Colorado Data Center Intelligence

Mapped Colorado data center sites, with their power, water and risk

One app for every Colorado county: data center sites, power, grid and FEMA risk, with hearing alerts and an API. 27 data center buildings are mapped in 7 of its 64 counties, and businesses pay 12.37¢ per kWh for power, 7% below the US average.

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Where are Colorado's data centers?

27 mapped buildings sit in 7 of Colorado's 64 counties. Arapahoe County has the most: 11.

Which risks do the counties with data centers face?

Tornadoes are the most common risk: 6 of the 7 counties with mapped data centers rate high for them.

Bars: counties with mapped data centers that rate Relatively high or Very high . Tap one to show it on the map.

All 64 counties as a table

County facts

What will a Colorado site pay for power, and how fast is demand growing?

Business power in Colorado costs 12.37¢ per kWh, 7% below the US, and demand fell 0.8% since 2019.

What do businesses pay for power?

12.37¢ per kWh in 2025, 7% below the US average of 13.37¢.

Businesses24th most expensive of 51
Colorado
12.37¢
US
13.37¢

How fast is business power demand growing?

Business power use in Colorado fell 0.8% since 2019, while the US grew 10.5%.

What makes Colorado's power?

56.6 TWh generated in 2025: natural gas 32%, wind 30%, coal 25%.

Natural gas32%
Wind30%
Coal25%
Solar9.9%
Hydro3.0%

Under 1% each: other biomass, pumped storage, petroleum, other (eia's catch-all).

How much new power is proposed?

7,209 MW of new plants are proposed for 2026–2030, about a third of today's 20,913 MW: solar 38%, other 26%, wind 21%, natural gas 15%.

Solar2,738 MW
Other (EIA's catch-all)1,848 MW
Wind1,540 MW
Natural gas1,082 MW

Which grid would a Colorado site join, and what are its water and hazard risks?

No ISO/RTO covers Colorado's power sales; wildfires cost it most.

Which grid serves Colorado?

Colorado has no ISO/RTO : utilities balance their own areas for all of its retail sales.

No ISO/RTOAll

Share of 2025 retail sales, by each utility's balancing authority .

How much water do Colorado's power plants use?

Colorado's power plants took in 97.3 billion gallons of water in 2024 to cool and returned about 88%; 10.9 billion gallons were used up .

Returned 88.8%Used up 11.2%

Which hazards cost Colorado most?

Wildfires are Colorado's biggest risk (relatively high) ; the rest rate moderate or lower.

WildfireRelatively high
Inland floodingRelatively moderate
TornadoRelatively moderate
DroughtRelatively moderate
Heat waveRelatively low
EarthquakeRelatively low

Who uses it, and what do they see first?

Lawyers, brokers, site teams, utilities, insurers and investors each start from their own view of Colorado's 64 counties.

Land-use and energy lawyers

Follow counties with data centers, their hearings and FEMA risk.

Arapahoe County11 mapped · risk relatively moderate
Douglas County6 mapped · risk relatively moderate
El Paso County4 mapped · risk relatively moderate

7counties with data centers to follow, each with its planning and zoning agendas

Land and industrial brokers

Rank counties by mapped data center buildings, with the power price behind them.

Arapahoe County11
Douglas County6
El Paso County4
Denver County3
Adams County1

11mapped buildings in Arapahoe County, the most in Colorado

Site selection teams

Shortlist counties by mapped sites, power and risk on one map.

7of 64 counties have mapped data centers

Utilities and power buyers

Follow prices, demand and the grid behind each site. Bars: business power sales since 2019.

Colorado−0.8%
US+10.5%

−0.8%business power sales since 2019, US +10.5%

Insurers and lenders

Bars: how many of the counties with data centers rate high for each hazard.

Tornado6 of 7
Inland flooding3 of 7
Wildfire3 of 7
Drought0 of 7

6of 7 counties with mapped data centers rate high for at least one

Investors and analysts

See which new power plants are proposed, by source and size. Bars: MW proposed.

Solar2,738
Other1,848
Wind1,540
Natural gas1,082

7,209MW of new plants proposed for 2026–2030

What's inside Colorado Data Center Intelligence?

One app for all 64 Colorado counties, plus hearing alerts and an API. Every screen below is filled with Colorado's real data.

