Every megawatt
has a fingerprint.

Worldwide facility registry 27,403 sites · open sources only · every row sourced

Worldwide facility layer assembled from open sources plus the full ATLAS directory (unrestricted use granted to Data Center Watch by the ATLAS IP team, 2026-07), OpenStreetMap (ODbL), PeeringDB interconnection campuses, FracTracker US operating/proposed inventory, and Epoch AI large AI campuses (CC BY 4.0). ATLAS coordinates are city-level centroids (labelled as such), not rooftop GPS. DataCenterMap and Baxtel remain catalogued only (commercial no-scrape). MW and H100-eq appear only when a source states them. Gaps stay empty. The globe plots every geocoded row; fiber arcs remain illustrative corridors.

Buildout dependency map the chain behind every new data center

Coverage model: what we already observe, what should be ingested next, and where a power story becomes a land, water, equipment, labor, capital, or community story. Green dots are tracked; violet dots are catalogued for ingestion.

News monitor daily crawl · headline links only · source first

The ticker is fed by an automated RSS crawl across grid, energy, data-center, HPC, and large-load sources. Headlines link to the original publisher; Data Center Watch does not copy article bodies.

Grid pulse hourly demand + daily peaks · EIA-930

Actual system demand — not interconnection requests. Crosshair cursors, ±1σ band, mean reference, scientific axes. Gaps stay empty — nothing is interpolated.

Interconnection queues latest verified totals · ERCOT history

Generation capacity actual in-service fleet · EIA-860/860M

Nameplate capacity by fuel — what is built, not what is requested. Complements the queue charts above.

Industry benchmarks every figure independently verified against its primary source

Infrastructure scoper CPU · GPU · HBM · DIMMs · power train · cooling loop

Translate a compute-power target into a first-pass equipment envelope using primary manufacturer specifications. Reported facts and derived arithmetic are labelled separately; unknowns stay unknown.

Component BOM library manufacturer facts, explicit arithmetic, honest unknowns

Infrastructure intelligence atlas primary · secondary · tertiary · buyer · producer

A denser layer than MW alone: power-train stages, cooling topology bands, rack-density eras, official buyer/producer indexes, and equipment lead-time stress tests. Screening orientation only — manufacturer BOMs and site engineering still win procurement.

Primary → tertiary power train

Cooling topology vs rack density

Buyer & producer indexes

Compute per megawatt worldwide · TOP500 flagship systems

Extreme-environment compute ledger orbit · ocean · floating · underground · atmosphere · polar

Documented data centers, computing payloads, and proposals in non-standard environments — including Antarctic research IT (McMurdo IT&C, IceCube, South Pole Telescope). Communications platforms and edge systems are labelled when they are not full data centers; no unpublished MW is inferred. Commercial hyperscale does not operate on the Antarctic continent under the Treaty System.

Worldwide connection & buildout sources 105 primary and authoritative feeds · buyer + producer + physical system

Project queues, product certification, server/UPS/storage/network BOMs, water and emissions, tenders, trade, construction, supplier revenue, climate, and physical risk. Each card states its signal, cadence, access path, and authority so a forecast is never mistaken for a transaction or a certified model.

Data center jobs direct employer · sponsored backfill

Get the signal

Pro database

Live activity console automation, subscribers & new postings · polled ~60s

A public, no-PII feed of what the automation behind Data Center Watch is doing right now — pipeline refresh runs, curator/audit agent outcomes, new job postings, and anonymized subscriber signups. This never shows an email address.

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