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Local Florida opposition forces costly delay for high-density AI data center

Local Florida opposition forces costly delay for high-density AI data center

Melissa Palmer
December 23, 2025

Residents in Arden are filing a formal appeal that will freeze approval of the proposed Project Tango data center for...

NAACP: AI Data Centers Put Community Health and Resources at Risk

NAACP: AI Data Centers Put Community Health and Resources at Risk

Melissa Palmer
December 23, 2025

The NAACP’s “Stop Dirty Data” summit drew a direct line between AI data centers and environmental justice, focusing on how...

AI data center boom shifts grid upgrade costs onto regular customers says senators

AI data center boom shifts grid upgrade costs onto regular customers says senators

Melissa Palmer
December 22, 2025

US senators are calling out major AI and cloud vendors for driving city-scale power demand while letting residential and small...

Local moratoriums reshape planning and buildouts of AI data centers

Local moratoriums reshape planning and buildouts of AI data centers

Melissa Palmer
December 22, 2025

AI data center buildout is triggering bipartisan, citizen-led demands for local and national moratoriums, with Sanders and 230+ groups explicitly...

Georgia Data center power deal shifts long‑term costs and risks onto customers

Georgia Data center power deal shifts long‑term costs and risks onto customers

Melissa Palmer
December 22, 2025

Georgia’s PSC just approved a $16 billion, ~10 GW grid expansion largely to serve data centers, locking in a huge...

Michigan Regulators approve conditional fast-track power deal for massive AI data center

Michigan Regulators approve conditional fast-track power deal for massive AI data center

Melissa Palmer
December 22, 2025

Michigan regulators just greenlit fast-track power contracts for an OpenAI/Oracle-linked data center that will pull 1.4 GW, forcing DTE to...

Microsoft pause at Cherry Valley, Illinois reshapes AI tracking

Microsoft pause at Cherry Valley, Illinois reshapes AI tracking

Melissa Palmer
December 22, 2025

Microsoft spent $32.3 million on 340 acres in Boone County for a new data center site but has effectively hit...

Local zoning shift lets hyperscale data centers into Port Wentworth, Georgia

Local zoning shift lets hyperscale data centers into Port Wentworth, Georgia

Melissa Palmer
December 22, 2025

Major AI players (Google, Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon) are actively scouting Port Wentworth for new data centers, signaling real GPU...

Mission-critical Airbus workloads move to European sovereign cloud under EU control

Mission-critical Airbus workloads move to European sovereign cloud under EU control

Melissa Palmer
December 22, 2025

Airbus is preparing a major tender to move mission-critical workloads off US hyperscalers and onto a European sovereign cloud. The...

Saline, Michigan zoning gaps leave little choice on OpenAI data center

Saline, Michigan zoning gaps leave little choice on OpenAI data center

Melissa Palmer
December 20, 2025

OpenAI and Oracle are moving ahead with a 2.2M-square-foot hyperscale data center in rural Saline Township after officials settled a...

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