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Six‑month data center pause reshapes Birmingham, Alabama AI builds

Six‑month data center pause reshapes Birmingham, Alabama AI builds

Melissa Palmer
January 28, 2026

Birmingham’s planning committee is asking for a six‑month moratorium on new data centers so the city can better understand their...

Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin data center build reshapes Foxconn-era AI infrastructure plans by Microsoft

Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin data center build reshapes Foxconn-era AI infrastructure plans by Microsoft

Melissa Palmer
January 27, 2026

Microsoft just got the green light to build 15 more data centers in Mount Pleasant, spread across two new campuses...

Balancing AI data center growth, labor concerns, and grid impacts in Wisconsin

Balancing AI data center growth, labor concerns, and grid impacts in Wisconsin

Melissa Palmer
January 26, 2026

Wisconsin’s Assembly Bill 840 tightens rules on new data centers by forcing closed-loop cooling, mandatory water reporting to the DNR,...

Weighing AI data center tradeoffs before Pekin, Illinois town hall discussion

Weighing AI data center tradeoffs before Pekin, Illinois town hall discussion

Melissa Palmer
January 26, 2026

Pekin, Illinois is weighing a data center on a 1,000‑acre site intended to become a technology park, but local opposition...

Local pause on data centers reshapes how Michigan PLans infrastructure

Local pause on data centers reshapes how Michigan PLans infrastructure

Melissa Palmer
January 22, 2026

Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, just put a one-year pause on all new data center applications, with the option to shorten...

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...

Massive Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin campus reshapes where AI data centers cluster

Massive Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin campus reshapes where AI data centers cluster

Melissa Palmer
January 21, 2026

Microsoft wants approval for 15 massive data centers on the former Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant, on top of two...

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...

Moratorium on Michigan data centers reshapes AI buildout assumptions

Moratorium on Michigan data centers reshapes AI buildout assumptions

Melissa Palmer
January 21, 2026

Michigan’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Leonard wants a one-year moratorium on new data centers and an end to existing tax...

Wisconsin Community rules may limit data center scale, resources, and approvals

Wisconsin Community rules may limit data center scale, resources, and approvals

Melissa Palmer
January 20, 2026

Kaukauna, Wisconsin is moving to explicitly regulate future data centers before any hyperscaler or colo shows up. The proposed rules...

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