We read the permit record so a market conversation starts from evidence.

What is in the record today

Every figure on this page is a count of records we pulled ourselves from a government portal. None of it is bought, and none of it is a vendor's marketing claim. Counts are deduplicated, because several counties issue a building record and a zoning record for the same work and counting both would inflate every market on this page by roughly half.

Every capacity figure in the record

33 filings out of 4,346 state a capacity. That ratio is the point: megawatts are the field public records almost never carry, so a permit that names one is worth reading closely. The basis matters as much as the number. A figure the applicant stated for the project is a claim about the build. A generator nameplate is backup plant, and treating it as sellable load is the most common way these records get misquoted.

What the filings are for

Every facility we track, market by market

The permit record above says what is being built. It cannot say what is already standing, because a building that opened in 2019 stopped generating filings years ago. That question is answered by our verified inventory, which covers North America and is the second half of this page.

These rows carry no source link, and that difference is deliberate rather than an oversight. The permit counts are public record and you can open every one of them yourself. The facility counts are our verified inventory, which we can show you and will not hand over as a file, and street addresses are held back for the same reason.

From our verified inventory rather than from a public record, so these rows carry no filing link and street addresses are held back. The building is what is verified, not the availability of space inside it: a planned facility is an intention rather than a delivery date, and an operational one may be entirely full. See what a verified building does and does not mean.

What has been announced, and why it is the softest layer

The permit record says what a jurisdiction has issued. The facility database says what exists. Neither carries megawatts at any scale, because counties rarely publish capacity and our facility inventory does not hold it. Announcements do, which is why they are here, and they are the weakest evidence on this page.

Nobody has to build what they announce. The figure is the one the developer chose to publish, the date moves, and the largest announced project in Northern Virginia is now a void rezoning with no buildings on it. Read this table as a map of intent and ambition, not of supply.

Our announced-capacity collection has no sourced megawatt figure for New York Tri-State, Des Moines and Council Bluffs, Indiana and New Carlisle, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Central Washington. That is a coverage limit, not evidence of no development. See the individual market guides for the projects and source limitations.

How to read a permit like a buyer

The value is not in the total. It is in which kind of filing is moving, because the four types answer completely different questions.

What this record cannot tell you

It is worth being blunt about the limit, because a number quoted out of context is a liability in a sales conversation.

• A permit is not availability. No public document anywhere discloses what is contractible at a named building. That number comes from an operator call, and it changes weekly.
• A permit is not megawatts. Most jurisdictions publish square footage and valuation. Very few publish IT load, and the ones that publish generator ratings are describing backup, not capacity.
• The applicant is usually not the operator. Filings name engineers, general contractors and single-purpose holding companies. Only the ones on the record by a recognizable name are published as operators here, and the rest are counted as unnamed.
• Coverage is uneven by design. Some counties publish a live permit feed, some publish nothing machine readable at all. We collect where a source exists and say so where one does not, rather than filling gaps with estimates.

Markets we do not collect filings in yet

Chicago, Silicon Valley, Hillsboro and Portland, and the New York Tri-State area carry the facility layer but no permit collection. Their construction record comes from published research instead, which is stated on each page. A market gets a permit collector when a probe shows the portal is machine readable, publishes a usable work description, and yields real filings from the last 24 months. Sources that fail that test are written down as dead ends rather than quietly retried.

The nearest thing to a listings answer is still a call. If your requirement is in a market below, we will tell you what the record shows and what it does not, and then go ask the operators the part that is not written down anywhere.