Maryland Data Center Intelligence

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

One app for every Maryland county or city: data center sites, power, grid and FEMA risk, with hearing alerts and an API. 15 data center buildings are mapped in 7 of its 24 counties and cities, and businesses pay 14.72¢ per kWh for power, 10% above the US average.

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Where are Maryland's data centers?

15 mapped buildings sit in 7 of Maryland's 24 counties and cities. Baltimore city has the most: 6.

Which risks do the counties and cities with data centers face?

Heat waves are the most common risk: 4 of the 7 counties and cities with mapped data centers rate high for them.

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

All 24 counties and cities as a table

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

Business power in Maryland costs 14.72¢ per kWh, 10% above the US, and demand fell 4.1% since 2019.

What do businesses pay for power?

14.72¢ per kWh in 2025, 10% above the US average of 13.37¢.

Businesses13th most expensive of 51
Maryland
14.72¢
US
13.37¢

How fast is business power demand growing?

Business power use in Maryland fell 4.1% since 2019, while the US grew 10.5%.

What makes Maryland's power?

37.6 TWh generated in 2025: natural gas 43%, nuclear 39%, coal 6%.

Natural gas43%
Nuclear39%
Coal6.1%
Hydro4.2%
Solar3.4%
Wind1.8%
Petroleum1.0%

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

How much new power is proposed?

300 MW of new plants are proposed for 2026–2030, 2% of today's 12,178 MW, all solar.

Solar300 MW

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

PJM serves all of Maryland's power sales; coastal flooding, heat waves, hurricanes, tornadoes and drought cost it most.

Which grid serves Maryland?

PJM serves all of Maryland's retail power sales.

PJMAll

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

How much water do Maryland's power plants use?

Maryland's power plants took in 1,287 billion gallons of water in 2024 to cool and returned more than 99%; 2.9 billion gallons were used up .

Returned 99.8%Used up 0.2%

Which hazards cost Maryland most?

Coastal flooding, heat waves, hurricanes, tornadoes and drought are Maryland's biggest risks: each rates moderate against other states .

Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
Heat waveRelatively moderate
HurricaneRelatively moderate
TornadoRelatively moderate
DroughtRelatively moderate
Inland floodingRelatively low
EarthquakeRelatively low
WildfireVery 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 Maryland's 24 counties and cities.

Land-use and energy lawyers

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

Baltimore city6 mapped · risk relatively high
Anne Arundel County2 mapped · risk relatively moderate
Howard County2 mapped · risk relatively low

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

Land and industrial brokers

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

Baltimore city6
Anne Arundel County2
Howard County2
Prince George's County2
Baltimore County1

6mapped buildings in Baltimore city, the most in Maryland

Site selection teams

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

7of 24 counties and cities have mapped data centers

Utilities and power buyers

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

Maryland−4.1%
US+10.5%

−4.1%business power sales since 2019, US +10.5%

Insurers and lenders

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

Heat wave4 of 7
Inland flooding4 of 7
Tornado2 of 7
Drought0 of 7

4of 7 counties and cities 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.

Solar300

300MW of new plants proposed for 2026–2030

What's inside Maryland Data Center Intelligence?

One app for all 24 Maryland counties and cities, plus hearing alerts and an API. Every screen below is filled with Maryland's real data.

The Intelligence app

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

app.camsahead.com/intelligence/maryland

OverviewMapSitesAI campusesProjectsPowerWaterRiskHearingsAlertsAPI

15mapped buildings

14.72¢business power, per kWh

+0.3%business demand, last 12 months

Watchlist	Mapped	Flood	Heat	Drought
Baltimore city	6	high	high	not rated
Anne Arundel County	2	moderate	moderate	moderate
Howard County	2	moderate	moderate	moderate
Prince George's County	2	high	high	moderate
Baltimore County	1	high	high	moderate

Hearings and filings

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

Hearings · Maryland

Maryland · counties and cities you follow Planning, zoning and utility agendas

Baltimore city6 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Anne Arundel County2 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Howard County2 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Prince George's County2 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 · Maryland

Power demandBusiness power sales +0.3% on the year before: 27.7 TWhEIA-861M, 2025-09 to 2026-08
Site riskBaltimore city (6 mapped buildings) rates Relatively high for inland floodingFEMA National Risk Index
New supply300 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/24510

{
  "fips": "24510",
  "name": "Baltimore city",
  "state": "MD",
  "pop2025": 569997,
  "pop_change_2020_pct": -2.7,
  "density_per_sqmi": 7041.7,
  "nri": {
    "risk_rating": "Relatively High",
    "ifld": {
      "rating": "Relatively High",
      "score": 94.3

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    },
    "hwav": {
      "rating": "Relatively High",
      "score": 99.4
    }
  },
  "grid": {
    "rtos": [
      "PJM"
    ],
    "utilities_n": 1
  },
  "state_power": {
    "commercial_cents_kwh": 14.72,
    "us_commercial_cents_kwh": 13.37,
    "as_of": "2025"
  }
}

What does it cost?

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

Maryland Data Center Intelligence$390 a month

The Intelligence app: every county or city'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
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What stays open? The map, the county or city 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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