Melissa Palmer
Data CenterUnited States
NAACP: AI Data Centers Put Community Health and Resources at Risk
The NAACP’s “Stop Dirty Data” summit drew a direct line between AI data centers and environmental justice, focusing on how...
Constellation WireData CenterPowerUnited States
AI data center boom shifts grid upgrade costs onto regular customers says senators
US senators are calling out major AI and cloud vendors for driving city-scale power demand while letting residential and small...
Data CenterUnited States
Local moratoriums reshape planning and buildouts of AI data centers
AI data center buildout is triggering bipartisan, citizen-led demands for local and national moratoriums, with Sanders and 230+ groups explicitly...
Constellation WireData CenterGeorgiaPower
Georgia Data center power deal shifts long‑term costs and risks onto customers
Georgia’s PSC just approved a $16 billion, ~10 GW grid expansion largely to serve data centers, locking in a huge...
Constellation WireData CenterMichiganOpenAIOraclePower
Michigan Regulators approve conditional fast-track power deal for massive AI data center
Michigan regulators just greenlit fast-track power contracts for an OpenAI/Oracle-linked data center that will pull 1.4 GW, forcing DTE to...
Constellation WireData CenterIlliniosMicrosoft
Microsoft pause at Cherry Valley, Illinois reshapes AI tracking
Microsoft spent $32.3 million on 340 acres in Boone County for a new data center site but has effectively hit...
Constellation WireData CenterGeorgia
Local zoning shift lets hyperscale data centers into Port Wentworth, Georgia
Major AI players (Google, Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon) are actively scouting Port Wentworth for new data centers, signaling real GPU...
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Mission-critical Airbus workloads move to European sovereign cloud under EU control
Airbus is preparing a major tender to move mission-critical workloads off US hyperscalers and onto a European sovereign cloud. The...
UncategorizedData CenterMichiganOpenAIOracle
Saline, Michigan zoning gaps leave little choice on OpenAI data center
OpenAI and Oracle are moving ahead with a 2.2M-square-foot hyperscale data center in rural Saline Township after officials settled a...
Constellation WireData CenterMaryland
Investor pressure boosts long-term Frederick, Maryland data center growth, not exit
Rowan Digital Infrastructure is publicly reaffirming a long-term commitment to Frederick County after a report suggested it might sell the...
