We’re publishing this interactive map to make it easier to explore the data from our report: The AI Gas Rush: Risks and Implications of “Bring Your Own Power” (Better Data Center Project and Earthjustice, October 2026).
Click on a project to see more details about its power generation equipment and potential emissions. You can use this map to look at where projects are located compared to planned data centers (from FracTracker Alliance’s database) as well as gas basins and existing pipelines.
We’ve also added overlays for regions that are in “maintenance” or “non-attainment” of air quality standards. In these regions, projects would need to go through more rigorous permitting, which can take longer to get approved and require stronger mitigations to reduce a project’s emissions. But often developers are siting projects just outside of these regions. For example, four projects are located within a few miles of the Dallas-Fort Worth ozone non-attainment region: Maypearl Generation Plant, NRG Prairie Energy Center, Hedgehog Power Generation, and Pacifico Spunky Power Station.
Read the report overview from Earthjustice or the full report for more. The full dataset is available here.
Sources:
This data is compiled from multiple sources and supplemented with our own analysis and verification of permits, news reports, and other public disclosures.
- FracTracker Alliance, U.S. Data Centers Tracker
- Global Energy Monitor, Global Oil and Gas Plant Tracker
- Environmental Integrity Project, Oil & Gas Watch Tracker
- Cleanview, Bypassing the Grid: How Data Center Developers Are Building Their Own Power Plants
- EIA, Sedimentary basins of the US (May 2011)
- EIA, Tight oil and shale gas plays, lower 48 states (December 2021)
- EIA, Natural gas interstate and intrastate pipelines (January 2020)
- EPA, Green Book NAAQS GIS data downloads and PM2.5 design values from 2023–2025