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Secrecy Around Virginia Google Data Center Deal Erodes Trust in Officials
Google’s Botetourt County, Virginia data center deal is drawing backlash because residents feel it was negotiated and approved in secrecy,...
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OpenAI’s campuses now demand industrial-scale power, water, and political buy-in
OpenAI’s Stargate bets big on “community-first” AI campuses across the U.S. OpenAI outlined its “Stargate Community” strategy for massive U.S....
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Massive Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin campus reshapes where AI data centers cluster
Microsoft wants approval for 15 massive data centers on the former Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant, on top of two...
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Massive AI data center reshapes Allegheny County, Pennsylvania despite objections
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania just approved a 565,000-square-foot hyperscale data center on a former coal plant site that could draw as...
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Data center committee shapes Oregon’s AI growth, grid and water protections
Oregon is standing up a Data Center Advisory Committee to rein in where and how new GPU-heavy data and AI...
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Moratorium on Michigan data centers reshapes AI buildout assumptions
Michigan’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Leonard wants a one-year moratorium on new data centers and an end to existing tax...
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Illinois resistance to nearby data center reshapes AI buildout plans
Naperville, Illinois killed a 200,000-square-foot data center project in a 6–1 vote after heavy neighborhood pushback. The site would have...
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Colorado weighs long tax breaks against AI data center risks
Colorado is again pushing a 20-year state sales and use tax exemption for large data center builds, with HB 1030...
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Wisconsin Community rules may limit data center scale, resources, and approvals
Kaukauna, Wisconsin is moving to explicitly regulate future data centers before any hyperscaler or colo shows up. The proposed rules...
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Virginia Data center zoning appeal tests how risk and growth are weighed
Campbell County, Virginia is holding a fact-based hearing on whether to uphold zoning administrator approval for a 57-acre heavy industrial...
