Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has signed an executive order to prevent data centers from seeking state-level approvals without local support. Healey’s new order prevents data centers over 25 megawatts from seeking state... Read more »
Congress should consider raising a new excise tax on data center development to offset rising power costs and workforce disruption, one lawmaker says. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), the top Democrat on the... Read more »
Florida voters will choose between two prospective governors with differing views of the state’s housing market and approach to property taxes. GOP Rep. Byron Donalds and David Jolly, a Republican-turned-Democrat, both overwhelmingly... Read more »
Data centers are increasingly popping up next to American homes, and they’re changing neighborhoods in the process. The number of large data centers over 50 megawatts has increased sevenfold from 2018, and... Read more »
Virginia, home of the nation’s densest concentration of data centers, will require them to pay for the dedicated new power infrastructure they need in a bid to spare homeowners from rising electric bills.... Read more »
While everyday consumers struggle under the weight of rising prices on goods and services, large-scale data center construction projects across the Midwest and South are propping up local economies, according to a... Read more »
Tensions are rising in Archbald, PA, over plans for dozens of new data centers that will span hundreds of acres in the tiny borough. The city of 7,000 is divided over developers’... Read more »