Melissa Palmer

Neighborhood unease grows as I weigh secretive Festus, Missouri data center impacts

Neighborhood unease grows as I weigh secretive Festus, Missouri data center impacts

Melissa Palmer
January 13, 2026

The Festus, Missouri fight over a proposed data center shows how fast AI-era infrastructure is colliding with residential communities. Residents...

Roswell, Georgia’s data center moratorium signals tighter local AI infrastructure controls

Roswell, Georgia’s data center moratorium signals tighter local AI infrastructure controls

Melissa Palmer
January 13, 2026

Roswell, Georgia just put a 90-day emergency halt on new data center projects while it rewrites the rules. The city...

Azure becomes default runway for NVIDIA Rubin‑scale AI deployments

Azure becomes default runway for NVIDIA Rubin‑scale AI deployments

Melissa Palmer
January 12, 2026

Microsoft positions Azure as the default runway for NVIDIA Rubin-scale AI Microsoft announced that Azure data centers are already engineered...

Balancing Wisconsin data center growth with local energy and water concerns

Balancing Wisconsin data center growth with local energy and water concerns

Melissa Palmer
January 12, 2026

Wisconsin Republican legislators are signaling they want to grow data centers while preempting local backlash around land, water, and power....

Oklahoma bill shifts grid upgrade costs from residents to data centers

Oklahoma bill shifts grid upgrade costs from residents to data centers

Melissa Palmer
January 12, 2026

Oklahoma’s HB 2992 is a placeholder bill aimed at forcing large data centers, including AI builds, to pay directly for...

Historic land faces data center rezoning in North Carolina

Historic land faces data center rezoning in North Carolina

Melissa Palmer
January 12, 2026

A rezoning vote in Stokes County, NC will decide whether historic Saura and plantation land becomes a large, privately developed...

Nebius Balancing massive AI data center plans with Independence, Missouri community concerns

Nebius Balancing massive AI data center plans with Independence, Missouri community concerns

Melissa Palmer
January 12, 2026

Nebius, a Dutch AI company, wants to build a 2.5 million square foot data center on 400 acres in Independence,...

Arkansas data center campus targets hyperscale AI growth

Arkansas data center campus targets hyperscale AI growth

Melissa Palmer
January 12, 2026

AVAIO Digital is planning a 760-acre data center campus near Little Rock with a first-phase spend of $6 billion and...

Massive xAI data center investment reshapes AI in Mississippi

Massive xAI data center investment reshapes AI in Mississippi

Melissa Palmer
January 9, 2026

xAI Drops $20B on Mississippi Data Center, Targets 2 GW of AI Compute xAI is investing over $20 billion to...

Quiet land grab signals secretive AI data center push in Wisconsin

Quiet land grab signals secretive AI data center push in Wisconsin

Melissa Palmer
January 9, 2026

Developers using a Delaware LLC tied to Cloverleaf Infrastructure are quietly offering up to $120,000 per acre for rural land...

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