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Terrible Mississippi Data center deal shows how deep tax breaks can backfire locally
The Compass Datacenters hyperscale campus in Meridian, Mississippi, got tagged as 2025’s “Worst Economic Development Deal of the Year” because...
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Big Tech lobbying leaves California data center rules mostly study and delay
California’s attempt to make AI data centers pay more of their true power costs collapsed into a weak law that...
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Pima County, Arizona backs massive data center after Amazon Walks
Pima County just greenlit a 290-acre data center project, Project Blue, even after Amazon walked away and no replacement hyperscaler...
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AI data centers reshape Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania while utilities, rules lag behind
Lehigh Valley is moving from scattered small data centers to true hyperscale, with two proposals totaling over 7.7 million square...
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AI data centers shift energy, water, and climate burdens onto Florida communities
AI data centers from Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon are driving massive new power demand, with wholesale electricity prices in...
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Transparency on AI data center costs now shapes infrastructure choices
The piece argues that large, often AI-focused data centers are being built with too little transparency about who pays the...
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Massive rural data center strains grid, tests Leon County oversight
Belltown Power plans a massive 1,500 MW data center in rural Leon County, Texas, a clear signal of hyperscale-style power...
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Gas-backed power strategy reshapes North Dakota data center Planning
The core signal is that Basin Electric and NextEra are exploring a large natural gas plant in North Dakota to...
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Data center growth lowers mississippi power bills when deals are structured right
Mississippi’s AWS data center buildout shows that hyperscale growth can lower, not raise, power bills when utilities structure agreements correctly....
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AI data center boom shifts grid upgrade costs onto regular customers says senators
US senators are calling out major AI and cloud vendors for driving city-scale power demand while letting residential and small...
