Data Center Research & Watch

ZIP 38109 covers Boxtown, Walker Homes, Westwood and the southwest Memphis riverport industrial corridor. It is the single most-documented data-center environmental-justice fight in the United States.

The resident report is real and verifiable. Cuthbert has an operating data center. It is a bitcoin mine, not a hyperscale AI campus — and the difference matters both ways.

35810 is the largest ZIP in this Alabama cluster by population (32,705) and the only one served by TVA rather than Alabama Power. The five resident reports run 2026-05-12 → 2026-07-22, overlapping the period when TVA publicly proposed a new

ZIP 14215 is Buffalo's East Side — the historically redlined, majority-Black core of the city. The data-center pin here is not a new proposal; it is an operating facility: the crypto-mining plant of DigiPower X Inc. (formerly Digihost Techn

ZIP 39046 (Canton) is the locus of the largest private capital investment in Mississippi history. Amazon Web Services operates a hyperscale data center campus on the Madison County Mega Site, off Highway 22 / Nissan Parkway just outside Can

ZIP 23231 covers eastern Henrico County — Varina, Sandston, and the White Oak

Newton County is one of the two or three hottest data center fights in Georgia, and it is being fought over an 850-acre drinking water reservoir.

ZIP 37208 is North Nashville along the Jefferson Street corridor — historically the center of Black Nashville, home to Fisk University, Meharry Medical College and Tennessee State University, and the neighborhood cut apart by the routing of

ZIP 45203 is a small (pop 2,530), majority-Black slice of Cincinnati covering the West End and the Queensgate industrial district just west of downtown. Unlike Cleveland (a rejected hyperscale permit) or Dayton (a citywide ban), 45203 alrea

Union City is the most built-out data center site in this cluster. This is not a proposal — it is under construction.

Montgomery's reports span the longest window of any site in this cluster — 2025-05-01 through 2026-06-14 — which tracks the construction period rather than a permitting fight. That is the distinguishing fact about 36105: the decision was al

Fifteen resident reports — the highest count in this Alabama cluster — running 2026-05-25 through 2026-07-22, which brackets exactly the window of the amended lawsuit, the June zoning-ordinance vote, and the July judicial recusal.

Conley is a small unincorporated community wedged between DeKalb and Clayton counties, at Atlanta's southeast corner roughly 8 miles from downtown. It has no city government — no mayor, no council, no city clerk.

Lancaster — a majority-Black suburb in southern Dallas County — has become one of the most concentrated data-center build sites in North Texas. It is not one project but a cluster along the I-35E logistics/inland-port corridor: STACK Infras

West Memphis 72301 sits directly across the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee — about 8 miles from the Boxtown/southwest-Memphis corridor where xAI's Colossus complex is fighting an air-pollution battle. The data-center wave has now

Hampton is the most advanced site in this cluster and the one with the most resident reports — 13 between May and July 2026. That volume is earned. Hampton has gone from "no data centers" to at least three known data center sites inside a c

ZIP 33167 covers Westview, Pinewood, West Little River and Gladeview — unincorporated, majority-Black north-central Miami-Dade. This is a textbook environmental-justice pattern: a 62.6% Black ZIP inside a county that is only ~15% Black, hos

ZIP 23805 covers southeastern Petersburg and the Prince George County side of the

This is the clearest "Black ZIP in a whiter county" pattern in the Tennessee set. ZIP 37207 (North Nashville / Bordeaux / Trinity Hills) is 57.2% Black. Davidson County overall is roughly 26% Black. The data center went to the Black ZIP.

ZIP 39174 is one of the smallest ZIP codes in Mississippi — roughly 525 people, essentially the campus and immediate surroundings of Tougaloo College, a historically Black college founded in 1869 on a former plantation and a central organiz

Port Arthur is a Gulf Coast refinery city whose Black-majority West Side already carries one of the heaviest pollution burdens in Texas — Motiva (the largest refinery in North America), Valero, and TotalEnergies refineries plus LNG and petr

ZIP 60617 is Chicago's industrial Southeast Side — South Chicago, South Deering, the East Side, and Hegewisch. It sits at the geographic center of a real, sited project, not a rumor: the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP) and

Google is building a data center in St. George — at the Winding Woods Commerce Park — as one of two Dorchester County campuses (the other at Pine Hill Business Campus, Ridgeville) that together represent a reported ~$3.3 billion buildout an

Vicksburg is the Warren County seat, a majority-Black river city on the bluffs above the Mississippi. On November 20, 2025, Gov. Tate Reeves announced that Amazon Web Services will build a $3 billion data center campus in Warren County — th

QTS Data Centers (owned by Blackstone) is building what it markets as one of the world's largest multi-tenant data center campuses on ~615 acres just west of downtown Fayetteville. Internally called "Project Excalibur." Planned: up to 16 bu

Unlike most sites in this cluster, ZIP 29306 has a data center that is actually being built. NorthMark Strategies, through its subsidiary Valara Holdings, is constructing a ~$2.8 billion ("nearly $3 billion") high-performance/AI computing c

Ellenwood, GA 30294 is the most active data center front in this cluster. Two separate projects are documented, in two different counties, both inside the 30294 mailing area.

