Monthly report
U.S. data centers in May 2024
In May 2024, the Data Center Census recorded 4 dated changes at 4 tracked projects across 4 states.
Final report for May 2024, published June 1, 2024. Last data change: . Page rebuilt .
← April 2024 June 2024 → All reports · Monthly RSS
- Dated changes
- 4
- Projects with a first milestone
- 3
- Moratorium actions
- 0
- Court cases filed
- 0
The month in one paragraph
In May 2024, the Data Center Census recorded 4 dated changes at 4 tracked projects across 4 states. 3 projects have their earliest dated milestone in the month. That is 3 fewer than the 7 changes recorded in April 2024.
Counts describe what was recorded in this tracker, from published filings, notices and reports. They are not a measure of everything that happened in the industry, and a month’s counts can rise later if sources dated in it are added.
Compared with April 2024
| Measure | May 2024 | April 2024 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dated changes recorded | 4 | 7 | −3 |
| Projects with a change | 4 | 7 | −3 |
| States | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Projects with first milestone | 3 | 5 | −2 |
| Approval events | 0 | 1 | −1 |
| Denial events | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cancellation events | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Construction or operations starts | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Moratorium actions | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Court cases filed | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hearings and votes held | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hearings and votes upcoming | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Projects with their first milestone in May 2024
| Project | First milestone | Status now |
|---|---|---|
| T5 @ Chicago IV Grayslake, Lake County, IL | May 2, 2024 | Approved |
| Meta Cheyenne Data Center Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY | May 9, 2024 | Under construction |
| Microsoft Mega Park Person County, NC | May 30, 2024 | Proposed |
A project appears here when its earliest dated timeline entry is in this month. It does not mean it was announced publicly that month.
Every dated change
| Date | What changed | Project |
|---|---|---|
| May 30, 2024 | Person County's economic development liaison starts an email thread under the subject line 'Project Energy', according to The Assembly The Assembly | Microsoft Mega Park Person County, NC · Proposed |
| May 9, 2024 | Cowboy State Daily reports Meta is behind the Project Cosmo data center in south Cheyenne Cowboy State Daily | Meta Cheyenne Data Center Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY · Under construction |
| May 2, 2024 | T5 announces a 480 MW data center campus in Grayslake T5 Data Centers | T5 @ Chicago IV Grayslake, Lake County, IL · Approved |
| May 2024 | Microsoft announces Mount Pleasant datacenter Microsoft Source | Microsoft Fairwater Mount Pleasant, Racine County, WI · Operating |
How this report is made
Generated from the Census records at build time. It lists dated timeline events, hearings, lawsuit filing dates and moratorium actions that fall in the month; each links to its project record and source. A month-only date belongs to its month. Entries dated only to a year are not placed in a month. Approval, denial, cancellation and construction counts are made by reading the wording of each dated event, so one event can count in more than one group, and a vote on a related item can be miscounted; open the linked record to read the source. Nothing is estimated.
The same data is behind the statistics page, the charts and the downloads.
Cite this page
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Figures may change as records are updated — include the date you retrieved them.
| APA | Data Center Census. (2026). U.S. data centers in May 2024. Retrieved from https://datacentercensus.com/reports/2024-05 |
|---|---|
| MLA | “U.S. data centers in May 2024.” Data Center Census, Oct 14, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/reports/2024-05. |
| Link | https://datacentercensus.com/reports/2024-05 |
Republishing a figure or table? Attribute it to Data Center Census with a link to this page. The underlying data is downloadable as JSON and CSV; the press kit has standing figures and contact details.