The North Carolina General Assembly returns to Raleigh today for its 2026 short session, and one of the few measures with visible bipartisan momentum is a proposal from Gov. Josh Stein (D) to modify or repeal the state's sales tax exemptions on data …
Amwell Township in Washington County, Pennsylvania will hold a public hearing on May 14, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. on a proposed zoning amendment that would, for the first time, define "data center" in township code and set out where such facilities could …
The Weaverville Town Council, in the Asheville metropolitan area, will hold a public hearing on Monday, April 27, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. on a proposed zoning text amendment "related to crypto mining, data centers." The notice states that "action may be …
Residents near the Vantage II data center in Sterling, Virginia are pressing Vantage Data Centers and the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors over round-the-clock noise and air-quality impacts from eight natural-gas turbines running as a microgrid …
Utah State Rep. Doug Fiefia — a former Google employee running for state senate — has seen his signature AI bill blocked with help from the Trump White House. Fiefia's proposal would have required AI companies to include child-safety protocols for …
At its annual conference in Hershey Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Association of Township Supervisors (PSATS) convened a panel specifically to help township officials build data-center zoning ordinances before a developer proposal arrives. That's the …
Today's throughline: the zoning window. Three communities showing three positions on the timeline. A North Carolina town has its public hearing in six days. In Pennsylvania, the state township association spent yesterday urging colleagues to write …
NPR published a sweeping analysis arguing that data center opposition has crossed the threshold from local land-use dispute to viable midterm campaign issue. The evidence is mounting fast. In Festus, Missouri, voters ousted all four incumbent …
AEP Ohio filed notice this week with the Ohio Power Siting Board for a new 345-kilovolt substation and a cluster of transmission lines in Licking County, serving a large customer development near New Albany. The filing is in two parts: - Case No …
Two Portage County cities voted within a week of each other to pause new data center applications while they write zoning they can actually defend. Streetsboro City Council approved a six-month moratorium last Tuesday. Kent City Council followed …
Also today: Rhode Island's first data center fight has become a governor's race issue as Helena Foulkes backs H7270/S2427 and Gov. McKee stays silent. LaPorte, Indiana held a "heavily attended" public hearing on April 13 — we're trying to learn what …
The International Energy Agency reported that data centers accounted for roughly half of all electricity demand growth in the United States in 2025 — far surpassing the rise in residential, industrial, and transportation sectors combined. U.S …
The most complete single piece of data center reporting filed anywhere this week was Patrick Anderson's front-of-the-paper story in the Providence Journal on the proposed Hanton City campus — a roughly 500-acre site in Smithfield, Rhode Island that …
More than 30 residents attended a Lebanon County commissioners' workshop to voice objections to a proposed $1.7 billion, 99-acre data center in South Annville Township. The project would include five buildings and employ an estimated 50 to 100 …
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