Melissa Palmer

Massive Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin campus reshapes where AI data centers cluster

Massive Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin campus reshapes where AI data centers cluster

Melissa Palmer
January 21, 2026

Microsoft wants approval for 15 massive data centers on the former Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant, on top of two...

Massive AI data center reshapes Allegheny County, Pennsylvania despite objections

Massive AI data center reshapes Allegheny County, Pennsylvania despite objections

Melissa Palmer
January 21, 2026

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania just approved a 565,000-square-foot hyperscale data center on a former coal plant site that could draw as...

Data center committee shapes Oregon’s AI growth, grid and water protections

Data center committee shapes Oregon’s AI growth, grid and water protections

Melissa Palmer
January 21, 2026

Oregon is standing up a Data Center Advisory Committee to rein in where and how new GPU-heavy data and AI...

Moratorium on Michigan data centers reshapes AI buildout assumptions

Moratorium on Michigan data centers reshapes AI buildout assumptions

Melissa Palmer
January 21, 2026

Michigan’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Leonard wants a one-year moratorium on new data centers and an end to existing tax...

Illinois resistance to nearby data center reshapes AI buildout plans

Illinois resistance to nearby data center reshapes AI buildout plans

Melissa Palmer
January 21, 2026

Naperville, Illinois killed a 200,000-square-foot data center project in a 6–1 vote after heavy neighborhood pushback. The site would have...

Colorado weighs long tax breaks against AI data center risks

Colorado weighs long tax breaks against AI data center risks

Melissa Palmer
January 21, 2026

Colorado is again pushing a 20-year state sales and use tax exemption for large data center builds, with HB 1030...

Wisconsin Community rules may limit data center scale, resources, and approvals

Wisconsin Community rules may limit data center scale, resources, and approvals

Melissa Palmer
January 20, 2026

Kaukauna, Wisconsin is moving to explicitly regulate future data centers before any hyperscaler or colo shows up. The proposed rules...

Virginia Data center zoning appeal tests how risk and growth are weighed

Virginia Data center zoning appeal tests how risk and growth are weighed

Melissa Palmer
January 20, 2026

Campbell County, Virginia is holding a fact-based hearing on whether to uphold zoning administrator approval for a 57-acre heavy industrial...

Oklahoma pushback over AI data center shows zoning risk reshaping projects

Oklahoma pushback over AI data center shows zoning risk reshaping projects

Melissa Palmer
January 20, 2026

Coweta, Oklahoma’s planning commission just recommended denying rezoning for a 400 MW data center on 200+ acres of agricultural land,...

Community left guessing as data center plans lack basic details

Community left guessing as data center plans lack basic details

Melissa Palmer
January 20, 2026

Strata Expanse is planning an AI data center near Hanging Rock, Ohio, but four weeks in, they still have not...

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