Wisconsin communities are defeating data center proposals — and sharing the playbook. Residents in DeForest forced a Blackstone-backed developer to withdraw. Neighboring Menomonie passed restrictive zoning after learning its city council had signed an NDA with a mystery company a full year before the public knew. Both organized in months. Read the full story →
ComEd projects data center demand could more than double its entire electricity system by 2040 — building in 15 years what its director of economic workforce development, Max Leichtman, told an Illinois House committee “took us 120 years to achieve." Brian Granahan, director of the Illinois Power Agency, told the same committee there is “more demand pending in the connection queue than they traditionally had on the system, period.” Read the full story →
14 states don't report how much revenue they lose to data center tax breaks, and the three that do — Georgia, Virginia, and Texas — each lose $1 billion or more per year. A Good Jobs First report says most of the 14 non-reporting states are violating governmental accounting standards. Read the full story →
Also today: Sanders and UAW call for AI moratorium. WV Democrats flag Speaker Hanshaw's data center conflicts. Colorado's dueling data center bills among most lobbied legislation.