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Governors who back pauses now oversee 41% of planned US data center capacity

Cleanview counts 158.6 gigawatts in nine states. The pledges are pauses, not bans.

Leaked on 06 November 2026

Server racks inside a data center (illustrative)
Server racks inside a data center (illustrative). Photo: Carl Lender from Sunrise, USA / Wikimedia Commons, cropped (CC BY 2.0)

Nine states now have a governor or governor-elect who has promised or already imposed a pause on new data centers, and those states hold 158.6 GW of planned capacity, or 41% of the US pipeline, market intelligence firm Cleanview reported after the midterms. unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) shared the figure on X.

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Cleanview says another 69.2 GW, or 18%, is in states where the winner wants to change tax breaks or other rules. DatacenterDynamics relayed the analysis and noted Cleanview's view that the results do not signal the end of the data center boom.

Most pauses would last until new rules are written, Cleanview says.

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