Data centers, communities & the grid An independent public record
The data-center buildout, on the record.
One place to follow what the buildout is committing to and what is being decided about it: the White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge and its signatories, the community benefits companies publish for real sites, the moratoriums cities and states are enacting, and the utility tariffs and rate cases that settle who pays for the power. Every figure links to a source. Not affiliated with the White House or any signatory.
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Who signed
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What changed
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.
Commitments by company and theme
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Click a company row above to open its summary.
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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.
Find a site
Narrow by theme, operator, state, build status, or how the surrounding community has responded. The map and list below both follow the filters.
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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
Signed at the White House on March 4, 2026 by seven hyperscalers, extended to QTS via the DOE companion track that April, and expanded on July 23, 2026 to utilities, cooperatives, data-center developers, and 23 governors. This page tracks who signed and whether it is showing up site by site. Read the pledge →
The pledge
Five commitments, and how the tracked sites measure up.
Commitment titles and text quoted verbatim from the White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge. Counts are of assessed sites only — a site with no assessment is counted in none of them.
Coverage
Every stakeholder group in the power system — the companies buying the power, the utilities and cooperatives selling it, the developers building the sites, and the governors who regulate them.
By state
Filled chips have tracked records; hollow chips are states where a governor signed but we have nothing on file yet. Select a state to see its sites, tariffs, moratoriums, and utility signatories.
Signatory roster
The full published roster, as captured from the White House page.
Tracked sites
Sites announced on or after their operator signed, 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.
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.
Signatory sites announced before their operator signed, with no post-pledge site-specific commitment captured. Covered by the national pledge but not yet assessed per-site.
These companies have not signed the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. Shown for comparison, not part of the assessed cohort — some publish their own ratepayer-related language (see each card's sources), but none carry a curated pledge assessment.
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
Every tracked city, county, state, and federal restriction, with its status, duration, and the concerns cited. Click a row for the full record and its sources.
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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
Every tracked large-load tariff, rate class, and rule, with the jurisdiction it applies in and how many of the 17 LBL elements it addresses. Click a row for the full breakdown and its sources.
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Rate cases & proceedings
The regulatory proceedings where who-pays-for-data-center-load is actually decided: general rate cases, special contracts, and rulemakings, each with its docket and — for pending cases — the next known step. Federal (FERC) proceedings are badged FED.
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.
The record, rolled up
The same records, totaled four ways: by company, by pledge signatory category, by state, and by utility. Claimed figures are company-disclosed; independently verified delivery is sparse. Null values are omitted from totals.
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