# Data Center Capital Atlas Update: September 19, 2026

> 98 capital providers, 348 named sites, 441 financing transactions and 753 blocked or delayed projects, each linked to its source.

Source: https://savrn.com/blog/data-center-capital-atlas-update-2026-09-19
Author: SAVRN
Published: 2026-09-19

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This data center capital atlas update records what changed in the [North American Data Center Capital Atlas](/data-center-capital-atlas), SAVRN's primary-sourced record of who is funding data center capacity in North America, in what structure, at which site, and how much of that capital has been stopped. The atlas is refreshed every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, and each refresh publishes a note like this one recording exactly what changed.

## Where the record stands

| Measure | Previous | Current | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Capital providers | 98 | 98 | no change |
| Named sites | 346 | 348 | up 2 |
| Financing transactions | 437 | 441 | up 4 |
| Blocked or delayed projects | 740 | 753 | up 13 |
| Source citations | 4,049 | 4,124 | up 75 |
| States with a blocked or delayed project | 49 | 49 | no change |

Announced capital across the tracked cohort is reported as disclosed and is never summed into a single deployment figure: site commitments overlap one another and overlap reported capital expenditure. Blocked-and-delayed totals from different trackers cover different windows and definitions and are shown side by side rather than added.

## Capital at risk, added this period

- **Gary one-year data center moratorium (executive order)**, City of Gary (IN). Citywide; no project named. Mayor Eddie Melton signed an executive order on 16 September 2026 imposing a one-year moratorium on new data center development, covering data centers that directly or indirectly connect to or add demand on anything the City of Gary owns or provides. The city has no operating data centers. ([City of Gary](https://www.gary.gov/news-updates/mayor-melton-signs-data-center-moratorium-amid-rapid-ai-advancement-concerns))
- **Statesboro data center rezoning (6539 Burkhalter Road)**, Bulloch County Superior Court / City of Statesboro (GA). About 27 acres, 99 MW, about 230,000 sq ft. City Council approved a 3-2 rezoning from R-4 to O for 4 AM Development LLC on 18 August 2026. On 17 September 2026 Coastal Communities United and 11 citizens filed a petition for review and request for declaratory judgment in Bulloch County Superior Court, arguing among other things that the 99 MW project sits one megawatt under the city's hyperscale definition. ([Statesboro Herald](https://www.statesboroherald.com/local/eleven-citizens-and-nonprofit-group-file-legal-challenge-to-statesboro-data-center-rezoning/))
- **Project River ($11.3 billion campus)**, City of Cleveland (TN). 850 acres, 1,500 MW. On 18 September 2026 the developers asked the City of Cleveland to temporarily delay further action on Project River while they bring in third-party technical experts, after community backlash and while the city's PUD rules were pending. The family had accepted guardrails earlier that week. ([The Center Square via Newsline Local](https://www.newslinelocal.com/2026/09/18/family-slows-proposed-tennessee-data-center-project/))
- **Loop Road data center campus (Granville Township)**, Granville Township Zoning Hearing Board (PA). 1.54 million sq ft, six buildings, 245.5 acres. The township returned the application as incomplete in July 2026 because it lacked a traffic study certification, and the developer appealed. The Zoning Hearing Board set the appeal hearing for 1 October 2026. ([ABC27 via Yahoo News](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/date-set-data-center-appeal-201739171.html))
- **PAX-1 data center (Middlesex Township)**, Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas (PA). $15 billion, 700 acres. Residents led by Kyler Gerber appealed the township's approval. Judge Matthew Smith heard arguments on Friday 18 September 2026 and is reviewing a 21,000-page record, with no ruling timeline announced. The project is under construction. ([ABC27 via Yahoo News](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/cumberland-county-judge-reviewing-arguments-153453027.html))
- **Montgomery County data center Sunshine Law suit**, Cole County Circuit Court (MO). No project size reported. A Cole County judge on Monday 14 September 2026 dismissed the Missouri Department of Economic Development as a defendant in the Sunshine Law suit Preserve Montgomery County, LLC filed in February 2026; the case continues against Montgomery County. ([ABC17](https://abc17news.com/news/montgomery/2026/09/18/judge-dismisses-state-from-montgomery-county-data-center-lawsuit/))
- **Sauk County 18-month data center moratorium**, Sauk County Board (WI). Countywide; no projects planned. The County Board approved an 18-month moratorium on new data centers 27-1 on 15 September 2026. ([WMTV 15 via NewsBreak](https://www.newsbreak.com/news/4888619554270-sauk-county-approves-18-month-moratorium-on-new-data-centers))
- **Tigerton data center moratorium**, Village of Tigerton (WI). Villagewide. The Village Board passed a resolution on 15 September 2026 for a one-year moratorium on data centers, or until zoning policies are set, while a developer proposal is pending. ([NEW Media](https://www.newmedia-wi.com/tigerton-puts-moratorium-data-centers))
- **Elgin one-year data center pause**, City of Elgin (IL). Citywide. Elgin City Council voted 9-0 on 9 September 2026 for a one-year pause on data centers, per the Elgin Observer; the Daily Herald described the vote as preliminary with a final vote to follow. ([Elgin Observer](https://elginobserver.com/25095/news/elgin-city-council-approves-a-one-year-pause-on-data-centers/))
- **Calexico permanent data center ban**, City of Calexico (CA). Citywide. City Council adopted a permanent citywide data center ban on second reading 3-0 on Wednesday 16 September 2026, adding Article XII to Chapter 17.11; it takes effect 30 days after adoption. It is the third such ban in California after Monterey Park and Coachella. ([Calexico Chronicle](https://calexicochronicle.com/2026/09/18/calexico-enacts-permanent-data-center-ban/))
- **Los Angeles County ban on large-scale data centers (unincorporated areas)**, Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning (CA). Large-scale AI data centers; no threshold stated. Regional Planning Director Amy Bodek used her authority on 17 September 2026 to immediately prohibit large-scale data centers in unincorporated areas while a permanent zoning amendment, to be brought by Supervisor Hilda Solis, proceeds. ([Los Cerritos News](https://www.loscerritosnews.net/2026/09/18/los-angeles-county-moves-to-ban-large-ai-data-centers-in-unincorporated-areas/))
- **Orchard Hills data center rezoning (Trammell Crow)**, City of Cheyenne (WY). 162 acres. The Planning Commission recommended denial of the land-use map and rezoning amendments on 8 September 2026; the council held first reading and a public hearing without a vote on 14 September 2026, and the first annexation vote is set for 28 September 2026. ([Wyoming Tribune Eagle via Yahoo News](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/orchard-hills-data-center-enters-171600526.html))

