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This week on Data Centers: California and North Carolina advanced major data center bills, New York is poised to enact the first statewide moratorium, and Monterey Park voters backed California's first city-level ban. Oracle and OpenAI broke ground on a $16B Michigan campus.

North Carolina ties data center rules to a nuclear mandate, three towns slam the brakes with moratoriums, and a gigawatt-scale campus lands in rural Virginia.

New York moves toward a nation-first statewide moratorium, Virginia Beach unanimously bars future data centers, and Monterey Park voters appear set to enact California's first city-level ban.

Reno extends its data center pause to 2027, Vermont Democrats fall short of overriding Gov. Scott's veto, and Oracle, OpenAI, and Related Media break ground on a $16 billion Saline Township campus.

Microsoft enlarges its Cheyenne footprint by another 420 acres, California's Senate moves to make data centers cover their own grid costs, and four more communities slam the brakes with moratoriums or outright rejections.

This week on Data Centers: Eight new moratoriums passed in a single week across many states. Hanover County, VA rejects 900-megawatt Tract campus. Upper Macungie, PA denies 2.6m-square-foot project. Ohio pauses $1.6b data center tax exemption. Pennsylvania rolls out voluntary GRID standard.

Major rejections in Hanover County and Upper Macungie; Govs. DeWine and Shapiro roll out statewide moves on tax breaks and project standards.

Bloomington, IL enacts a six-month data center moratorium, Charlotte weighs a 150-day pause, and more than 1,000 residents petition against a $1.5 billion project in Lowndes County, Alabama.

Pennsylvania regulators move to keep data center costs off ratepayers, Indiana utilities lean into gas and coal, and fights over moratoriums and mega-projects spread from Montana to New York.

Moratoriums sweep new communities in Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas, and Connecticut, hundreds rally against Utah's 40,000-acre Stratos Project, and data center construction floods a West Virginia neighborhood.