We track how much power utilities have actually committed to data centers, what large customers pay for it, what Big Tech has signed, what it costs to build, and where the copper networks underneath are being shut off. Every figure is tied to the filing it came from, and all of it is free to use and cite.
Metro Colo Research answers the questions owners, developers and buyers bring to Metro Colo Advisory, with numbers anyone can check.
What utilities say has been requested, what is under signed contract, and what is actually running, in each utility's own words.
Build cost per megawatt, lease rates, power prices and the large-load tariffs that set what data centers pay for electricity.
Big Tech lease commitments that have not started yet, and the copper landline networks carriers are retiring.
Each one answers a single question with sourced numbers and is updated as new filings come in. Data is published on metrocoloadvisory.com and archived on Zenodo with a permanent DOI.
How much data center power US utilities say has been requested, how much is under signed contract and how much is actually running, quarter by quarter since Q3 2025. Includes a log of named data center power deals before state regulators.
Data center leases Microsoft, Meta, Oracle and Alphabet have signed but not yet started, quarter by quarter since 2023, with the exact filing wording behind every figure.
How data centers and other very large customers pay for power, utility by utility: large-load tariffs, data center rate classes, special contracts and decision dates.
What it costs to build, lease and run a data center in North America: cost per megawatt and per watt, lease rates, power use and power cost, and delivery timelines.
Where AT&T, Verizon and other carriers have filed with the FCC to retire copper landline service, with every filing linked and a lookup of affected wire centers by state.
Public sales and ground leases of data center land across the US, with price per acre and per megawatt, built from deeds, county records and regulatory filings.
The same four rules apply to every tracker we publish.
Figures come from utility filings, SEC filings, regulatory dockets, deeds, FCC notices and grid operator reports. News coverage is used only to find those documents.
Each figure keeps its source's label and unit, the page or slide it appears on and the date it refers to. Figures with different definitions are never added together.
Before each release, a separate review re-opens the source documents and tests every headline figure against them.
When a figure is wrong, we fix it on the tracker and in the downloadable data, and the dataset record gets a new version.
Our data and analysis have been quoted, cited or published by these outlets.
All of our data is free to use under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Credit Metro Colo Advisory and link to the tracker the figures came from.
Metro Colo Advisory, "AI Power Reality Check," data as of November 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24086660. License: CC BY 4.0.
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