Key Takeaways: Illinois built its data center appeal on relatively inexpensive Midwestern electricity, a stable grid and limited regulation. That formula helped attract more than 240 facilities, most of them smaller sites around Chicago. Now the arrival of hyperscale projects supporting artificial intelligence is
Key Takeaways: Google is extending its data center flexibility strategy to the machine learning workloads behind large language models, marking a notable shift in how utilities and technology companies plan for rapidly growing electricity demand. Michael Terrell, Google’s head of advanced energy, said agreements w
Key Takeaways: Columbus GA Indivisible brought residents and a city official together Saturday at Columbus Technical College to debate a potential data center in Muscogee County, highlighting the increasingly local resistance facing digital infrastructure projects. District 8 City Councilman Walker Garrett answere
Key Takeaways: Eagle Mountain’s property tax fight has turned a municipal budget decision into a broader test of how communities finance growth tied to hyperscale computing. The Utah County city walked back an effort that would have raised its property tax levy by 183%, effectively asking homeowners to pay nearly
Key Takeaways: Florida-based Healthy Choice Wellness Corp. is seeking shareholder approval for an unusual combination with Host Digital Infrastructure, bringing a 19-store grocery portfolio together with a New York data center and artificial intelligence business. The transaction is structured as a reverse merger,
Key Takeaways: Huntsville residents are asking city leaders and Meta to disclose more information about the technology company’s expanding hyperscale data center campus, including its expected electricity and water consumption, environmental footprint and long-term economic contribution. At a Wednesday night meeti
Key Takeaways: Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Ore., has introduced legislation that would place a federal excise tax on electricity consumed by a broad range of data centers, from enterprise facilities to the largest AI computing campuses. The Data Center Community Reinvestment Act of 2026, or H.R. 10102, would amend the
Key Takeaways: Oracle has dropped its lawsuit against Wisconsin utility regulators, leaving in place safeguards designed to prevent the electricity costs of large data centers from shifting to households and small businesses. The Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin, known as CUB, characterized the decision as a si
Key Takeaways: Westlake Town Council members unanimously postponed action on a development agreement with PowerHouse Data Centers after a Tarrant County judge temporarily barred the town from approving or advancing the deal. Judge Kimberly Fitzpatrick of the 342nd State District Court in Fort Worth issued the temp
Key Takeaways: TeraWulf’s proposed data center at the former Century Aluminum site in Hawesville is becoming a test of Kentucky’s economic development priorities. The project offers a path to reuse a major industrial property, but it also places a high-demand computing facility on a site once associated with one o