Nameplate Data tracks announced US data-center projects and checks each cost, financing, and megawatt claim against primary sources — filings, county records, and utility evidence. The purpose is to quantify which projects are actually financeable, and to give anyone working the market a verified baseline instead of announcement totals.
Announced US data-center projects add up to tens of gigawatts and hundreds of billions of dollars, but most of those figures trace to a press release rather than a filing. Anyone underwriting power, credit, or land against that pipeline needs to know which projects have sites, interconnection evidence, and capital behind them. Nameplate Data checks each claim against project-specific sources and publishes what holds up, what does not, and why.
Program-level totals get smeared across sites. Trade-press estimates get cited as company disclosures. We book a dollar figure only when it traces to a project-specific source.
A contracted PPA capacity gets reported as site load. A multi-phase total gets reported as phase one. Scope substitution fails more often than dollar claims.
Public interconnection queues are aggregated and anonymous by design. Matching an announcement to grid reality takes primary-source work at the utility and county level.
Filings, utility and county records, regulatory testimony, corporate disclosures, and trade press are collected and individually reviewed. Each source keeps its review status.
Every cost, financing, and megawatt claim gets a scope check and a confidence grade — or it goes to the holdout table with a written reason and the list of sources checked.
Each project carries an evidence depth grade (A–D) and model-derived 0–100 indicators. Monthly snapshots freeze into an immutable ledger the model cannot rewrite.
Each cost estimate, MW capture, permit, and financing event carries a confidence level and a link to the original filing or article, with its review status visible. There are no black-box scores.
Track which announcements are real, which died quietly, and what state-level totals look like once every claim needs a source. The notes, holdout tables, and rollups all link to the underlying documents.
Triage the pipeline, corroborate a specific project, and hand off diligence with the source trail attached. API and MCP access put the data in your own tools.
The weekly notes are free. The workbench holds 360+ tracked projects with the evidence, grades, and refusals attached.