Nebraska Data Center Intelligence

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

One app for every Nebraska county: data center sites, power, grid and FEMA risk, with hearing alerts and an API. 25 data center buildings are mapped in 3 of its 93 counties, and businesses pay 8.50¢ per kWh for power, 36% below the US average.

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Where are Nebraska's data centers?

25 mapped buildings sit in 3 of Nebraska's 93 counties. Douglas County has the most: 12.

Which risks do the counties with data centers face?

Tornadoes are the most common risk: 2 of the 3 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 93 counties as a table

County facts

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

Business power in Nebraska costs 8.50¢ per kWh, 36% below the US, and demand grew 58.4% since 2019.

What do businesses pay for power?

8.50¢ per kWh in 2025, 36% below the US average of 13.37¢.

Businesses2nd cheapest of 51
Nebraska
8.50¢
US
13.37¢

How fast is business power demand growing?

Business power use in Nebraska grew 58.4% since 2019, almost 6 times the US rate (+10.5%).

What makes Nebraska's power?

39.8 TWh generated in 2025: coal 46%, wind 29%, nuclear 17%.

Coal46%
Wind29%
Nuclear17%
Natural gas3.9%
Hydro2.9%

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

How much new power is proposed?

1,915 MW of new plants are proposed for 2026–2030, 17% of today's 11,497 MW: natural gas 88%, solar 5%, wind 4%, other 3%.

Natural gas1,681 MW
Solar100 MW
Wind75 MW
Other (EIA's catch-all)53 MW
Petroleum6 MW

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

SPP serves 96.3% of Nebraska's power sales; tornadoes and drought cost it most.

Which grid serves Nebraska?

SPP serves 96.3% of Nebraska's retail power sales.

SPP96.3%
No ISO/RTO3.7%

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

How much water do Nebraska's power plants use?

Nebraska's power plants took in 824 billion gallons of water in 2024 to cool and returned more than 99%; 4.4 billion gallons were used up .

Returned 99.5%Used up 0.5%

Which hazards cost Nebraska most?

Tornadoes and drought are Nebraska's biggest risks: each rates relatively high against other states .

TornadoRelatively high
DroughtRelatively high
Inland floodingRelatively low
Heat waveRelatively low
WildfireRelatively low
EarthquakeVery low

Which AI campuses are in Nebraska?

Nebraska has 4 AI campuses on the list; none of them is listed as being built.

AI campuses in Nebraska: Google Lincoln, Google Omaha, Google Papillion, Meta Sarpy.

Campuses without a county on record: Google Papillion. They are left off the county map.

Who uses it, and what do they see first?

Lawyers, brokers, site teams, utilities, insurers and investors each start from their own view of Nebraska's 93 counties.

Land-use and energy lawyers

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

Douglas County12 mapped · risk relatively high
Sarpy County12 mapped · risk relatively moderate
Buffalo County1 mapped · risk relatively low

3counties 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.

Douglas County12
Sarpy County12
Buffalo County1

12mapped buildings in Douglas County, the most in Nebraska

Site selection teams

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

3of 93 counties have mapped data centers

Utilities and power buyers

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

Nebraska+58.4%
US+10.5%

+58.4%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.

Tornado2 of 3
Heat wave1 of 3
Inland flooding1 of 3
Drought0 of 3

2of 3 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.

Natural gas1,681
Solar100
Wind75
Other53

1,915MW of new plants proposed for 2026–2030

What's inside Nebraska Data Center Intelligence?

One app for all 93 Nebraska counties, plus hearing alerts and an API. Every screen below is filled with Nebraska's real data.

The Intelligence app

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

app.camsahead.com/intelligence/nebraska

OverviewMapSitesAI campusesProjectsPowerWaterRiskHearingsAlertsAPI

25mapped buildings

4AI campuses

8.50¢business power, per kWh

+17.9%business demand, last 12 months

Watchlist	Mapped	Flood	Heat	Drought
Douglas County	12	high	high	low
Sarpy County	12	moderate	moderate	low
Buffalo County	1	low	low	moderate

Hearings and filings

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

Hearings · Nebraska

Nebraska · counties you follow Planning, zoning and utility agendas

Douglas County12 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Sarpy County12 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Buffalo County1 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 · Nebraska

Power demandBusiness power sales +17.9% on the year before: 16.8 TWhEIA-861M, 2025-09 to 2026-08
Site riskDouglas County (12 mapped buildings) rates Relatively high for inland floodingFEMA National Risk Index
New supply1,915 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/31055

{
  "fips": "31055",
  "name": "Douglas County",
  "state": "NE",
  "pop2025": 606460,
  "pop_change_2020_pct": 3.8,
  "density_per_sqmi": 1857.2,
  "nri": {
    "risk_rating": "Relatively High",
    "ifld": {
      "rating": "Relatively High",
      "score": 95.1

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    },
    "hwav": {
      "rating": "Relatively High",
      "score": 97.5
    },
    "drgt": {
      "rating": "Relatively Low",
      "score": 62.1
    }
  },
  "grid": {
    "rtos": [
      "SPP"
    ],
    "utilities_n": 1
  },
  "state_power": {
    "commercial_cents_kwh": 8.5,
    "us_commercial_cents_kwh": 13.37,
    "as_of": "2025"
  }
}

What does it cost?

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

Nebraska 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.
Epoch AI: "AI data centers", CC BY 4.0, retrieved November 7, 2026; changes noted.
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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Nebraska Data Center Intelligence

Where are Nebraska's data centers?

Which risks do the counties with data centers face?

What will a Nebraska 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 Nebraska's power?

How much new power is proposed?

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

Which grid serves Nebraska?

How much water do Nebraska's power plants use?

Which hazards cost Nebraska most?

Which AI campuses are in Nebraska?

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 Nebraska 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)

AI campuses

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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