Most New U.S. Data Centers Are Coming to Rural Areas

The United States has more than 3,000 operational data centers, and that number is expected to grow substantially in the years ahead. More than 1,500 new data centers are in various stages of development nationwide, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from Data Center Map.

These planned data centers are largely in different parts of the country from those that currently exist:

• 67 percent of planned data centers are in rural areas, while 87 percent of existing data centers are in urban ones.
• 39 percent of planned data centers are in counties that currently do not have any.

The Midwest and South Lead in Planned Data Centers

Most of the planned construction of U.S. data centers will happen in the South and Midwest. Three-quarters of all planned data centers will be built in these two regions, with the South alone accounting for nearly half of them (48 percent).

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