About US Energy Map

One map for the buildout that's redrawing the American grid.

The United States is in the middle of two simultaneous infrastructure booms. Data centers — driven by cloud computing and the AI race — are pushing electricity demand to levels utilities haven't planned for in decades. At the same time, grid-scale battery storage is being deployed at record pace to absorb renewables and firm up the grid.

These two stories are usually told separately, in scattered press releases, regulatory filings, and paywalled industry reports. US Energy Map puts them on a single canvas so you can see the whole picture: where capacity is going online, what's still in the pipeline, and how the two technologies cluster across regions and power markets.

Who it's for

• Industry insiders tracking competitive activity and regional concentration.
• Investors and analysts sizing the buildout and watching the pipeline.
• Reporters and researchers who need a fast, sourced visual answer to "where is this happening?"
• The curious public trying to understand what's being built near them.

Principles

• Free and unobstructed. The map is public and never gated behind a paywall.
• Sourced, not scraped-and-forgotten. Every project links to a primary public source.
• Honest about limits. We're explicit about what the data does and doesn't cover — see the methodology.
• Open. The full dataset and its change history live on GitHub.

How it's funded

The map, the state and operator pages, and the monthly change log are free and will stay that way — no paywall, no ads. The project is funded by the people who need the data as a working file: a one-time dataset snapshot, a monthly subscription that delivers the refreshed dataset plus a row-level log of what changed, and licensed feeds for teams that put the data inside their own reports and tools. Battery records derive from the public-domain federal EIA-860M inventory, so what customers pay for is the compilation, verification, refresh schedule, delivery and support — never the underlying public facts. Full terms are on the license page.

What's next

Shipped in 2026: operator portfolio pages, capacity-online-over-time charts, a public monthly change log, a per-address proximity lookup, and a research pass that took the hand-verified data center layer past 160 campuses. The roadmap from here: historical builds for time-series work, deeper coverage of announced AI campuses as they break ground, and — eventually — expansion beyond the U.S. to the rest of North America. The core promise stays the same: a fast, free, honest map of the buildout.

Have a correction, a project we're missing, or a question about the data? Email us or open an issue or pull request on GitHub.

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