Melissa Palmer

AI data center dream in Westfield, Massachusetts quietly collapses over power, permits

AI data center dream in Westfield, Massachusetts quietly collapses over power, permits

Melissa Palmer
January 2, 2026

Servistar pitched a 2.7 million square foot hyperscale data center in Westfield that would have pulled 4–5x the city’s total...

Quiet early talks over Jones County data center reshape planning decisions

Quiet early talks over Jones County data center reshape planning decisions

Melissa Palmer
January 2, 2026

Local officials were talking with a prospective data center developer in Jones County months before any formal application surfaced. That...

Analysis of Events Leading Up to Pima County’s Approval of Project Blue Data Center

Analysis of Events Leading Up to Pima County’s Approval of Project Blue Data Center

Melissa Palmer
December 31, 2025

The Project Blue data center, a proposed 290-acre facility developed by Beale Infrastructure on unincorporated land near the Pima County...

San Angelo, Texas weighs major data center rezoning near neighborhood, infrastructure impacts

San Angelo, Texas weighs major data center rezoning near neighborhood, infrastructure impacts

Melissa Palmer
December 30, 2025

San Angelo is courting Skybox Data Centers for a ~350-acre hyperscale-capable site, signaling another small city positioning itself in the...

Data center boom reshapes Aiken County, South Carolina’s future

Data center boom reshapes Aiken County, South Carolina’s future

Melissa Palmer
December 30, 2025

Meta is putting more than $800 million into a large data center in Aiken County’s Sage Mill Industrial Park, scheduled...

Ashville, Ohio moratorium on new data centers signals rising local resistance

Ashville, Ohio moratorium on new data centers signals rising local resistance

Melissa Palmer
December 30, 2025

Ashville, Ohio just imposed a 180-day moratorium on new data center zoning, directly targeting expansion plans like the EdgeConneX campus....

Terrible Mississippi Data center deal shows how deep tax breaks can backfire locally

Terrible Mississippi Data center deal shows how deep tax breaks can backfire locally

Melissa Palmer
December 30, 2025

The Compass Datacenters hyperscale campus in Meridian, Mississippi, got tagged as 2025’s “Worst Economic Development Deal of the Year” because...

Residents question massive data center plans reshaping northwest Louisiana communities

Residents question massive data center plans reshaping northwest Louisiana communities

Melissa Palmer
December 30, 2025

A Denver-backed entity is quietly assembling over 1,700 acres across Caddo and Bossier Parishes, signaling a potential multi-site data center...

Big Tech lobbying leaves California data center rules mostly study and delay

Big Tech lobbying leaves California data center rules mostly study and delay

Melissa Palmer
December 30, 2025

California’s attempt to make AI data centers pay more of their true power costs collapsed into a weak law that...

Pima County, Arizona backs massive data center after Amazon Walks

Pima County, Arizona backs massive data center after Amazon Walks

Melissa Palmer
December 30, 2025

Pima County just greenlit a 290-acre data center project, Project Blue, even after Amazon walked away and no replacement hyperscaler...

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