## Capital at risk, added this period, newly verified from earlier periods

These entries were added in this cycle but their own dates fall before the current month. They are documentation catching up, not new activity.

- **Iron County 180-day data center and solar moratorium**, Iron County (UT). Data centers, data center power plants and solar plants. Iron County's 180-day moratorium covers data centers, data center power plants and solar plants and ends 22 November 2026 without extension; a replacement ordinance limiting water use, noise and light and raising permit fees goes to a Planning Commission hearing on 8 October 2026. The county's ordinance document is dated 8 June 2026, while servercountry.org dates adoption to 26 May 2026. ([Utah Public Radio](https://www.upr.org/utah-news/2026-09-18/daily-news-iron-county-data-center-navajo-nation-flooding-emergency-museum-dinosaur-art-contest))

## Sites added this period

- **Applied Digital Delta Forge 1** (Rapides Parish, LA). announced. A $7.5 billion AI data center lease with an undisclosed US hyperscaler signed April 23, 2026, on a 430MW site of more than 500 acres, with operations targeted for mid-2027.. Location corrected from North Dakota to Rapides Parish, Louisiana: on 16 September 2026 the Louisiana PSC unanimously agreed to hear Cleco's power-supply case for Applied Digital's $3.6 billion Delta Forge 1 in Rapides Parish without a final administrative law judge recommendation, for about 430 MW of load by 2028 starting with two facilities totaling 300 MW ([Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/applied-digital-signs-75-billion-ai-data-center-lease-with-us-hyperscaler-2026-04-23/))
- **Host Digital Project Facility (Northeast Oklahoma)** (OK). 43 MW, development. Host Digital's initial project is a 45+ MW data center campus in Northeast Oklahoma leased for 15 years to a large private cloud infrastructure company for 43 MW of critical IT load, with delivery expected in Q1 2027. The filings do not name the county or city, so the site is shown in the tables only ([Host Digital Form 8-K Exhibit 99.1 (SEC)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1948864/000149315226043135/ex99-1.htm))
- **Microsoft MNZ07 Wellington Data Center (13490 University Boulevard, Gainesville)** (Gainesville, VA). permitting. Microsoft filed an application with the US Army Corps of Engineers for its MNZ07 Wellington campus, two one-story data center buildings and an on-site substation on 123 acres at 13490 University Boulevard, affecting 955 linear feet of stream channels and 1.95 acres of wetlands. Microsoft bought the land in 2024 for $465.5 million ([Patch](https://patch.com/virginia/manassas/tech-giant-files-application-new-data-center-prince-william-county-report))

