The North American Electric Reliability Corporation — the federal-designated body responsible for keeping the U.S. bulk power system reliable — will issue a new alert in May escalating its previous warnings about data center load behavior. The short …
Amwell Township in Washington County, Pennsylvania will hold a public hearing on May 14, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. on a proposed zoning amendment that would, for the first time, define "data center" in township code and set out where such facilities could …
Utah State Rep. Doug Fiefia — a former Google employee running for state senate — has seen his signature AI bill blocked with help from the Trump White House. Fiefia's proposal would have required AI companies to include child-safety protocols for …
AEP Ohio announced Tuesday it plans to build a new electric substation on property Google already owns for a data center campus in Sugar Creek Township, Allen County, and to construct four miles of 345-kilovolt transmission lines connecting that …
NPR published a sweeping analysis arguing that data center opposition has crossed the threshold from local land-use dispute to viable midterm campaign issue. The evidence is mounting fast. In Festus, Missouri, voters ousted all four incumbent …
AEP Ohio filed notice this week with the Ohio Power Siting Board for a new 345-kilovolt substation and a cluster of transmission lines in Licking County, serving a large customer development near New Albany. The filing is in two parts: - Case No …
Two Portage County cities voted within a week of each other to pause new data center applications while they write zoning they can actually defend. Streetsboro City Council approved a six-month moratorium last Tuesday. Kent City Council followed …
Also today: Rhode Island's first data center fight has become a governor's race issue as Helena Foulkes backs H7270/S2427 and Gov. McKee stays silent. LaPorte, Indiana held a "heavily attended" public hearing on April 13 — we're trying to learn what …
The International Energy Agency reported that data centers accounted for roughly half of all electricity demand growth in the United States in 2025 — far surpassing the rise in residential, industrial, and transportation sectors combined. U.S …
The most complete single piece of data center reporting filed anywhere this week was Patrick Anderson's front-of-the-paper story in the Providence Journal on the proposed Hanton City campus — a roughly 500-acre site in Smithfield, Rhode Island that …
More than 30 residents attended a Lebanon County commissioners' workshop to voice objections to a proposed $1.7 billion, 99-acre data center in South Annville Township. The project would include five buildings and employ an estimated 50 to 100 …
Trump-branded Fermi America data center stalling (TX). CEO Toby Neugebauer departed abruptly; shares down 75% in six months. The Texas Panhandle project, co-founded by former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, has no publicly confirmed anchor tenant. An …
Update: This story builds on our April 15 coverage of Louisiana's regulatory fast-tracking. The numbers have gotten bigger. Louisiana Public Service Commission members voted 4-1 to allow Entergy Louisiana to bypass a formal administrative law judge …
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced it will take action in June on proposed reforms for connecting data centers and other large loads to the transmission grid, missing the Department of Energy's original April 30 deadline. The delay …
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