Manufacturing Datacenter Sites
At a glance
Active or former manufacturing facilities. These sites usually have substantial electrical service, water, and skilled-trades labor pools already in place — strong fundamentals for retrofit-to-datacenter conversion.
How do manufacturing sites compare with other site types?
Manufacturing sites are the 6th-largest of 9 site types by count and the 4th-highest of 9 by average DC Readiness. Their 52.3 average is below the 53.0 average across all 147,272 sites. The average interconnection-queue wait in their markets, 3.5 yrs, is the shortest of 9. The manufacturing category is strongest on water, averaging 89.7 against a national average of 72.3; its weakest factor is power availability, at 30.0 versus 37.4 nationally.
Where are manufacturing datacenter sites located?
The five states with the most are Indiana (5,274, 69%), Mississippi (1,445, 19%) and Virginia (938, 12%). Manufacturing sites appear in 3 states. By grid region, MISO holds 59%, PJM holds 30% and SERC holds 11%.
Manufacturing sites by state
- Indiana5,274
- Mississippi1,445
- Virginia938
Average sub-score profile
Top 25 manufacturing datacenter sites
What do the top-scoring manufacturing sites have in common?
The top 25 manufacturing sites score between 56.9 and 57.8. 19 are in Indiana and 6 are in Mississippi. Their counties have a median of 13 fixed fiber broadband providers in FCC data. The median distance to the nearest internet exchange facility is 1 km. The median interconnection-queue wait in their markets is 3.0 years. 1 of the 4 with a mapped FEMA flood zone sits in a high-risk (A or V) zone.
Manufacturing site FAQ
What is a manufacturing datacenter site?
Active or former manufacturing facilities. These sites usually have substantial electrical service, water, and skilled-trades labor pools already in place — strong fundamentals for retrofit-to-datacenter conversion.
How many manufacturing datacenter sites are there?
GridCensus catalogs 7,657 manufacturing candidate sites nationwide, averaging 52.3/100 DC Readiness — 5% of all scored sites.
Which state has the most manufacturing datacenter sites?
Indiana leads with 5,274 manufacturing candidate sites, followed by Mississippi with 1,445.
What is the highest-scoring manufacturing datacenter site?
SEMISOUTH LABORATORIES, INC. (SEMICONDUCTOR AND RELATED DEVICE MANUFACTURING) in OKTIBBEHA, Mississippi has the highest DC Readiness Score of any manufacturing site, at 57.8/100.
How long is the interconnection queue for manufacturing sites?
Manufacturing candidate sites sit in markets with an average interconnection-queue wait of 3.5 yrs, the shortest of 9 site types.
Other datacenter site types
- Greenfield datacenter sites· 18,112 sites
- Industrial datacenter sites· 35,788 sites
- Substation-Adjacent datacenter sites· 38,820 sites
- Former Mine datacenter sites· 26,205 sites
- Federal Excess datacenter sites· 17,528 sites
- Shovel-Ready datacenter sites· 2,365 sites
- Brownfield datacenter sites· 771 sites
- Military BRAC datacenter sites· 26 sites
By grid region
Dataset updated . Screening estimates derived from public data sources.
About this data
Source: GridCensus composite of HIFLD transmission and substation data, EIA, FEMA National Risk Index, FCC broadband data, PeeringDB and ISO interconnection queues, as published November 12, 2026 — GridCensus refreshes it monthly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.
Cite as: GridCensus, “Manufacturing datacenter candidate sites”, https://gridcensus.com/site-types/manufacturing (data as of November 12, 2026).
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