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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...

Pausing new Birmingham, Alabama data centers helps plan smarter AI growth

Pausing new Birmingham, Alabama data centers helps plan smarter AI growth

Melissa Palmer
December 30, 2025

Birmingham is considering a 270-day pause on new data center builds, expansions, and establishments within city limits. This comes right...

Local controls tighten on water‑intensive AI data centers in West Virginia

Local controls tighten on water‑intensive AI data centers in West Virginia

Melissa Palmer
December 29, 2025

West Virginia is reworking its microgrids and data center law after realizing the fast‑track incentives overrode local zoning, noise, and...

AI data centers reshape Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania while utilities, rules lag behind

AI data centers reshape Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania while utilities, rules lag behind

Melissa Palmer
December 29, 2025

Lehigh Valley is moving from scattered small data centers to true hyperscale, with two proposals totaling over 7.7 million square...

Vast Augusta, Georgia data center reshapes power use, water demand, neighborhood buffer

Vast Augusta, Georgia data center reshapes power use, water demand, neighborhood buffer

Melissa Palmer
December 29, 2025

A $2 billion data center campus in Augusta is back on the radar, now expanded to six two-story buildings totaling...

AI data centers shift energy, water, and climate burdens onto Florida communities

AI data centers shift energy, water, and climate burdens onto Florida communities

Melissa Palmer
December 29, 2025

AI data centers from Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon are driving massive new power demand, with wholesale electricity prices in...

Data center investments anchor Florida jobs while protecting household energy costs

Data center investments anchor Florida jobs while protecting household energy costs

Melissa Palmer
December 29, 2025

AI leadership is framed as an infrastructure race, where Florida’s role depends on building out data centers, transmission, and dependable...

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