Clarksdale is the seat of Coahoma County in the Mississippi Delta — the birthplace-of-the-blues town at the crossroads of Highways 61 and 49. It is majority-Black (ZIP 38614 is 76.9% Black), poor, and shrinking: the city's own FAQ puts the

Only one resident filed a report from 35020 — dated 2026-04-29, one week after the Bessemer City Council approved the rezoning. That single report sits on top of one of the largest data center proposals in the world.

Two data-center efforts sit on top of Rocky Mount, and ZIP 27801 — the majority-Black east/Edgecombe side of the city — is between them. (1) Kingsboro Business Park in Edgecombe County, where Rocky Mount–based Energy Storage Solutions wants

California-based developer Metrobloks won approval to build a data center in the historically Black Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood on the near-northeast side of Indianapolis, on a ~14-acre former drive-in-theater/vacant lot near 25th St

Southfield City Council approved the site plan 5–2 on December 16, 2025 for a ~100 MW, ~109,700 sq ft data center by Metrobloks, LLC (a Los Angeles developer founded 2024) on ~12.19 acres of vacant land on the east side of Inkster Road, bet

Columbus and Muscogee County share one consolidated government, so a single 10-member Council makes land-use law for the whole county — including ZIP 31907, the majority-Black east side.

ZIP 71119 covers west Shreveport — the Mooretown / Greenwood Road corridor along Interstate 20, running out toward the Shreveport Regional Airport. This is not a ZIP that merely neighbors the Caddo Parish data-center boom. The single confir

Maryland-based Natelli Investments LLC is assembling a 619-acre industrial corridor near Henderson off I-85 — combining ~113 acres of newly acquired land with the adjacent 506-acre Triangle North Vance business park. On April 20, 2026 the V

One resident report on the map. Behind it is one of the most instructive fights in Georgia — because in Lowndes County the land was already rezoned before the public knew what for, and the developer's name only came out because a county com

What's proposed: Edged (Edged Energy) "Project Gateway" — a ~6 MW data center at 214 Telegraph Road, Prichard, AL 36610, on roughly 9 acres at the site of the former 911 center. Stated investment ~$93 million; ~20 permanent jobs advertised

The City of Detroit issued a request for proposals (RFP) in fall 2025 for two adjacent city-owned parcels on the far east side — 11031 & 11081 Shoemaker St., roughly 14.4 acres — and at least one proposal that came back is for an AI data ce

Only 3 residents filed reports here. That is not a sign that little is happening. It is a sign that a county of roughly 9,300 people is facing one of the largest industrial proposals in its history with the least press coverage of any site

Residents on the Brockovich map named the developer "Blackstone/Copeland." Here is what that points to: the proposed data center would sit on the 217-acre former Emerson Electric world headquarters on West Florissant Avenue in north St. Lou

ZIP 39206 is north Jackson — 84.9% Black, about 21,878 people. No data center has been approved or built inside 39206 as of 2026-08-02. But north Jackson is the front line of Mississippi's data center fight, and two live proposals sit withi

ZIP 18349 is Pocono Manor, a tiny resort hamlet in Tobyhanna Township, Monroe County — home to the Kalahari Resorts & Conventions waterpark (250 Kalahari Blvd). The pin here is real and significant: Pocono Manor Investors — the landowner th

Local developer Lerner Enterprises wants to build "Brightseat Tech Park," a ~$5 billion hyperscale data center campus on the ~87-acre site of the demolished Landover Mall, just off the Capital Beltway in Prince George's County. As proposed:

Fayetteville is one of North Carolina's most active data-center flashpoints. At least three or four separate developers have circled Cumberland County since early 2026 — a 300 MW project floated for Dunn Road, a Terra Nexus Ventures campus

ZIP 63135 is Ferguson proper — the resident report (2026-04-30) landed the day before the postponed council vote. The data center in question is the same $1.8B proposal on the 217-acre former Emerson Electric campus documented in the compan

In early May 2026 a Westlake developer, Sam Khouri of Lakeland Equity Group, applied for a permit to build what would have been Cleveland's largest data center — a $1.6 billion, 150-megawatt campus of three buildings on ~35 acres at 3560 E.

ZIP 23803 covers western/northern Petersburg and the Dinwiddie County side of the

This is the sharpest example of the pattern in the entire Georgia cluster.

QTS Data Centers is planning a massive campus in Early County near Blakely, internally called "Project Blue Hole," first surfaced publicly by the Development Authority of Early County in November 2025. At full build-out (targeted end of 203

A ~$3 billion, ~280-acre AI data center has been floated for Yore Avenue in Benton Charter Township, near Lake Michigan College, in ZIP 49022. It was pitched to Benton Harbor Area Schools board members in a March 28, 2024 workshop by State

No data center has been formally proposed, filed, or approved inside ZIP 30058 that could be verified from public sources as of 2026-08-02.

