An Amazon Web Services data center under construction in Sterling, Virginia. Virginia has the highest number of data centers of any state. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

The data center business is booming in the US, and some states are feeling it more than others.

Data centers , which house the computing machines that power digital services, have been around for decades. However, the amount of computing power required to fuel the AI boom has accelerated their development and brought the industry into the mainstream.

This ranking was compiled by analyzing data from Data Center Map , an industry source that maps data center locations around the world. It shows a snapshot of its US database as of October 2026. Business Insider limited this ranking to fully operational data centers.

Data Center Map compiles its data from multiple sources and mainly tracks cloud and colocation service providers. Each data center it tracks has to have an initial capacity of at least 10 cabinets.…