Data centers and water
Data Center Water Use in Davidson County, TN
Davidson County, Tennessee has 10 mapped data center facilities, including EdgeConneX, BNYM, carrying about 59 MW of estimated power load.
Water pressure for new demandHow hard a large new water user, like a data center, would press on this county's water. It blends recent drinking-water compliance, drought, and existing industrial demand. Higher pressure means new demand competes harder with current uses. It is not a judgment about whether one should be built.
Low water pressure
Davidson County has no health violations in the last 5 years, abnormally dry conditions, moderate existing industrial water demand.
- Mapped facilities
- 10
- EPA + OpenStreetMap layers
- Estimated power load
- 59 MW
- IM3 Atlas capacity estimate
- Permitted discharge
- Not reported
- Clean Water Act permit fields
- DCWSI national rank
- #8
- of 318 scored counties
The operators
How many data centers are in Davidson County?
10 facilities are mapped to Davidson County, Tennessee across the EPA and OpenStreetMap layers, run by operators including EdgeConneX, BNYM. Counts reflect mapped footprint, not an operator's total fleet.
- EPA ECHO
EDGECONNEX NASHVILLE HOLDINGS, LLC
EdgeConneX · NASHVILLE, TN
- EPA ECHO
H5 FUND VII, LLC
NASHVILLE, TN
- OpenStreetMap
HCA Information Technology & Services Data Center
47
- EPA ECHO
HCA IT&S
ANTIOCH, TN
- OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap data center 533842335
47
- OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap data center 819981888
47
- OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap data center 894425613
BNYM · 47
- EPA ECHO
OPTUM
NASHVILLE, TN
- OpenStreetMap
Tennessee Processing Center LLC
47
- OpenStreetMap
Verizon Wireless
47
Supply versus demand
How much water do Davidson County data centers use?
Exact facility water draw is rarely public. As a screening proxy we compare the Clean Water Act permitted discharge mapped to these facilities against the county's entire industrial water baseline from the USGS 2020 series.
No Clean Water Act permitted discharge is reported for the mapped facilities in Davidson County. The figures below show the county's industrial water baseline for context.
- Mapped facility discharge
- Not reported
- County industrial baseline
- 41.5 Mgal/day
Model a build
Can Davidson County support more data centers?
On the water-pressure scale, Davidson County sits at 12, below the national median, so new large-load demand has more slack here than in most counties. Size a hypothetical build to see the daily draw against the county industrial baseline.
Data Center Water Budget Calculator
Estimate daily water use for a hypothetical facility in Davidson County.
Your facility would use 1.9% of this county's existing industrial water baseline — well within sustainable range.
Based on USGS 2020 water-use data and EPA-standard cooling intensity constants. Not a substitute for site-specific water rights analysis.
In context
How does Davidson County compare nationally?
- DCWSI build-out rank
- #8
- of 318 counties with a stress score
- Water pressure vs median
- -7
- national median is 19 of 100
- Share of mapped load
- 0.0%
- of 166.02 GW mapped nationally
Davidson County is one of 330 US counties with mapped data centers. See the full ranking and the interactive map in the national atlas.
Facility data combines EPA ECHO, EPA Clean Water Act permits, OpenStreetMap, and the IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas (DOE/PNNL), geocoded to county FIPS. Capacity and water baselines come from IM3 and USGS 2020 water-use data. These are county-level screening figures, not a facility-level water-use audit. Read the full methodology.