Data Center

Balancing data center growth with Atlanta’s tightening water constraints

Balancing data center growth with Atlanta’s tightening water constraints

Melissa Palmer
January 27, 2026

Metro Atlanta, Georgia’s data center boom is now a hard constraint problem around finite water, with facilities drawing up to...

Mounting Phoenix, Arizona hurdles reshape evaluation of AI data center sites

Mounting Phoenix, Arizona hurdles reshape evaluation of AI data center sites

Melissa Palmer
January 27, 2026

Local pushback is hardening against large AI data centers in the Phoenix metro, with Chandler already killing a $2.5 billion,...

Toxic legacy site becomes risky hyperscale data center gamble for Alabama

Toxic legacy site becomes risky hyperscale data center gamble for Alabama

Melissa Palmer
January 27, 2026

Childersburg just rezoned a contaminated former Manhattan Project munitions site to allow a 500 MW, $6 billion hyperscale data center,...

Balancing AI data center growth, labor concerns, and grid impacts in Wisconsin

Balancing AI data center growth, labor concerns, and grid impacts in Wisconsin

Melissa Palmer
January 26, 2026

Wisconsin’s Assembly Bill 840 tightens rules on new data centers by forcing closed-loop cooling, mandatory water reporting to the DNR,...

Secrecy around massive Wisconsin data centers reshapes communities before input

Secrecy around massive Wisconsin data centers reshapes communities before input

Melissa Palmer
January 26, 2026

Meta, OpenAI/Oracle/Vantage, Microsoft and QTS are driving a $57 billion wave of hyperscale data center builds across Wisconsin, with single...

Pennsylvania Cooling water discharge request shows how data centers strain rivers

Pennsylvania Cooling water discharge request shows how data centers strain rivers

Melissa Palmer
January 26, 2026

Amazon Data Services wants state approval to discharge used cooling water from its Luzerne County data center into the Susquehanna...

Weighing AI data center tradeoffs before Pekin, Illinois town hall discussion

Weighing AI data center tradeoffs before Pekin, Illinois town hall discussion

Melissa Palmer
January 26, 2026

Pekin, Illinois is weighing a data center on a 1,000‑acre site intended to become a technology park, but local opposition...

Georgia moves to curb AI data centers over rising power costs

Georgia moves to curb AI data centers over rising power costs

Melissa Palmer
January 26, 2026

Georgia is moving to become the first state with a statewide moratorium on new data centers, with similar bills emerging...

Wisconsin data center secrecy limits reshape how AI builds are planned

Wisconsin data center secrecy limits reshape how AI builds are planned

Melissa Palmer
January 23, 2026

Wisconsin Republicans are pushing a bill to stop data center developers from using agreements that hide project details from the...

Water reporting rules for Utah data centers in play

Water reporting rules for Utah data centers in play

Melissa Palmer
January 23, 2026

Utah is moving to require data centers 10,000 square feet and up to publicly report water use, with unanimous committee...

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