Sacramento County, California
DataCentersExposed tracks 5 AI data centers in Sacramento County, California — 4 operating and 1 in the pipeline, drawing 20 MW of reported power demand, led by NTT Global Data Centers. Its transparent data-center risk score is 0/100.
Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated May 29, 2026
- Project exposure · 16
- Power demand · 0
- Water draw · n/a
- Land footprint · n/a
What's happening in Sacramento County
Facilities here with disclosed capacity draw 20 MW from the local grid. Data-center load on this scale is the single biggest driver of recent capacity-market price increases — costs that flow through to every ratepayer in the service territory, not just the operators.
NTT Global Data Centers has the largest presence in Sacramento County. We resolve project codenames and shell LLCs back to the corporate parent wherever the public record allows, so the table below names who is actually behind each site.
Below: every tracked facility in the county, the active state legislation that names it or its county, and local news. Commissioner vote records arrive in a later release; the placeholders show where that accountability data will land.
2035 Buildout Outlook
Under the model's moderate-growth scenario (5%/yr annual load growth), PNNL's IM3 model sites about 15 standardized 36 MW campuses in Sacramento County by 2035 — roughly 540 MW of new electricity demand and ~522 M gal/yr of cooling water. Under the higher-growth scenario (15%/yr) that climbs to 67 campuses (2.4 GW). For scale, we currently track 5 real data centers in Sacramento County (20 MW of reported power).
- Low growth10360 MW · ~348 M gal/yr cooling water
- Moderate growth15540 MW · ~522 M gal/yr cooling water
- High growth421.5 GW · ~1.5 billion gal/yr cooling water
- Higher growth672.4 GW · ~2.3 billion gal/yr cooling water
The model assigns ~100% of these campuses' cooling to evaporative water cooling in Sacramento County (the rest to mechanical/air cooling), a split it derives from local water stress and wet-bulb temperature.
These are modeled candidate sites, not announced or permitted facilities. PNNL's IM3 model places identical 36 MW unit-campuses at feasible locations under each scenario — it shows where demand could concentrate, never a specific parcel. Figures use a market-gravity weight of 50. How the model works.
Every tracked facility
| Facility | Operator | Status | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prime Data Centers Sacramento SMF02 Sacramento | Prime Data Centers | Under construction | 18 |
| Edgeconnex Data Center Rancho Cordova | EdgeConneX, Inc. | 2 | |
| QTS Sacramento Sacramento | QTS Realty Trust, LLC | — | |
| RagingWire CA2 Sacramento | NTT Global Data Centers | — | |
| RagingWire CA3 Sacramento | NTT Global Data Centers | — |
County commissioners
How the Sacramento County board votes on each data-center matter — the rezonings, the abatements, the water permits — is built from public-meeting minutes and roll-call records. Know of a vote we should be tracking? Tell us.