Data center land
Brownfield AI data centers
Every tracked AI data center campus built on a previously contaminated or degraded site, reusing land rather than converting new ground, with its grid and announced capacity. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
On this land type
Campuses
4
Announced (combined)
4.65 GW
Land type is one of the two things that decide a data center's local impact (the other is power). See the full picture on are AI data centers bad for the environment.
Brownfield campuses
| Homer City Energy Campus | Homer City | PJM | under construction | 4.50 |
| SoftBank/OpenAI Sakai AI Data Center | Sakai | other | under construction | 0.15 |
| Core Scientific / CoreWeave Denton HPC Campus | Denton | ERCOT | under construction | — |
| Amazon 'Bridgefield' GWU Ashburn Campus | Ashburn | PJM | announced | — |
See every campus on the national data center map, browse the full campus index, or read the methodology.