A Visual Capitalist map built on Aterio data shows how unevenly the U.S. data center buildout is distributed. As of March 2026, Texas has 140 data centers under construction and Virginia has 136. They are the only two states with more than 100 projects underway.

Georgia ranks third with 56 projects, followed by Ohio with 51. Arizona has 35, Nevada 29, Indiana 23, Mississippi 21, Illinois 19, Iowa 15 and Oregon 14. After Texas and Virginia the counts drop sharply, and most states show modest activity.

Several priority Southeast states appear in the data. North Carolina and South Carolina each have 12 projects under construction, Louisiana has 11, Alabama has 8, Tennessee has 3, and Arkansas and Kentucky have 2 each. Pennsylvania also has 11, Utah 10 and Oklahoma 9.

At the low end, 11 states and Washington, D.C. have none under construction: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire, West Virginia, Montana, Maine, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Hawaii and Vermont. Another 11 states have fewer than five projects each.

Visual Capitalist notes that Virginia's total is centered on Northern Virginia's Data Center Alley, where dense fiber connectivity and an established cloud presence have drawn operators including Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft. The article cites expected Big Tech spending of about $700 billion on AI data centers in 2026 and says rapid load growth is beginning to test grid capacity in fast-growing markets, with Texas singled out for demand levels that may be hard to meet. It also reports resident concerns about sound, light and environmental effects near some rural Georgia sites.

Source: Visual Capitalist - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-americas-data-center-construction-boom/