## Financing transactions added this period

- **Oracle, Clearway Energy, ENGIE, RWE and Scout Clean Energy**. ppa, Contract values not disclosed; more than 1.7 GW across ten Texas wind projects. Oracle signed wind energy supply agreements covering more than 1.7 GW across ten Texas wind projects with Clearway Energy, ENGIE, RWE and Scout Clean Energy, supporting its Abilene campus on the ERCOT grid. RWE's share is a 433 MW virtual power purchase agreement from its existing Panther Creek I, II and III wind farms in Sterling, Howard and Glasscock counties. Per-supplier volumes for the other three counterparties were not disclosed ([Renewable Energy Magazine](https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/wind/oracle-invests-in-over-1-7-gw-20260917))
- **Oracle (tenant), Santander and Jefferies**. debt facility, About $18 billion of loans tied to the Oracle-leased Project Jupiter campus, per the FT as carried by Reuters; lender list and exact closing date not confirmed. The Financial Times reported, as carried by Reuters on 18 September 2026, that about $18 billion of loans secured late in 2025 for the Oracle-leased Project Jupiter campus on about 1,400 acres in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, were being quoted at 89 to 91 cents on the dollar by syndicate banks including Santander and Jefferies, and that efforts to sell the debt to a wider pool of investors had stalled. The reports cited S&P's July 2026 downgrade of Oracle to one notch above junk. Oracle, Santander and Jefferies did not comment ([Reuters via 93.3 The Drive](https://www.933thedrive.com/2026/09/18/oracles-18-billion-data-center-debt-under-pressure-ft-reports/))
- **Host Digital Inc. (formerly Healthy Choice Wellness Corp.), Host Digital Infrastructure LLC and unnamed privately held cloud infrastructure company (tenant)**. lease, Approximately $1.25 billion aggregate base-term contracted rent over 15 years, inclusive of 3% annual escalators. Host Digital Infrastructure LLC signed a 15-year take-or-pay lease on 7 August 2026 with one of the world's largest privately held cloud infrastructure companies for 43 MW of critical IT load at a planned 45+ MW campus in Northeast Oklahoma, expected to be backstopped by an investment-grade technology company, with renewals to a 30-year total term and delivery expected in the first quarter of 2027. On 17 September 2026 Healthy Choice Wellness Corp. completed its merger with Host Digital Infrastructure LLC, renamed itself Host Digital Inc. and began trading as HOST on NYSE American on 18 September 2026. A preliminary prospectus supplement filed 17 September 2026 proposed a $17.5 million Class A share offering, not yet priced, and described a possible second Northeast Oklahoma site under a 12-year lease for about 16 MW (about $391 million base-term rent) that is not under contract. Project financing had not closed ([Host Digital Form 8-K (SEC)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1948864/000149315226043135/form8-k.htm))
- **NVIDIA, Brookfield Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Fund and Kuwait Investment Authority**. fund commitment, $2 billion commitment to a fund targeting $10 billion; global mandate, not North America-specific. Bloomberg reported on 17 September 2026 that investor documents show NVIDIA committed $2 billion to the Brookfield Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Fund, revealing the size of a previously disclosed investment. The fund targets $10 billion, has NVIDIA and the Kuwait Investment Authority as anchor investors, and invests globally in AI factories, dedicated behind-the-meter power and compute infrastructure. The commitment is a fund pledge, not deployed North American capital ([Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/nvidia-committed-2-billion-brookfield-171728893.html))

