Democratic governors have a new message for data center developers amid community backlash: Cut a deal. Community benefit agreements are increasingly appearing in state strategies for handling the ...

As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly compute-intensive, data centers are emerging as critical strategic infrastructure underpinning U.S. economic competitiveness, technological ...

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Data center opposition is on the rise, with a patchwork of local moratoriums and rezoning fights popping up across the United States. As the midterm elections approach, that backlash could push the ...

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Governors across the country are relying on their executive powers to address the increasing public backlash against data center proposals. In July 2026, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul placed an effective ...

Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Tuesday subjecting proposed data center projects to local approval before developers can move on to state permitting, representing her administration's ...

A sign that reads House of Representatives inside the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg. HARRISBURG, Pa. – On Monday, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted to pass key legislation to ...

Data centers are not new. While sometimes vitriolic discussions about the gargantuan structures have accompanied increasingly unavoidable AI conversations, data centers themselves have been around ...

Data centers are changing North Texas communities across the region. North Texas is quickly becoming the nation's epicenter of data center planning and construction. KERA News, The Denton Record ...

Pennsylvania has launched an interactive map to track 65 planned data center projects. Most of the proposed data centers are concentrated in the Eastern and Western regions of the state. Gov. Josh ...