The Intelligence app

Every county's sites, power, water and risk on one screen, with your watchlist.

app.camsahead.com/intelligence/colorado

OverviewMapSitesAI campusesProjectsPowerWaterRiskHearingsAlertsAPI

27mapped buildings

12.37¢business power, per kWh

+1.3%business demand, last 12 months

Watchlist	Mapped	Flood	Heat	Drought
Arapahoe County	11	moderate	low	low
Douglas County	6	moderate	low	low
El Paso County	4	high	low	low
Denver County	3	high	low	Very low
Adams County	1	moderate	low	low

Hearings and filings

Follow counties and cases; get the agenda and the record when a hearing is posted.

Hearings · Colorado

Colorado · counties you follow Planning, zoning and utility agendas

Arapahoe County11 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Douglas County6 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
El Paso County4 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Denver County3 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts

Alerts

New projects, stage changes, hearings and data updates for what you follow, by email or in the app.

Alerts · Colorado

Power demandBusiness power sales +1.3% on the year before: 21.4 TWhEIA-861M, 2025-09 to 2026-08
Site riskArapahoe County (11 mapped buildings) rates Relatively high for tornadoFEMA National Risk Index
New supply7,209 MW of new plants proposed for 2026–2030EIA-860

Data API

County, power, risk and project data as JSON for your own tools.

api.camsahead.com

GET /v1/counties/08005

{
  "fips": "08005",
  "name": "Arapahoe County",
  "state": "CO",
  "pop2025": 673820,
  "pop_change_2020_pct": 2.9,
  "density_per_sqmi": 844.5,
  "nri": {
    "risk_rating": "Relatively Moderate",
    "ifld": {
      "rating": "Relatively Moderate",
      "score": 92.5

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    },
    "hwav": {
      "rating": "Relatively Low",
      "score": 68.6
    },
    "drgt": {
      "rating": "Relatively Low",
      "score": 44.6
    }
  },
  "grid": {
    "rtos": [],
    "utilities_n": 4
  },
  "state_power": {
    "commercial_cents_kwh": 12.37,
    "us_commercial_cents_kwh": 13.37,
    "as_of": "2025"
  }
}

What does it cost?

Colorado Data Center Intelligence is $390 a month for 3 seats.

Colorado Data Center Intelligence$390 a month

The Intelligence app: every county's sites, power, water and risk
Alerts on new projects, filings and hearings
Reports as web page, PDF and CSV
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Data APIFrom $999 a month

County, power, risk and project data as JSON
Keys for your own tools and models

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Public bodies$4,680 a year

Counties, cities, utilities and co-ops
Paid by invoice

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What stays open? The map, the county pages and every data center page stay open to everyone.

Sources and updates

How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.

OpenStreetMap contributors: data center buildings, as of November 6, 2026; Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0, free copy on request.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Form EIA-861 (released Oct 2026) and Form EIA-861 2025 detailed data (released Oct 2026): business power prices and sales by state, grid operators and utilities by county; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Forms EIA-923/906/920 (released Sep 2026): power generated by source, 2025; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Form EIA-860 (released Sep 2026): power plants proposed for 2026 to 2030; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Form EIA-860 (released Sep 2026): power plant capacity by state, 2025; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): thermoelectric cooling water data 2024, Forms EIA-860 and EIA-923 (retrieved Oct 2026): power plant cooling water by state.
FEMA: National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), NRI_Table_Counties and NRI_Table_States: natural hazard ratings by county and expected annual loss by state; retrieved October 31, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
U.S. Census Bureau: US Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 county population estimates (co-est2025-alldata.csv): people by county.

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Colorado Data Center Intelligence

Where are Colorado's data centers?

Which risks do the counties with data centers face?

What will a Colorado site pay for power, and how fast is demand growing?

What do businesses pay for power?

How fast is business power demand growing?

What makes Colorado's power?

How much new power is proposed?

Which grid would a Colorado site join, and what are its water and hazard risks?

Which grid serves Colorado?

How much water do Colorado's power plants use?

Which hazards cost Colorado most?

Who uses it, and what do they see first?

Land-use and energy lawyers

Land and industrial brokers

Site selection teams

Utilities and power buyers

Insurers and lenders

Investors and analysts

What's inside Colorado Data Center Intelligence?

The Intelligence app

Hearings and filings

Alerts

Data API

What does it cost?

Sources and updates

Mapped data center buildings

Drought, the water view

Expected annual loss (FEMA rating)

Cents per kWh

ISO/RTO

Commercial sales

TWh (terawatt-hours)

Proposed capacity

Other (EIA's catch-all)

Balancing authority

Water taken in and used up

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