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Douglas County

Mixed50.0— → stableComposite · JPAS75Completeness MediumCounty · Washington

Population 46,473 · Census Bureau Vintage-2025 estimate

Last scored Jul 13, 2026 · Data may be stale

Composite · JPAS tier readings

Power

Power90sourced

Power reads 90 of 100, sourced evidence. Power measures grid capacity, interconnection-queue depth, generation mix, retail price and substation density. Interconnection-queue depth is an estimated roll-up (EST); queue vintage PJM 2026-04-28, CAISO 2025-02-12.

Politics

Regulatory79sourced

Regulatory reads 79 of 100, sourced evidence. Regulatory measures air-quality designation under the Clean Air Act and commercial permitting activity. Regulatory is evidenced by air-quality designation and permitting activity; a county absent from EPA's nonattainment list reads as attainment. Attainment here is by absence of an EPA designation; EPA's county list is complete, so absence reads as attainment.

Community65sourced

Community reads 65 of 100, sourced evidence. Community measures enacted moratoria, pending legislation and farmland share as signals of local consent.

Incentives100estimated

Incentives reads 100 of 100, estimated evidence. Incentives measures state program baselines and disclosed awards for data-center and industrial projects.

Resources

Water79sourced

Water reads 79 of 100, sourced evidence. Water measures drinking-water system health, basin stress, streamflow and groundwater conditions.

Real estate / site73sourced

Real estate / site reads 73 of 100, sourced evidence. Real estate / site measures developable land share, convertible sites, substation hosting and permit velocity.

Environmental24sourced

Environmental reads 24 of 100, sourced evidence. Environmental measures FEMA hazard risk across riverine, coastal, wind, wildfire and related perils.

Labor65sourced

Labor reads 65 of 100, sourced evidence. Labor measures electrician depth, wages, unemployment and prevailing-wage floors in the county labor market.

Connectivity

Connectivity is not yet activated as a brief section; the Network tier reading is shown.

Network92sourced

Network reads 92 of 100, sourced evidence. Network measures broadband availability, fiber and middle-mile programs, and exchange-point proximity.

Density · JDS

Density · Minimal · 22 of 100

Data-center density is absent in this county (JDS Minimal, 22 of 100). County grain: computed from facilities, construction and permitted projects resolved to this county.

Trajectory · JTS

  • ModeledJTS-01 Trajectory rate of change — rising — Modeled — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
  • SpeculativeJTS-02 Inflection points — rising — Speculative — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
  • ModeledJTS-03 Trajectory volatility — rising — Modeled — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
  • SpeculativeJTS-04 Momentum — flat — Speculative — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
  • SpeculativeJTS-05 Forecast confidence decay — rising — Speculative — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.

Windows held: 2026. Direction and evidence label only; horizons extend only as data lands.

Water & Cooling Readiness

Water System Capacity & Utilization4.0/5 · DirectSRC
Water Service Provider Coverage & Type—DirectSRC
Basin Water Stress Index5/5 · Very favorableNo dataINF
Regulatory Compliance & Violation History5/5 · Very favorableDirectSRC
Reclaimed / Non-Potable Water Availability—No dataSRC
Streamflow Condition & Trend3/5 · NormalState-inheritedEST
Groundwater Drawdown Trend3/5 · NormalState-inheritedEST

Water posture inferred from statewide data; no jurisdiction-level water measurement is available.

Gauge data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey

Local Moratorium Activity

1 data-center moratorium instrument tracked · 0 currently in force · community-opposition signal: lapsed (inferred)

Replacedwa-douglas-county-2018 · enacted 2018-04-17

Data: Moratorium Nation (mjbommar) — CC-BY-4.0

How Douglas County leans — five dimensions, one composite

JPS Score Breakdown · Jurisdiction Posture Score

Per-dimension posture values are not yet published for this jurisdiction.

Infrastructure Map

Faraday's Read

Douglas County, Washington currently sits in a Mixed posture tier with a composite score of 50, though the underlying dimensional detail behind that score is not broken out in the record. The attribute-evidence roll-up shows a Good quality band (73.68) paired with Medium completeness (63.67), indicating that where evidence exists it is generally reliable, but meaningful gaps remain across the profile. Coverage is strongest in environmental, water, power, and network attributes, each populated with multiple sourced-confidence data points, while commercial and incentive attributes rest on only a single attribute apiece and carry weaker inferred or estimated confidence, so conclusions there should be treated cautiously. No data center facilities are currently recorded in the jurisdiction, and development density (jds) is unscored, leaving that dimension unknown rather than indicative of low activity. The forecast direction is listed as stable, but with an unscored confidence, so this should be read as a placeholder signal rather than a firm outlook.

Gilbert Faraday · Aug 4, 2026

Recent Signals

No signal events in the past 30 days for this jurisdiction.

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