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Balancing local jobs with environmental risks of proposed data center in Greene County, Pennsylvania

Balancing local jobs with environmental risks of proposed data center in Greene County, Pennsylvania

Melissa Palmer
January 16, 2026

Project Hummingbird proposes a hyperscale AI data center on 1,400 acres of a former coal mine in Greene County, Pennsylvania,...

Revised data center math slashes promised Georgia jobs and local payoff

Revised data center math slashes promised Georgia jobs and local payoff

Melissa Palmer
January 16, 2026

Georgia’s own auditors just cut their estimate of data center economic impact to less than one-third of what they originally...

AI data center plans reshape Wyoming’s energy system and climate risks

AI data center plans reshape Wyoming’s energy system and climate risks

Melissa Palmer
January 14, 2026

Wyoming just approved Crusoe’s Project Jade, a 1.8 GW AI data center campus that could scale to 10 GW, making...

Apex, North Carolina Data center plan strains our town’s power, water, and planning priorities

Apex, North Carolina Data center plan strains our town’s power, water, and planning priorities

Melissa Palmer
January 14, 2026

Apex is facing a 190-acre data center proposal that would host four AI and cloud computing buildings, pushing hyperscale-style infrastructure...

Rising data center demand reshapes Wisconsin’s power and water choices

Rising data center demand reshapes Wisconsin’s power and water choices

Melissa Palmer
January 13, 2026

Wisconsin’s data center buildout is reversing decades of declining electricity demand, with utilities projecting peak load to rise from 14.6...

Balancing Wisconsin data center growth with local energy and water concerns

Balancing Wisconsin data center growth with local energy and water concerns

Melissa Palmer
January 12, 2026

Wisconsin Republican legislators are signaling they want to grow data centers while preempting local backlash around land, water, and power....

Oklahoma bill shifts grid upgrade costs from residents to data centers

Oklahoma bill shifts grid upgrade costs from residents to data centers

Melissa Palmer
January 12, 2026

Oklahoma’s HB 2992 is a placeholder bill aimed at forcing large data centers, including AI builds, to pay directly for...

Historic land faces data center rezoning in North Carolina

Historic land faces data center rezoning in North Carolina

Melissa Palmer
January 12, 2026

A rezoning vote in Stokes County, NC will decide whether historic Saura and plantation land becomes a large, privately developed...

Nebius Balancing massive AI data center plans with Independence, Missouri community concerns

Nebius Balancing massive AI data center plans with Independence, Missouri community concerns

Melissa Palmer
January 12, 2026

Nebius, a Dutch AI company, wants to build a 2.5 million square foot data center on 400 acres in Independence,...

Arkansas data center campus targets hyperscale AI growth

Arkansas data center campus targets hyperscale AI growth

Melissa Palmer
January 12, 2026

AVAIO Digital is planning a 760-acre data center campus near Little Rock with a first-phase spend of $6 billion and...

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