Find a data-center parcel anywhere in the US by describing what you need.

We collected 236 actual data-center decisions made between 2007 and May 2026 — every one anchored to a public news article, county commission vote, or state Governor announcement. About two-thirds were approved; the rest were denied, withdrawn, voided, or blocked by a county moratorium.

For each decision we tagged twenty-two things about the project: was there an active moratorium on data centers in that county? Were organized residents already opposing the project? Did the applicant file under a shell company or codename? How close was the nearest school? Was this county already hosting hyperscaler data centers? And so on.

Then we ran a standard statistical model — a regularized logistic regression — to see which variables actually correlate with denial. The model is a starting point, not a final answer, because 225 decided outcomes is still modest. But the directional ranking is reliable, leave-one-out testing puts its accuracy at 0.96 AUC, and every outcome links back to its public source.