Virginia hosts 665 data centers, the most of any US state, followed by Texas with 413 and California with 321, according to a Visual Capitalist map built on Datacentermap.com data and published in December 2025.

Georgia ranks seventh nationally with 163 facilities, behind Illinois with 244, Ohio with 203 and Arizona with 164. North Carolina is twelfth with 110. Tennessee ties for twentieth with 60, Kentucky and Oklahoma tie at 37, South Carolina has 30, Alabama 26, Louisiana 23, Mississippi 10 and Arkansas 6.

The map shows a concentration in a few states. Virginia's total reflects the Northern Virginia hub, where the major cloud providers operate large deployments. Visual Capitalist attributes the state's position to dense fiber networks, available power and fast permitting. Texas draws hyperscale growth around Dallas, Austin and San Antonio, with land availability and electricity costs cited as factors. California's 321 facilities rest on long-standing technology clusters, although power constraints limit new large projects there.

Illinois, Ohio, Oregon and Washington form a second tier of regional hubs. Chicago serves as a central interconnection point for Illinois, and Ohio has emerged as a major cloud region on available land and stable power.

Within the priority Southeast, Georgia and North Carolina rank among the top dozen states by facility count, with Georgia the larger of the two by 53 facilities. The figures count facilities and do not measure their size or power capacity, so a state with fewer sites can still host large campuses.

Source: Visual Capitalist - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-u-s-states-with-the-most-data-centers-in-2025/