## Status changes

- **Westfield data center**. delayed, now delayed. Case highlights retroactive political risk even for previously-approved projects as statewide sentiment on data centers shifts. The Planning Board voted unanimously to postpone deciding on Servistar Realties LLC's request for a three-year extension of its November 2021 special permit and to ask the Law Department whether the permit remains valid, because it was never registered at the Registry of Deeds and the required site plan and environmental review were never submitted. Servistar said no construction has started and no land has been bought. No new meeting date was set.
- **NorthMark / Valara computing center**. other, now litigation. $2.8B conversion of a former Kohler kitchen/bath plant (also a longtime bitcoin-mining site) into a computing center. State regulators initially approved ~50MW; company sought to expand to 450MW (five 17MW plus six 54MW natural gas turbines, atop 24 existing 2MW generators). On 27 August 2026 the South Carolina Public Service Commission ruled unanimously, with Commissioner David Britt recused, that the Utility Facility Siting and Environmental Protection Act does not apply to NorthMark's 457 MW on-site power station on Pine Street in Spartanburg because it generates power for internal use rather than export to the grid, and that only the Office of Regulatory Staff can enforce the Act. The Southern Environmental Law Center opposed the ruling and may seek reconsideration or appeal. Concerned Citizens of Spartanburg County filed a further suit in the Seventh Judicial Circuit Court asking the court to require the county to apply its land development ordinance and to make Valara obtain a major land development permit before the full planning commission; a hearing was held Thursday 17 September 2026.
- **Project Jupiter permitting stay (Oracle campus)**. court halt, now delayed. The New Mexico Supreme Court unanimously granted two stays reported 24 August 2026. It halted the New Mexico Environment Department air quality permit hearing set to open 14 September 2026 in Sunland Park on the campus's on-site methane fuel-cell microgrid, and it ordered the Office of the State Engineer to pause emergency authorization of water from a newly constructed well used for construction. New Energy Economy petitioned on the air permit, arguing the department cannot hold a hearing before the project's fuel source is established; the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned on the water authorization. The designated hearing officer withdrew from the case, and a replacement will be appointed after the stay is lifted. Site work continued after the New Mexico Supreme Court order pausing the air quality permit process and the State Engineer water permit, with 2,105 construction workers on site as of 30 June 2026 per Oracle records reported by Searchlight New Mexico. On 8 September 2026 Oracle issued an RFP for 2 GW of new New Mexico renewable generation deliverable between 2027 and 2031, tied to 100% carbon-free matching for Project Jupiter by 2031, and offered up to $1 million for carbon capture research on the Bloom fuel cells On Thursday 17 September 2026 the New Mexico Supreme Court unanimously denied, without comment, New Energy Economy's air-permit petition and the Center for Biological Diversity's air-permit and emergency-well petitions and lifted both stays, so the air permit and State Engineer proceedings can resume; no replacement hearing officer or hearing date had been named. Separately, the FT reported via Reuters on 18 September 2026 that about $18 billion of loans tied to the campus were quoted at 89 to 91 cents on the dollar.
- **Loudoun County 12-month pause on legislative data center applications**. other, now other. The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted 7-1-1 on 15 September 2026 directing staff to draft a resolution pausing data center applications for 12 months while new regulations are written. Supervisor Kristen Umstattd voted against and Supervisor Caleb Kershner abstained. As described, each application would be paused for one year from its submission date. Board Chair Phyllis Randall said the measure is not a ban or a moratorium. A separate vote is still required to adopt the resolution. Loudoun Now reported that staff will bring the resolution back in October 2026 for a final board decision, that County Attorney Leo Rogers advised a moratorium is not legal in Virginia so the measure relies on the 12-month review deadlines for legislative applications, that by-right applications (an estimated 18.2 million sq ft of data center space) are not affected, and that new data center regulations are expected to be completed in July 2027
- **King of Prussia data center campus**. denied, now litigation. Developer Brian O'Neill sued Upper Merion Township, its supervisors and planning commission seeking review extensions, and a Montgomery County judge enjoined township action on his applications on 12 August 2026. The judge vacated the injunction the next day. On 13 August 2026 the Board of Supervisors denied two extension requests and several preliminary land development plans, citing missing architectural, traffic and engineering information. O'Neill said he will appeal. On Wednesday 16 September 2026 O'Neill filed suits in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas challenging the board's rejection of the roughly 4.6 million sq ft campus, arguing township officials had said data centers qualify as warehouses permitted under the zoning code.
- **Triangle Innovation Park West (TIP West)**. litigation, now restarted. Chatham County adopted a 12-month countywide moratorium on new data centers on 11 February 2026. ECO TIP West, which says it received a zoning permit in October 2025 confirming a data center as a use by right and had spent $11 million on the project, sued the county in Chatham County Superior Court seeking to invalidate the moratorium, confirm vested rights and recover damages and fees. On Thursday 17 September 2026 Superior Court Judge John Morris granted summary judgment to ECO TIP West, finding no genuine issue of material fact, which allows the 750 MW, five-building campus on the Moncure megasite to proceed despite the moratorium unless the county appeals. Damages and legal fees are to be set at a later hearing
