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Energy is the #1 bottleneck of the AI buildout — but a real data center also needs land, grid and delivery, not just an announcement. LOADSTAR is the public, neutral index that fuses those signals into one number (the Compute Formation Index, method fully open) and ranks every US region by how much AI compute-supply is actually forming — measured activity, not announcements. Cross-referenced against official sources, sealed in a dated ledger.

The LOADSTAR number — live, free to cite
as of 2026-08-31
~15% of the queue is machine-verifiable as signed · 145.1 of 958.5 GW (a floor — from 4 of 7 queues that publish comparable status)
ERCOT 307→n/a* GWMISO 242→n/a* GWSPP 150→61 GWPJM 149→17 GWCAISO 74→60 GW
Arrow = GW verified as carrying an executed agreement, read from each queue’s status field. n/a* = read but not comparable: ERCOT (connect-and-manage — signed projects leave the active list) and MISO (status field on only a sliver of rows). Where 0: no machine-readable field at all (unverified, not confirmed absent). Per-queue detail at /verify.
U.S. ISO GENERATION interconnection queues (≥50 MW) vs. verified executed-agreement volume (a floor) — descriptive of today, not a forecast. cite it →
Track record, accruing496 withdrawal predictions live — sealed, dated, hash-anchored; they resolve on their own from Dec 2026.the dated record →
View as:🏛️ Regulator📰 Journalist⚡ Utility / grid📈 Investor
Updated Sep 01, 2026 · automatic
Radical honesty: the CFI measures TODAY's signal — it doesn't promise a future hit. Predictions go public only once the hit is validated. Preliminary signal (7 outcomes, in-sample, not yet validated): top-CFI regions saw 1.33× the real-phase outcome signals (keyword-matched) of other regions over the 6-month horizon.
⚡ the energy map · 🔒 sealed ledger · ⚓ externally timestamped · 🔬 open methodology · 📰 press / cite — don't trust, verify

🔴 hot · 🟠 heating · 🟡 emerging · 🔵 cool — click a region for its terminal. Pulse = CFI ≥ 70.

#
Region
CFI
Index
Queue / trend
1
Seattle MetroWashington · existing cluster
85
54,289 MW▲ accelerating
2
Phoenix MetroArizona · existing cluster
81
7,400 MW▲ accelerating
3
KansasKansas
79
28,336 MW▲ accelerating
4
Silicon ValleyCalifornia · existing cluster
79
57,918 MW– stable
5
West Texas / AbileneTexas
78
10,378 MW▲ accelerating
6
Columbus MetroOhio · existing cluster
77
22,259 MW– stable
7
New MexicoNew Mexico
72
7,287 MW▲ accelerating
8
Northern VirginiaVirginia · existing cluster
71
2,662 MW– stable
9
IowaIowa
67
15,215 MW▼ cooling
10
MichiganMichigan
62
44,290 MW– stable
11
Dallas-Fort WorthTexas · existing cluster
59
19,347 MW▼ cooling
12
North CarolinaNorth Carolina
57
2,861 MW– stable
13
New York / New Jersey MetroNew Jersey · existing cluster
55
6,376 MW▲ accelerating
14
FloridaFlorida
51
22,915 MW▼ cooling
15
MinnesotaMinnesota
50
18,591 MW▼ cooling
16
Atlanta MetroGeorgia · existing cluster
47
37,898 MW▼ cooling
17
Chicago MetroIllinois · existing cluster
46
66,414 MW▼ cooling
18
WisconsinWisconsin
43
14,422 MW▼ cooling
19
Kansas CityMissouri
43
17,361 MW▼ cooling
20
PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
43
7,345 MW▼ cooling

CFI = 35% formation (multi-source signal) + 30% energy (interconnection queue) + 20% momentum + 15% corroboration. 0–100. Methodology open on purpose — a black box never becomes the reference.

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