Where new power plants are approved or under construction

How to read this map

A county is drawn solid navy when it falls inside every range the map sets, dotted when it misses one, and hatched when it reports no figure for one of the measures, so a hatched county is neither a match nor a miss. On a heatmap, darker means a higher value and a faded county sits outside the range. The count in the title is the count on the day the map ran.

The figures are the same ones behind every county page on this site: Census population and household income, Zillow home values, HUD fair market rents, County Health Rankings measures of crime and health, NOAA temperatures and USDA amenity scores, each stored with its publication year and listed below for this map. "Play with this map" opens the live county map with these ranges already set, so you can move a handle and watch the count change; "Make your own" starts from a blank map.

Sources

• EIA-860M July 2026; nameplate MW of generators in this county planned to operate 2026–2030 with approvals pending or received, or under construction; all fuels incl. batteries. A grid build-out proxy, not data center load

Solid navy marks counties inside every range on this map, dotted counties miss one or all of them, and hatched counties have no figure for that measure. On a heatmap, darker means higher and faded counties fall outside the range.