Posts by Tamzid | Technical Writer

Michigan has one of the largest retail colocation bases in the Midwest and almost no operating hyperscale capacity. Switch’s Pyramid campus near Grand Rapids is the largest operating site, designed for 320 MW and 1.8 million sq ft at completion. The next four operating sites are enterprise facilities: Liquid Web’s Lansing DC3 (90,000 sq ft)…

Wisconsin’s largest operating data center is Microsoft’s Fairwater 1 campus in Mount Pleasant, with a 450 MW phase-one load. The Wells Building in Milwaukee follows with 12 MW of building design power. Aventus Lakes has about 0.5 MW available today on a planned path to 1.5 MW. Data Holdings Milwaukee and TierPoint Milwaukee complete the…

Tennessee’s data center market is built on AI clusters and cheap industrial power, and both are under strain. xAI’s Colossus 2 in Memphis runs an estimated 946 MW of IT load, xAI’s Colossus 1 adds 300 MW, and Meta’s Gallatin campus reaches 300 MW at full build. Bitdeer’s Knoxville site (86 MW) and Google’s Clarksville…

Nevada is Switch country. Switch’s LAS VEGAS 14 and 15 facility is designed for 495 MW at completion, and its LAS VEGAS Core Campus runs 315 MW across buildings 7 through 12. The rest of the five largest operating sites cluster east of Reno in Storey County. EdgeCore’s Reno campus carries 225 MW of critical…

Pennsylvania is two markets in one: a deep retail colocation base in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and a wave of gigawatt campuses rising beside power plants. AWS’s Susquehanna campus in Berwick leads the operating base at 960 MW of campus design, backed by up to 1,920 MW of contracted nuclear power. The rest of the five…

Nebraska built its data center market on cheap public power and generous tax credits, and in July 2026 the state shut off the credits. Meta’s Sarpy County campus leads the operating base at an estimated 320 MW, followed by MARA’s bitcoin mining site in Kearney (100 MW) and AAIM’s Nebraska 1 site in Aurora (15…

Mississippi is a hyperscale state with almost no retail colocation market. AWS’s Canton campus runs more than 350 MW of IT capacity today and is planned for 1,000 MW at full build, and xAI’s MACROHARDRR site in Southaven is a $20 billion-plus build that extends xAI’s Colossus compute across the Tennessee line. The rest of…

Indiana is a hyperscale state with a thin retail market. AWS’s Project Rainier campus in New Carlisle (2,200 MW at full build) and Google’s Fort Wayne campus (1,200 MW) dominate the operating base. The next largest operating sites are a fraction of their size: Digital Crossroad Hammond (20 MW), DataBank IND2 in Indianapolis (10 MW),…

Arizona is one of the largest and fastest-growing data center markets in the United States. Below-average business electricity rates and low seismic risk make the state an attractive location for businesses seeking colocation, cloud infrastructure, and capacity for demanding AI workloads. Phoenix, Chandler, Tempe, and Mesa anchor the state’s colocation market, while cities such as…

Data centers accounted for approximately 4.7% of U.S. electricity consumption in 2024, according to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s updated analysis.  That energy powers the equipment behind websites, business software, cloud services, and AI applications.  Understanding how a data center works starts with the relationship between its computing equipment and the facility systems that support it.…