Washington Data Center Intelligence

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

One app for every Washington county: data center sites, power, grid and FEMA risk, with hearing alerts and an API. 71 data center buildings are mapped in 7 of its 39 counties, and businesses pay 10.97¢ per kWh for power, 18% below the US average.

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Where are Washington's data centers?

71 mapped buildings sit in 7 of Washington's 39 counties. Grant County has the most: 33.

Which risks do the counties with data centers face?

Heat waves are the most common risk: 3 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 39 counties as a table

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

Business power in Washington costs 10.97¢ per kWh, 18% below the US, and demand grew 13.8% since 2019.

What do businesses pay for power?

10.97¢ per kWh in 2025, 18% below the US average of 13.37¢.

Businesses16th cheapest of 51
Washington
10.97¢
US
13.37¢

How fast is business power demand growing?

Business power use in Washington grew 13.8% since 2019, more than 1 times the US rate (+10.5%).

What makes Washington's power?

101.7 TWh generated in 2025: hydro 64%, natural gas 16%, wind 8%.

Hydro64%
Natural gas16%
Wind7.9%
Nuclear7.6%
Coal3.1%

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

How much new power is proposed?

2,481 MW of new plants are proposed for 2026–2030, 8% of today's 30,960 MW: other 49%, solar 46%, wind 5%.

Other (EIA's catch-all)1,205 MW
Solar1,150 MW
Wind126 MW

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

No ISO/RTO covers 99.9% of Washington's power sales; coastal flooding, wildfires and earthquakes cost it most.

Which grid serves Washington?

Most of Washington has no ISO/RTO : utilities balance their own areas for 99.9% of retail sales.

No ISO/RTO99.9%

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

How much water do Washington's power plants use?

Washington's power plants took in 15.4 billion gallons of water in 2024 to cool and returned about 24%; 11.7 billion gallons were used up .

Returned 24.0%Used up 76.0%

Which hazards cost Washington most?

Coastal flooding, wildfires and earthquakes are Washington's biggest risks: each rates relatively high against other states .

Coastal floodingRelatively high
WildfireRelatively high
EarthquakeRelatively high
Inland floodingRelatively moderate
Heat waveRelatively moderate
TornadoRelatively low
DroughtVery 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 Washington's 39 counties.

Land-use and energy lawyers

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

Grant County33 mapped · risk relatively low
King County15 mapped · risk very high
Douglas County12 mapped · risk relatively low

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.

Grant County33
King County15
Douglas County12
Snohomish County4
Pierce County3

33mapped buildings in Grant County, the most in Washington

Site selection teams

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

7of 39 counties have mapped data centers

Utilities and power buyers

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

Washington+13.8%
US+10.5%

+13.8%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.

Heat wave3 of 7
Inland flooding3 of 7
Drought0 of 7
Tornado0 of 7

3of 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.

Other1,205
Solar1,150
Wind126

2,481MW of new plants proposed for 2026–2030

What's inside Washington Data Center Intelligence?

One app for all 39 Washington counties, plus hearing alerts and an API. Every screen below is filled with Washington's real data.

The Intelligence app

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

app.camsahead.com/intelligence/washington

OverviewMapSitesAI campusesProjectsPowerWaterRiskHearingsAlertsAPI

71mapped buildings

10.97¢business power, per kWh

+1.3%business demand, last 12 months

Watchlist	Mapped	Flood	Heat	Drought
Grant County	33	moderate	moderate	low
King County	15	Very high	high	Very low
Douglas County	12	moderate	low	Very low
Snohomish County	4	high	high	Very low
Pierce County	3	high	high	Very low

Hearings and filings

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

Hearings · Washington

Washington · counties you follow Planning, zoning and utility agendas

Grant County33 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
King County15 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Douglas County12 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Snohomish County4 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 · Washington

Power demandBusiness power sales +1.3% on the year before: 33.9 TWhEIA-861M, 2025-09 to 2026-08
Site riskKing County (15 mapped buildings) rates Very high for inland floodingFEMA National Risk Index
New supply2,481 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/53025

{
  "fips": "53025",
  "name": "Grant County",
  "state": "WA",
  "pop2025": 105727,
  "pop_change_2020_pct": 6.6,
  "density_per_sqmi": 39.5,
  "nri": {
    "risk_rating": "Relatively Low",
    "ifld": {
      "rating": "Relatively Moderate",
      "score": 77.2

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    },
    "hwav": {
      "rating": "Relatively Moderate",
      "score": 87.1
    },
    "drgt": {
      "rating": "Relatively Low",
      "score": 32.7
    }
  },
  "grid": {
    "rtos": [],
    "utilities_n": 5
  },
  "state_power": {
    "commercial_cents_kwh": 10.97,
    "us_commercial_cents_kwh": 13.37,
    "as_of": "2025"
  }
}

What does it cost?

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

Washington 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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Washington Data Center Intelligence

Where are Washington's data centers?

Which risks do the counties with data centers face?

What will a Washington 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 Washington's power?

How much new power is proposed?

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

Which grid serves Washington?

How much water do Washington's power plants use?

Which hazards cost Washington 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 Washington 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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