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About Main Street Megawatt

Main Street Megawatt tracks U.S. data center projects, the jobs each one brings where a public source states them and the officials who represent each site. It is nonpartisan. It quotes officials in both parties in their own words and links every figure to a public source.

How we work

• Every figure links to a public source: a company release, a state or county filing, a government data set or a news report. If we cannot link a source, we leave the figure out.
• Construction jobs and permanent jobs are shown side by side and never added together. Actual jobs and planned jobs are never added together either.
• When a source gives a hedged figure such as "more than 1,000", we keep its wording. We never add up hedged estimates into a precise looking total.
• Officials are quoted in their own words, with the date and where they said it.
• Election results are AP race calls and stay marked unofficial until the state certifies them.

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Press and corrections

Reporters can use any figure on this site with a link to the page it came from. The data is free to reuse under the Open Database License. For press questions or to report an error, email team@mainstreetmegawatt.com or use the correction form.

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