Data Center Agglomeration and Power Infrastructure Capacity in the United States

The continuous expansion of digital infrastructure, especially data centers, has imposed unprecedented, geographically concentrated stress on existing power grids. However, rigorous causal evidence quantifying how these facilities reshape local power-infrastructure supply remains limited. This study builds a comprehensive county-level US panel dataset spanning 2010-2024, uniquely integrating individual data center building footprints and power-plant additions. To mitigate endogeneity and high-d…

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