Nearly $200 Billion Worth of Data Center Projects Have Been Blocked or Delayed This Year
While major tech companies are racing to build massive data centers across the U.S., local communities are increasingly fighting back and in some cases winning. Citing data from Data Center Watch, Bloomberg reports that between April and June, at least 45 data center projects worth nearly $68 billion were blocked or delayed. That’s on top of another 75 projects valued at roughly $130 billion that were disrupted during the first quarter of the year.
- ▪While major tech companies are racing to build massive data centers across the U.S., local communities are increasingly fighting back and in some cases winning.
- ▪Citing data from Data Center Watch, Bloomberg reports that between April and June, at least 45 data center projects worth nearly $68 billion were blocked or delayed.
- ▪That’s on top of another 75 projects valued at roughly $130 billion that were disrupted during the first quarter of the year.
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While major tech companies are racing to build massive data centers across the U.S., local communities are increasingly fighting back and in some cases winning. Citing data from Data Center Watch, Bloomberg reports that between April and June, at least 45 data center projects worth nearly $68 billion were blocked or delayed. That’s on top of another 75 projects valued at roughly $130 billion that were disrupted during the first quarter of the year. The figures come from Data Center Watch, a project from 10a Labs, that tracks grassroots opposition to data center development across the country. Collectively, that means nearly $200 billion worth of proposed data center projects ran into delays or were blocked during the first half of 2026.
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