data centers

Port Washington voters approve TIF referendum requiring public sign-off on large financing districts; Ohio's bipartisan push to end billions in data center tax breaks heats up; Greenfield Township restricts data centers to industrial zones.

Maine House advances first statewide data center moratorium; Minnesota lawmakers push water permits for large users; Lowhill Township adopts 23-page data center ordinance.

Cheyenne annexes county land to manage data center boom; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians proposes indefinite ban on tribal lands; Tucson tightens rules with 400-ft setbacks and potable water ban.

Maine is poised to become the first state to freeze large data center construction. Multiple cities advance moratoriums and introduce new regulations. Data Center projects across US were denied and withdrawn. Mason County mobile home residents given three months to vacate for a project. READ MORE.

Maine poised to become the first state to freeze large data center construction. Huron County expands moratorium from six months to three years. Charlotte residents petition against facility near nature preserve.

Denver advances yearlong moratorium on data center construction during Stage 1 drought; Phillipsburg moves to ban data centers town-wide; three Pennsylvania townships pass or propose new data center ordinances on the same day.

Festus approves a $6 billion data center 6-2 as hundreds pack the high school gym; Beale Infrastructure pulls out of two Oklahoma projects on the same day; Trenton's planning commission clears Project Mila in a 10-minute meeting.

Archbald denies Provident's 18-building campus; Taylor unanimously approves a $2.5 billion KDC project next to Samsung; Meta funds 10 gas plants in Louisiana for 7.5 gigawatts of new capacity.

Pennsylvania passes the state's first data center regulatory framework. Three moratoriums pass in a single night in Baltimore, Boone, and Washington County. Tulsa freezes hyperscale permits through year-end. A judge clears Independence's Nebius after ruling against referendum. READ MORE.

Yorkville approves its third data center on a 550-acre campus; a Jackson County judge clears the path for Independence's $150 billion Nebius project; Tulsa unanimously passes a moratorium through year-end.