Key Takeaways: The Persian Gulf’s largest AI infrastructure programs are moving forward despite a sharp rise in the physical risks surrounding data centers. Humain, backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, plans to seek an initial $2.5 billion from global and domestic investors to finance data center devel
Key Takeaways: Clayton Sherlock, who spent 16 years caring for patients at Osawatomie State Hospital, is challenging the proposed location of Project Catalyst, a large data center campus planned just a few hundred yards from the taxpayer-funded psychiatric facility. The Alcove Development project has expanded in p
Key Takeaways: Community resistance to data center development in southwest Missouri is broadening, with attention focused on a proposed facility at Wildwood Ranch in Joplin and another planned for the Sarcoxie area. The dispute reflects a larger challenge for the technology sector: securing enough land and power
Key Takeaways: Tata Consultancy Services subsidiary HyperVault is making a substantial infrastructure bet on India’s growing role in artificial intelligence. HyperVault and its partners plan to invest up to 700 billion rupees, or $7.41 billion, in a 1-gigawatt AI data center campus in Telangana. The scale puts the
Key Takeaways: Jones has challenged Senator Tommy Tuberville’s support for AI data center development in Alabama, arguing that Tuberville’s investments in the sector create serious ethical concerns. Jones also called for reforms to Alabama’s rules, placing the senator’s financial interests within a broader debate
Key Takeaways: Five members of the Independence City Council voted for a $6.2 billion funding package connected to the Nebius data center. Since that vote, three of those councilmembers have been removed from the dais, a striking level of turnover around one of the largest infrastructure decisions a local governme
Key Takeaways: North Dakota lawmakers declined to expand the agenda of their three-day special session, blocking Democratic efforts to introduce two proposals with significant implications for the state’s technology infrastructure and workforce. One proposal would have imposed a temporary moratorium on data center
Key Takeaways: Raeden Acquisitions has taken Gibraltar, Michigan, to court over a temporary data center moratorium imposed shortly after the developer filed plans for the former McLouth Steel site. The dispute is one of at least seven such lawsuits filed in 2026, marking a sharper turn in the fight over where larg
Key Takeaways: CPP Investments and Equinix have completed their US$4 billion acquisition of atNorth, placing substantial institutional and industry capital behind one of the Nordic region’s leading data center operators. The transaction gives CPP Investments a controlling interest in atNorth, reported at roughly 5
Key Takeaways: Chillicothe officials are pressing pause on data center development while they investigate what a proposed facility at the former Chillicothe Paper Mill could mean for local infrastructure and residents. The City Council passed the 60-day moratorium Aug. 24, temporarily blocking data center projects