American Rivers has named the Potomac River — the primary drinking water source for the Washington, D.C. metro area — the nation's most endangered river. The designation cites a January sewage pipe failure and the ongoing expansion of more than 300 …
Ohio's data center debate has intensified on multiple fronts. A group is working to place a constitutional amendment on the November ballot to ban all new large data centers, needing roughly 414,000 valid signatures by mid-2026. Meanwhile, the $33 …
A U.S. Department of Energy-funded study by Purdue University found that Indiana counties restricting wind and solar development lose at minimum $800 million per year in economic activity and approximately 9,000 jobs, primarily in rural …
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced it will take action in June on proposed reforms for connecting data centers and other large loads to the transmission grid, missing the Department of Energy's original April 30 deadline. The delay …
Update: This story builds on our April 15 coverage of Louisiana's regulatory fast-tracking. The numbers have gotten bigger. Louisiana Public Service Commission members voted 4-1 to allow Entergy Louisiana to bypass a formal administrative law judge …
In DeForest, Wisconsin, residents organized as "No Data Centers in DeForest" after learning that village staff had been strategizing with QTS representatives and Alliant Energy since March 2025 — months before the October public announcement. The …
Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a claim of appeal in the Michigan Court of Appeals challenging the Michigan Public Service Commission's December 2025 "conditional approval" of two special contracts between DTE Energy and Green Chile Ventures for …
The Louisiana Public Service Commission voted to adopt a fast-track schedule for Entergy Louisiana's application to build seven new gas-fired power plants for Meta's Hyperion data center in Richland Parish. These would join three gas plants already …
A Washington Post-Schar School poll of 1,101 registered Virginia voters found that comfort with new data center construction in their community dropped from 69% in 2023 to 35% today — approaching the 33% comfort level Americans express toward …
The NAACP, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice, filed a federal lawsuit against xAI and its subsidiary MZX Tech for operating 27 unpermitted gas turbines in Southaven, Mississippi, to power its Colossus 2 data …
Maine's legislature passed a first-in-the-nation statewide ban on new data centers drawing more than 20 megawatts of power — enough to power roughly 15,000 homes — effective until fall 2027. The bill establishes a study mechanism to evaluate data …
Texas will forgo at least $3.1 billion in sales tax revenue over the next two years from its data center tax exemption, according to the state comptroller's office. The exemption cost $5–30 million per year from 2014 to 2022. By 2023 it hit $150 …
The NAACP filed a federal lawsuit against xAI for operating 27 unpermitted gas turbines in Southaven, Mississippi, to power its Colossus 2 data center. The turbines could emit more than 1,700 tons of nitrogen oxides per year, potentially making the …
Microsoft announced plans to purchase approximately 3,200 acres south of Cheyenne, tripling its physical footprint in the area. The company has been operating data centers there since 2012 and was the No. 1 city taxpayer and No. 2 county taxpayer in …
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