Morrow, OR

    Version five, shipped

    Amazon Boardman

    Operator
    AWS
    Mechanism
    Aquifer nitrate contamination, 45,000 rural residents on private wells, 20.5-million-dollar class-action settlement March 2026
    Organizers
    Oregon Rural Action (2002), Columbia Riverkeeper, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
    Atlas precedent
    Cabrillo Village and the citrus-belt strikes

  • Wasco, OR

    Version six, surveyed

    Google The Dalles

    Operator
    Google
    Mechanism
    1.19 million gal/day in 2024, one-third of city supply
    Organizers
    The Oregonian (Mike Rogoway), WaterWatch of Oregon, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
    Atlas precedent
    San Pedro and Terminal Island

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