The Louisiana Legislature is moving on a bill that would prohibit anyone from suing oil and gas companies for damages, injuries, or deaths attributed to pollution-driven climate change. House Bill 804, sponsored by Rep. Brett Geymann (R-Lake …
Microsoft has revealed plans for a second data-center campus on 1,200 acres of farmland directly adjacent to the data center it has already begun building in LaPorte, Indiana. The expansion hinges on the LaPorte city council approving the …
The single largest data-center rezoning loss in Virginia history is now final at the local level. On April 7, 2026, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution directing counsel not to appeal in the Prince William Digital …
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled unanimously that submetering companies — the third-party middlemen who buy electricity wholesale from the utility and resell it to apartment and mobile-home tenants — must be regulated under Ohio's public-utility …
Jackson-based Gabriel Prado's PraCon Global Investment Group, acting through affiliate Prado AI Industrial, has filed a Request for Declaratory Opinion with the Mississippi Public Service Commission asking the commission to confirm that private …
Two Maine energy stories are converging this week, and both are worth understanding together. LD 307 — the statewide data-center moratorium — passed both chambers of the Maine Legislature on April 14 without Gov. Janet Mills' requested carveout for …
Ravenna City Council voted unanimously on April 20 to bar data-center construction across the city for twelve months while it drafts zoning rules. The ordinance was written to also cover "server farms" and "cryptocurrency mining facilities" so the …
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is reviewing air-quality permit applications for 45 diesel-fired backup generators at the Cloverleaf/Vantage $15 billion data center under construction in Port Washington. Per the DNR application …
A new longitudinal analysis from The Data Center, a New Orleans-based research nonprofit, delivers the single most useful empirical rebuttal in circulation to the "transformative-investment-equals-transformative-jobs" pitch that data-center and …
A town hall meeting convenes at Buffalo Town Hall tonight at 6:30 PM to coordinate opposition to Google's proposed 1,700-acre data center in Putnam County. The site is roughly 2.7 square miles — about twice the area of New York City's Central Park …
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 1134 / HB 1217 on April 22 at a Jacksonville ceremony. The bill's headline provisions are anti-DEI measures — prohibiting certain diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at state and local levels — but the energy …
The three-member Public Service Commission of Wisconsin convenes at 10:30 AM today at the Hill Farms State Office Building in Madison to rule on We Energies' proposed Very Large Customer (VLC) tariff — a special electric rate structure designed …
Today the "what is a public utility?" question moves through three state regulatory venues, in three different directions. Wisconsin's PSC votes on whether hyperscale data centers should pay 100% of their grid costs or 75%. Ohio's Supreme Court …
Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection has proposed a consent decree that would allow the commonwealth's two largest coal-fired power plants — the Keystone Generating Station in Armstrong County and the Conemaugh Generating Station in …
In a closely watched veto-session vote Wednesday, the Virginia General Assembly split the difference on Gov. Abigail Spanberger's amendments to SB 253 and HB 1393 — the two major data-center cost-shift bills passed earlier this year. The outcome is …
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