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Pennsylvania Township deal steers 400 MW data center to grid power

Pennsylvania Township deal steers 400 MW data center to grid power

Melissa Palmer
January 2, 2026

Clifton Township is close to settling with the Project Gold developer, clearing the way for a massive data center campus...

AI data center dream in Westfield, Massachusetts quietly collapses over power, permits

AI data center dream in Westfield, Massachusetts quietly collapses over power, permits

Melissa Palmer
January 2, 2026

Servistar pitched a 2.7 million square foot hyperscale data center in Westfield that would have pulled 4–5x the city’s total...

Quiet early talks over Jones County data center reshape planning decisions

Quiet early talks over Jones County data center reshape planning decisions

Melissa Palmer
January 2, 2026

Local officials were talking with a prospective data center developer in Jones County months before any formal application surfaced. That...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Transparency on AI data center costs now shapes infrastructure choices

Transparency on AI data center costs now shapes infrastructure choices

Melissa Palmer
December 26, 2025

The piece argues that large, often AI-focused data centers are being built with too little transparency about who pays the...

Massive rural data center strains grid, tests Leon County oversight

Massive rural data center strains grid, tests Leon County oversight

Melissa Palmer
December 26, 2025

Belltown Power plans a massive 1,500 MW data center in rural Leon County, Texas, a clear signal of hyperscale-style power...