One resident report, filed 2026-07-02. Three weeks later, both of Albany's governments hit the brakes.

ZIP 48341 is Pontiac, not Milford. The Brockovich map pin labeled "Milford" almost certainly reflects Oakland County's biggest active data-center fight — "Project Flex," a ~1.8 million sq ft data center on ~172 acres east of Milford Road in

Mullins shares its county — and the same proposed data center — with the city of Marion. "Project Liberty," a $2.4–$2.5 billion Stream Data Centers campus, was slated for ~400+ acres in the Marion County Industrial Park off the U.S. 501 Byp

Marion, SC sits inside the single loudest data-center story in the state: "Project Liberty," a $2.4–$2.5 billion campus that Stream Data Centers (Dallas) proposed on roughly 400+ acres in the Marion County Industrial Park, off the U.S. 501

No data center facility with an address inside ZIP 38106 was found as of 2026-08-02.

ZIP 53216 is one of Milwaukee's Blackest neighborhoods (80.6% Black) on the city's northwest side. No data center was found sited inside or immediately adjacent to 53216 as of 2026-08-02. The pin on the community map reflects a real statewi

South Holland is a majority-Black south-suburban village in Thornton Township, Cook County (~74.6% Black by ACS ZIP data; the Village itself reported ~80% Black in 2020). No data center was found sited, proposed, or in hearing in South Holl

ZIP 38118 covers Oakhaven, Parkway Village and the industrial belt southeast of Memphis International Airport — one of the densest freight/warehouse corridors in the country, adjacent to the FedEx superhub.

No data center, crypto mine, or hyperscale project is documented in Clay County, GA or the City of Fort Gaines as of 2026-08-02. No developer, no rezoning, no announced project, and no Clay County data center ordinance or moratorium.

ZIP 70122 is Gentilly — a large, 68.7% Black residential ZIP in the northeast of Orleans Parish, running from Gentilly Boulevard and Dillard University up toward the lakefront. Unlike the Shreveport/Caddo ZIPs in this project, Gentilly is n

ZIP 71101 is downtown Shreveport and the near-north riverfront — a small-population (6,174), 62.9% Black ZIP that functions as the command center of the entire $12 billion Caddo/Bossier data-center project. No campus is being built downtown

No data center is proposed or operating inside ZIP 27401 — the majority-Black east-central core of Greensboro — as of 2026-08-02. The relevant context is proximity: eastern Guilford County, just east of 27401, is an established data-center

Bishopville is the seat of Lee County, one of South Carolina's poorest and Blackest rural counties (~62% Black), on the I-20 corridor in the Pee Dee/Midlands. As of 2026-08-02 there is no public record of any data center — proposed, approve

ZIP 71129 is southwest Shreveport — the residential and light-industrial area south and west of the Greenwood Road / I-20 corridor, running toward the town of Greenwood and the Texas line. The single resident pin here is best understood as

ZIP 45402 is downtown and near-west Dayton — a majority-Black urban core inside a county that is roughly one-fifth Black. No specific data-center project has been publicly proposed or sited inside 45402 as of 2026-08-02. What is real is a c

ZIP 53223 straddles the Village of Brown Deer and the far northwest side of the City of Milwaukee — so contacts depend on which side of the line an address is on. It is majority-Black (56.6%). No data center was found sited in or adjacent t

Lexa is a tiny Arkansas Delta community in northern Phillips County — one of the poorest, Blackest counties in America. A pin in a place this small matters precisely because nobody else is documenting it. Here is the honest finding after a

No data center is proposed, approved, or built inside ZIP 39202 as of 2026-08-02. `Not found as of 2026-08-02.` The resident pin here is best understood as marking the place where the fight is being *decided* rather than sited: 39202 is Jac

No specific proposed or approved new hyperscale/AI data center was found sited inside ZIP 21202 (downtown / east Baltimore) as of 2026-08-02. What is real and load-bearing here is citywide policy: on June 16, 2026, Baltimore enacted a one-y

ZIP 71107 covers north Shreveport and the southern half of north Caddo Parish — the corridor running up US-71 and North Market Street from downtown toward Blanchard, Mooringsport, and the Arkansas/Texas line. It is the largest and northernm

Nash is a small (pop ~3,601), roughly half-Black city in eastern Bowie County, wedged against Texarkana. No data center has been sited inside Nash's 75569 ZIP as of 2026-08-02 — that silence is the finding for this pin. But Bowie County is

This is a Jackson, TENNESSEE report — not Jackson, Mississippi. The two are constantly confused. Jackson, MS (the state capital, ~200 miles south) has an active, contested 230-acre data center rezoning fight and passed Tennessee-and-Mississ