Construction bond
Bid bond, performance bond, and payment bond on the data center, substations, water, and off-site roads.
Agency growth
Hyperscale data centers
The bond is the door. The commercial book is the opportunity.
These sites do not get built without contractors. Those contractors cannot start work, pull permits, or keep a license without a bond. Your cross-sell sits on the same accounts: general liability, inland marine, builders risk, workers compensation, and umbrella.
The general contractor, electrical, heating and cooling, and civil contractors are already in that city. A VerticalReserve listing there is how you meet them — not a ready-made book of business.
Required bonds
The bond is the door
A contractor cannot start a job, pull a city permit, or keep a license without the bond. That is the same moment as highway, port, and school work — around a much larger build.
License and permit bonds
Contractors license bond, electrical bond, heating and cooling bond, and city permit bond before the trades can work.
Agency cross-sell opportunity
The bond opens the account. Then write general liability, inland marine, builders risk, workers compensation, and umbrella on the same contractors.
What we list here
The largest sites — not every data center in America
Thousands of data centers are open, being built, or announced. This page is not that list. These are the largest projects recently opened (2025–2026), under construction, or newly planned, so you can see where bond and insurance demand is stacking up.
Names, size, and status are as publicly reported. They show where the work is — not a promised book of accounts. See cities with a Hyperscale Data Hub tag on Metro/City Listings.
2025–2026
Newly operational
Very large data centers that have recently opened for AI and cloud work.
| Facility | Scale | Location | Company | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colossus 2 | 1,563 MW | Shelby County, TN | xAI | Operational 2026 |
| EdgeCore Mesa (PH03) | 450 MW | Maricopa County, AZ | EdgeCore | Operational 2025 |
| Microsoft Fairwater B1 (MKE03) | 338 MW | Racine, WI | Microsoft | Operational 2026 |
| Colossus 1 | 300 MW | Shelby County, TN | xAI | Operational 2025 |
| Stream Data Centers San Antonio III–VII | 280 MW | Bexar County, TX | Stream Data Centers | Operational 2025 |
Under construction
The largest sites being built now
Gigawatt-scale projects already in the ground.
| Facility | Scale | Location | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fermi America Amarillo Campus | 11 GW | Amarillo, TX | Fermi America |
| Project Jade | 10 GW | Cheyenne / Laramie County, WY | Crusoe and Tallgrass Energy |
| Meta Hyperion | 5 GW | Richland Parish, LA | Meta |
| Galaxy Helios Campus | 1,600 MW | Dickens County, TX | Galaxy Digital |
On the drawing board
Major planned expansions
The largest announced new builds and expansions.
| Facility | Scale | Location | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creekstone Delta Gigasite | 9,700 MW | Millard County, UT | Creekstone Energy |
| SB Energy PORTS Technology Campus, Phase 2 | 9,200 MW | Pike County, OH | SB Energy |
| New Era Energy Lea Data Center | 7,000 MW | Lea County, NM | New Era Energy |
| Nscale Monarch Compute Campus, Phase 2 | 6,000 MW | Mason County, WV | Nscale |
| OpenAI Stargate Effingham County | 3,200 MW | Springfield, GA | OpenAI |
| Microsoft Pecos Campus | 2,000 MW | Pecos, TX | Microsoft |
Where the work is moving
Fastest-growing data-center markets
Northern Virginia is still the country’s largest data-center market. New projects are growing fastest in these cities.
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Las Vegas / Reno, NV
953% planned capacity surge
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Salt Lake City, UT
699% projected capacity growth
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Phoenix, AZ
553% expansion for hyperscale AI
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Atlanta, GA
484% targeted operational increase
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Dallas–Fort Worth, TX
Primary U.S. data-center market
Take the city next to the build
See which listings already show hyperscale data-center demand.
Construction Bonds or Full Surety for that city. The data center is why the contractors will need a bond. The listing is how your agency is there when they search. Closings through Escrow.com.