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Pennsylvania township tightens rules on future AI-ready data center sites

Pennsylvania township tightens rules on future AI-ready data center sites

Melissa Palmer
January 22, 2026

Lower Saucon Township is moving to regulate future data centers with a new zoning ordinance aimed at controlling where they...

Data center committee shapes Oregon’s AI growth, grid and water protections

Data center committee shapes Oregon’s AI growth, grid and water protections

Melissa Palmer
January 21, 2026

Oregon is standing up a Data Center Advisory Committee to rein in where and how new GPU-heavy data and AI...

Community left guessing as data center plans lack basic details

Community left guessing as data center plans lack basic details

Melissa Palmer
January 20, 2026

Strata Expanse is planning an AI data center near Hanging Rock, Ohio, but four weeks in, they still have not...

Proposed Illinois neighborhood data center raises grid, diesel pollution, cost concerns

Proposed Illinois neighborhood data center raises grid, diesel pollution, cost concerns

Melissa Palmer
January 20, 2026

Naperville is weighing a 36 MW, 211,000-square-foot Karis Critical data center that would sit close to residential neighborhoods and sensitive...

Coweta, Oklahoma data center deal trades grid load for payments, jobs, training

Coweta, Oklahoma data center deal trades grid load for payments, jobs, training

Melissa Palmer
January 19, 2026

Coweta is weighing a 400 MW data center that would be a major load on the local grid but is...

South Dakota weighs massive AI data center on conditional tax, power deals

South Dakota weighs massive AI data center on conditional tax, power deals

Melissa Palmer
January 19, 2026

South Dakota is weighing its first 500 MW‑class data center site near Sioux Falls, with zoning approved but still vulnerable...

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...

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