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Constellation WireData CenterSouth Dakota
South Dakota Data center bill shifts AI costs and control away from taxpayers
South Dakota’s SB 135 “Data Center Bill of Rights” would block tax breaks for data centers and shift full power...
Constellation WireData CenterOklahoma
Data center pause in Oklahoma reshapes AI buildouts – SB 1488
Oklahoma’s SB 1488 would pause new data centers for three years while regulators study long-term impacts on infrastructure, utilities, and...
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Lowell, Michigan Residents challenge Microsoft’s AI data center plan
Residents in Lowell, Michigan are pushing back hard on a proposed Microsoft data center that would likely support AI workloads,...
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Packed city hall shows deep local doubts about Pekin, Illinois data center
Pekin, Illinois residents are pushing back on a proposed data center, packing city hall even without the project on the...
Constellation WireData CenterGeorgia
Balancing data center growth with Atlanta’s tightening water constraints
Metro Atlanta, Georgia’s data center boom is now a hard constraint problem around finite water, with facilities drawing up to...
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Mounting Phoenix, Arizona hurdles reshape evaluation of AI data center sites
Local pushback is hardening against large AI data centers in the Phoenix metro, with Chandler already killing a $2.5 billion,...
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...
