Tennessee has 60 data centers, and more than a third of them are located in the greater Nashville area.
Nashville has 13 facilities operational or under construction within metro limits. Many of these data centers, which are physical buildings that manage massive amounts of digital data, are located in or near downtown and the Cumberland River.
Franklin, Brentwood, Berry Hill and Murfreesboro also collectively hold a handful, and Gallatin, a town just 30 miles northeast of Nashville, has seven data centers, primarily run by Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram…