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Data Centers
‘Not the Way to Go’: A Small City In Jersey Makes a Statement on AI and Data Centers
Two ordinances would close the city’s zoning code to data centers and remove the use from a redevelopment plan. In…
Data Centers
BREAKING: Trump Admin Tells Judge it Expects She’ll Bar it from Fighting NAACP’s Suit against Musk Co.’s Data Center
Trump Administration lawyers have told a federal judge overseeing the NAACP’s lawsuit against xAI over its Colossus 2 data center…
Data Centers
How Local Governments Are Pausing Data Centers
We looked at nearly 100 communities across more than 30 states that have moved to pause data-center development. Their moratoria…
Data Centers
In Ames, Iowa, citizens will study health impact of data centers before one gets a green light
A unanimous vote by the Ames City Council this week creates an expert committee to study environmental and health questions…
Data Centers
Indianapolis Puts New Data Centers on Pause — But Three Projects Stay in Motion
City officials moved a 16-month data center moratorium forward, but residents protested it didn’t go further. Indianapolis put in a…
Data Centers
A Pause Near the Chesapeake Bay—For Data Centers
Calvert County, Maryland, kisses the Chesapeake Bay on one side, but will slow down a new, budding courtship with data…
Data Centers
In Greensboro, N.C., some feel ‘sold out’ by politicians. They don’t want billionaires to be next.
Residents warned leaders of water, power, noise, surveillance, and inequity as the City Council weighed a four-month pause — and…
Data Centers
In Truman’s Hometown, People Are Giving a Data Center Hell
On July 6, two days after the country’s 250th birthday, residents of Harry Truman’s hometown lined up at the City…
Nuclear
Google Wants to Restart a Nuclear Reactor for a Data Center. Some Iowa Doctors Say, ‘Not So Fast.’
Like most big tech companies investing heavily in data centers for AI, Google has been busy planning massive new sites…
Opposition
The NAACP is Taking On Musk and Trump in a Major Battle over Data Centers. Moody’s Just Upped the Stakes.
How Data Centers are allowed to expand in the U.S.—and the future of Elon Musk’s empire—Hang in the Balance When…