- **Nebius Oxmoor Valley data center**. litigation, now litigation. Neighbors sued Nebius, Hoar Construction and the City of Birmingham, alleging the city issued permits for a hyperscale data center on land not zoned for that use. On 10 July 2026 Circuit Judge Javan Patton Crayton ruled the case can proceed without first going to the Zoning Board of Adjustment. On 14 August 2026 the judge granted the plaintiffs' request to skip the preliminary injunction and go to the merits, with the next hearing set for 8 March 2027. Construction continues, with completion projected for 2028. Additional suits filed: the Greater Birmingham Humane Society sued the City of Birmingham, Alabama ADC Holdings LLC and 201 Milan Birmingham LLC in Jefferson County Circuit Court on 10 July 2026, seeking review of permits and approvals for the project next to its planned animal campus. On 5 September 2026 Regions Bank shareholder James Anderson filed a derivative suit alleging Nebius affiliates defrauded the bank of $66.3 million in the 30 September 2025 sale of 201 Milan Parkway. Former school board member Terri Michal sued (filed on a Thursday afternoon, reported 11 September 2026) Birmingham's Industrial Development Board, its chairman and Nebius, asking a judge to cancel the $3.2 billion in 30-year tax abatements approved 29 May 2026 under the Open Meetings Act; AL.com described the project as $36 billion and 300 MW on about 75 acres. On Thursday 17 September 2026 Judge Javan Patton Crayton consolidated three existing suits, including the residents' suit and the Humane Society's; the 8 March 2027 hearing stands.
- **Blueprint Data Centers Taylor facility**. litigation, now litigation. Five Taylor residents sued to stop a 135,000 sq ft Blueprint data center, arguing a 1999 deed restriction required the land to be held as parkland. The judge had paused work during the case, but on 8 October 2025 District Judge Ryan Larson dismissed the suit for lack of standing. The residents' group said it was filing an appeal. On 17 September 2026 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an investigation into whether the 1999 deed restriction holding the land in trust for future use as parkland was modified, released or terminated before the Taylor Economic Development Corporation sold the site to NCP Travis TPP Project, LLC for $10 million in April 2025, and said he may seek court intervention. The city said it would cooperate fully.
- **AWS 18-building campus, Trenton annexation of 601 acres from Madison and St. Clair townships**. withdrawn, now withdrawn. Trenton, Duke Energy Ohio and Kentucky, Watson Gravel Inc. and two landowners filed an expedited annexation petition on 27 July 2026 to bring 601 acres into the city for a proposed 18-building AWS data center. Madison Township trustees voted unanimously on 24 August 2026 to reject the petition and St. Clair Township rejected it the next day, despite Amazon offering each township $5 million. On 14 September 2026 the petitioners withdrew the petition hours before a Butler County commissioners hearing, reserving the right to refile after Trenton voters decide a 3 November 2026 charter amendment banning data centers above 25 MW. Butler County's six-month data center moratorium for Madison and five other townships runs to December 2026. The annexation petitioners asked for postponement until after 10 November 2026.
- **Project Taurus (Raeden data center at former Intel plant, Garden of the Gods Road)**. under appeal, now delayed. Colorado Springs planning staff approved Raeden's development plan for Project Taurus in June 2026, and residents filed appeals. On Thursday 23 July 2026 the Planning Commission rejected the appeals 6-2 after a session lasting nearly 15 hours, adding four conditions, with more than 100 people signed up to speak in opposition. Two groups then appealed to City Council, which scheduled a special session vote on the appeals for Thursday 17 September 2026. The developer says the site is zoned for a data center and the plan met code. The City Council special meeting on the appeals began at 9 a.m. on 17 September 2026 at the Pikes Peak Center, moved for expected attendance, with public comment capped at 120 speakers; the appeals concern a development plan modification at 1565 High Tech Way. After a disrupted meeting at which police made arrests, the council voted 7-2 on 17 September 2026 to postpone its decision on the appeals to 13 April 2027, with members citing the need for a large-load contract with Colorado Springs Utilities and city rules for future data centers; Kimberly Gold and Nancy Henjum voted no. Raeden said it was evaluating whether the partnership is right for it. The Gazette describes the project as 50 MW.

## Site status changes

- **Vicksburg campus**. announced, now announced.
- **Wilmington campus (tabled)**. delayed, now delayed.

## Entries removed

An entry is removed only when its source no longer supports it or the record was superseded. Removals are listed so the changelog nets out rather than only accumulating.

- Applied Digital Delta Forge 1

## How to read this

Every figure in the atlas links to the page that states it. Where a value could not be confirmed from a fetched source, the entry reads n.a. rather than an estimate, and roughly two-thirds of the capital-at-risk rows carry either a dollar figure or a megawatt figure but not both, because local rezoning dockets disclose acreage and square footage while investment figures come from economic-development announcements that a withdrawn project never makes. The dollar total of the rows that do disclose a figure is therefore a floor, not a census.

The atlas sits alongside two companion references: the [Nationwide Data Center Delay Watchlist](/data-center-delay-tracker), which tracks project-level slippage, queues, and securities filings, and the [U.S. Data Center Moratorium Tracker](/data-center-moratorium-tracker), which maps state and local policy measures. All citations behind this atlas are listed on [one page](/data-center-capital-atlas/sources).