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Local moratoriums reshape planning and buildouts of AI data centers

Local moratoriums reshape planning and buildouts of AI data centers

Melissa Palmer
December 22, 2025

AI data center buildout is triggering bipartisan, citizen-led demands for local and national moratoriums, with Sanders and 230+ groups explicitly...

Georgia Data center power deal shifts long‑term costs and risks onto customers

Georgia Data center power deal shifts long‑term costs and risks onto customers

Melissa Palmer
December 22, 2025

Georgia’s PSC just approved a $16 billion, ~10 GW grid expansion largely to serve data centers, locking in a huge...

Michigan Regulators approve conditional fast-track power deal for massive AI data center

Michigan Regulators approve conditional fast-track power deal for massive AI data center

Melissa Palmer
December 22, 2025

Michigan regulators just greenlit fast-track power contracts for an OpenAI/Oracle-linked data center that will pull 1.4 GW, forcing DTE to...

Decatur, Indiana data center plan raises unanswered questions about power, water, taxes

Decatur, Indiana data center plan raises unanswered questions about power, water, taxes

Melissa Palmer
December 20, 2025

Residents in Decatur Township are pushing back hard against Sabey Data Centers’ plan for a two-building facility, with zero speakers...

Michigan AI data center power deal approved despite secrecy and local doubts

Michigan AI data center power deal approved despite secrecy and local doubts

Melissa Palmer
December 19, 2025

Michigan just greenlit fast-tracked power contracts for a massive OpenAI/Oracle-backed data center near Ann Arbor, skipping a full contested case...

AI-driven data center buildout shifts power costs and risks to Georgia customers

AI-driven data center buildout shifts power costs and risks to Georgia customers

Melissa Palmer
December 19, 2025

Georgia Power is asking regulators to approve a $15 billion plan to add 10,000 MW in five years, largely to...

Massive Georgia Power gas build tests AI data center assumptions

Massive Georgia Power gas build tests AI data center assumptions

Melissa Palmer
December 17, 2025

Georgia Power just secured a tentative deal to massively expand generation capacity, mostly gas, driven largely by projected AI and...

Ford shifts from EV bets to powering AI data centers

Ford shifts from EV bets to powering AI data centers

Melissa Palmer
December 16, 2025

Ford is cutting back on EVs and redirecting billions toward grid and data center battery storage because that is where...

Residents question secretive Coweta data center plan and rising power costs

Residents question secretive Coweta data center plan and rising power costs

Melissa Palmer
December 12, 2025

Coweta residents are pushing back on a proposed data center, with visible local organizing and frustration over being kept in...

Residents leave Fort Wayne, Indiana data center forum without concrete usage details

Residents leave Fort Wayne, Indiana data center forum without concrete usage details

Melissa Palmer
December 12, 2025

Google’s Fort Wayne data center is now operational, and this forum was the first real public airing of concerns about...

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