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Constellation WireAlabamaData Center
Toxic legacy site becomes risky hyperscale data center gamble for Alabama
Childersburg just rezoned a contaminated former Manhattan Project munitions site to allow a 500 MW, $6 billion hyperscale data center,...
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Microsoft Maia 200 targets GPU-free, hyperscale AI inference
Microsoft announced Maia 200, a first‑party AI inference accelerator built on TSMC 3 nm, optimized for low‑precision LLM inference and...
Constellation WireData CenterWisconsin
Balancing AI data center growth, labor concerns, and grid impacts in Wisconsin
Wisconsin’s Assembly Bill 840 tightens rules on new data centers by forcing closed-loop cooling, mandatory water reporting to the DNR,...
Data CenterConstellation WireWisconsin
Secrecy around massive Wisconsin data centers reshapes communities before input
Meta, OpenAI/Oracle/Vantage, Microsoft and QTS are driving a $57 billion wave of hyperscale data center builds across Wisconsin, with single...
Constellation WireData CenterPennsylvania
Pennsylvania Cooling water discharge request shows how data centers strain rivers
Amazon Data Services wants state approval to discharge used cooling water from its Luzerne County data center into the Susquehanna...
Constellation WireData CenterIllinios
Weighing AI data center tradeoffs before Pekin, Illinois town hall discussion
Pekin, Illinois is weighing a data center on a 1,000‑acre site intended to become a technology park, but local opposition...
Constellation WireData CenterGeorgia
Georgia moves to curb AI data centers over rising power costs
Georgia is moving to become the first state with a statewide moratorium on new data centers, with similar bills emerging...
Constellation WireData CenterWisconsin
Wisconsin data center secrecy limits reshape how AI builds are planned
Wisconsin Republicans are pushing a bill to stop data center developers from using agreements that hide project details from the...
Data CenterConstellation WireUtah
Water reporting rules for Utah data centers in play
Utah is moving to require data centers 10,000 square feet and up to publicly report water use, with unanimous committee...
Data CenterConstellation WirePennsylvania
Pennsylvania farmer Turned Down Lucrative Data Center Deal to Permanently Preserve Farmland
Data center developers offered a Pennsylvania farmer over $15 million, or about $60,000 per acre, to convert two contiguous farms...
