At the start of 2025, Stafford County’s economic development director, Liz Barber, predicted that data centers could go from zero to “a lot” within three years’ time. One year later, the county is ...

The project still requires final site plan and development agreement approvals from the township. The data center will be powered by new resources, including solar, under an agreement with DTE Energy.

On Thursday morning, a little over nine months after Botetourt County announced Google’s $14.1 million purchase of a 312-acre parcel in a Daleville industrial park for a data center campus, the ...

Following a contentious, nearly six-hour-long meeting, the Yorkville City Council has OK’d further approvals for a roughly 1,000-acre data center campus that has drawn the ire of numerous area ...

The currently defunct Blue Valley Power Plant in Independence, shown Thursday, January 29, 2026, will reopen and undergo a major expansion for the planned growth of an AI data center on nearby Bly ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. — Hyperscale data centers moving to upper Midwest communities is a growing concern for many rural residents. Across the region, such data centers already are in operation, are under ...

Maine is poised to become the first state to pass a temporary ban on data center construction after a measure was approved by both chambers of the state legislature. Similar bills have been introduced ...

Meta now plans to spend $10 billion on its AI data center in El Paso, Texas, up from a prior commitment of $1.5 billion. The data center aims to bring 1 gigawatt of capacity online by 2028. Meta is ...

Despite residents’ objections, Joliet plan commissioners advanced a proposal Thursday for what would be the state’s largest data center. Hundreds turned out for a public hearing, where the vast ...

The city of Fort Worth is considering offering tax breaks to a company proposing to invest $1.1 billion in a data center near Veale Ranch. Edged Data Centers, a subsidiary of sustainable ...

KSHB 41 reporter Isabella Ledonne reports on stories in Overland Park, Johnson County and topics about government accountability. She's been reporting on data centers for more than a year in the ...

The strikes during Operation Epic Fury showed that hyperscale facilities can become direct military targets. Even if a $1 billion facility is destroyed, giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and ...