Data centre database: North America July 2026

21 August 2026 | Research

Grace Langham | Simon Sherrington

Tracker | Excel | Data Centres


Analysys Mason's Data centre database tracks investment in physical data centre facilities in North America. It provides coverage of the largest data centre owners and hyperscalers in the region, as well as major North American project announcements in the last 12 months. 

The database provides details of data centres that are planned, under construction and operational, and enables analysis by region, country and city. It is updated monthly.

Data has been gathered from publicly available sources, including information published by investors, governments, public information sources (such as planning portals), regulators, vendors and local newspaper articles. 

Key metrics (where publicly available)

  • Data centre name
  • Ownership
  • Owner type (hyperscaler, operator, AI compute provider, co-location provider, private equity/investment fund, other IT service or cloud provider, government, other)
  • Joint venture investments
  • Location (street, town/city/country/region)
  • Facility type (co-location, edge, AI, enterprise, hyperscale, other)
 
  • Facility tier (1–4)
  • Building size (square metres)
  • IT space (square metres)
  • Total racks
  • Build status (planned, under construction, operational, decommissioned)
  • Planned launch date
  • Expansion plans
  • Total power capacity
 
  • IT power capacity
  • Power type (grid, nuclear, renewable (by type))
  • Renewable percentage
  • Cooling types
  • Total cost of build
  • Acquisition history
  • Standalone data centre or data centre within a campus

Geographical coverage

  • Canada
  • USA

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Authors

Grace Langham

Senior Analyst, expert in sustainability and ESG

Simon Sherrington

Research Director, expert in communications infrastructure, data centres and sustainability