Politico explores the growing polarization in Virginia over data center developments, balancing the economic benefits against environmental and community opposition.

Policy Controversy Virginia — Politico

Growing local opposition to data centers is escalating into a prominent political issue, directly impacting key midterm election campaigns and policy debates nationwide.

Policy — The Washington Post

A proposed data center on Charlotte's east side is facing significant local opposition, sparking debates among city officials regarding community and developmental impacts.

New Builds Opposition N. Carolina — Charlotte Observer

A proposed data center in Ridgeland is facing opposition from major Mississippi energy companies, highlighting grid and power availability concerns.

Power & Energy Opposition Mississippi — Mississippi Today

An editorial criticizing the South Carolina legislature's slow action on data center regulations and urging local communities to use existing tools to manage new developments.

Policy Controversy — Post and Courier

Applied Digital has secured a new U.S.-based, investment-grade hyperscaler tenant for its massive 430 MW AI Factory Campus at Delta Forge 1. This is a major leasing announcement representing significant hyperscaler investment in next-generation AI infrastructure capacity.

Deals — The Globe and Mail

A controversial data center project is receiving a $77 million tax break despite only creating a single permanent job, sparking debate over economic incentives.

Policy Controversy — TheDailyNewsOnline.com

Thor Equities plans to build a 460,000 sq ft data center campus near Urbana, Ohio, but the project faces uncertainty due to the potential repeal of a local zoning ordinance.

New Builds Opposition Ohio

Panelists from Microsoft and Google detailed strategies for placing volatile AI workloads, highlighting reliance on modular data center design, tighter planning loops, and constant capacity tradeoffs.

Market

Microsoft is expanding its plans for a data center campus in La Porte, Indiana, seeking to rezone an adjacent property to support future capacity development.

New Builds Indiana

An overview of rapid data center growth in Tennessee delves into the background of several controversial project sites and the community backlash surrounding them.

New Builds Controversy — columbiadailyherald.com

The Maine legislature passed the state's first data center moratorium, citing energy and environmental concerns, and awaits the governor's signature.

Policy — Independent Women's Forum

Plans for what is claimed to be the world's largest AI data center in Alberta have been expanded, marking a significant development for the region's tech infrastructure.

AI Infra Alberta — The Energy Mix

Hyundai Heavy Industries signed a $423.7 million agreement to supply Aperion with 684MW of natural gas turbines to power the US data center market.

Power & Energy

Elon Musk announced that Tesla will utilize Intel 14A technology at its $20 billion TeraFab project in Austin, Texas, sharing production capacity with SpaceX.

AI Infra Texas

Data Centre Magazine detailed EdgeCore's significant data center expansion plans in Northern Virginia, the world's largest and most active data center market.

New Builds Virginia — Data Centre Magazine

The Reno City Council is weighing new regulations and considering a pause on future data center developments amid growing community concerns over resource consumption.

Policy Nevada — Reno Gazette Journal

Maine has enacted a moratorium on new data centers to pause development before state subsidies attract a surge of unmanageable, energy-intensive projects.

Policy — Good Jobs First

Power availability has become the critical factor for large 100MW data center projects, driving market trends and site selection strategies looking toward 2026.

Power & Energy — Datacenters.com

CoreWeave announced an expanded multi-cloud AI stack at Google Cloud Next, rolling out new interconnect, orchestration, and data services designed to solve multi-cloud AI infrastructure bottlenecks.

AI Infra

CNN analyzes the solutions to mitigate AI's impact on the power grid and explores the obstacles preventing these fixes from being implemented.

Power & Energy — CNN

Columbus-based thermal management giant Vertiv is reaping billions in revenue as the explosive growth of AI workloads drives unprecedented data center cooling needs.

Market Ohio — The Columbus Dispatch

The skyrocketing power and high-density demands of artificial intelligence workloads are forcing operators to fundamentally rethink traditional data center power and cooling infrastructure.

AI Infra — TechRepublic

ERCOT reports growing energy demands on the Texas grid, driven partly by data centers, but suggests long-term forecasts might be overstated.

Power & Energy Texas — Houston Public Media