Locator: 50000LDCS.
Disclaimers: so many I can't list them all. See the blog's disclaimer.
Meta plans to add ten LDCs each year on average for the next three years.
META plans to add an additional 10 LDCs per year for the next three years. Sounds like a lot. Do the math. 30 / 4010 = 0.7% -- that's less than 1% of existing LDCs in the US right now.
In the past year:
- Texas added: 60
- Ohio added: 16
- Louisiana added 9
- Total added in those three states in past year = 85.
- Why would California lose 22 LDCs in the past year?
- I can't verify those numbers, but if accurate --
- did some centers simply "age out"?
- did these California LDCs simply get too expensive (electricity costs)?
- if so, did they simply re-position a lot of those chips to Texas?
Various ways of looking at the addition:
- 10/85 = 12%
- 10/529 = 1.9%.
- 10/614 = 1.6%
Texas (397), Ohio (195), Louisiana (22) = 614 in those three states.
- an additional 10 LDCs per year / 614 now = 1.6%
Change in less than a year:
State, April, 2025 --> February, 2026:
- Virginia (the DC area): 574 --> 570
- Texas: 337 --> 397
- California: 310 --> 288
- Illinois: 222 --> 210
- Ohio: 179 --> 195
- New York State: 139 --> 134
- Georgia: 139 --> 207
- Oregon: 131 --> 123
- Florida: 121 --> 107
- Washington State: 113 --> 108
- Louisiana: 13 --> 22
LDCs:
- Data Center Map, link here, April 16, 2025: the map is interactive and one of the most accessible sources of information regarding LDCs. One year ago, April 16, 2025:
February 17, 2026: currently the US has 4,010 large data centers.
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