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Arizona
(The Center Square) - Arizona's Pima County is taking steps toward a temporary ban on new data centers.
Nevada
Following a county-wide moratorium on any new data center applications, the Nye County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to completely ban data centers in one of the most over-appropriated water basins in Nevada. After hours of public comment, the Nye County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to ban the construction and operation of data centers […]
New Jersey
At least three New Jersey towns are now being sued by data center developers challenging local bans on the facilities.
States Newsroom
Data centers took center stage at the Utah Capitol Wednesday as lawmakers met to figure out where to focus their attention come 2027.
Virginia
• “Virginia Beach pauses new hyperscale data centers for one year.” — 13 News Now • “Spanberger administration revokes Virginia youth psych facility’s license, calls system ‘broken.'” — WTVR • “Assistant state medical examiner fired over false certification letter; murder cases she testified in being questioned.” — The Virginian-Pilot • “Federal judge rejects Virginia mask […]
Missoula
Despite stating that signatures collected for the data centers ballot initiative didn’t meet the July 13 deadline established by state law, a district judge didn’t make a ruling about the petitioners’ lawsuit.
Montana
BUTTE, Mont. -- A ballot initiative to put the idea of building a data center in Butte up to a vote, which had collected the necessary signatures to appear in the November elections, may not appear on the ballot after all.
Montana
Artificial intelligence and its machines need electricity—a lot of electricity.
Opinion
In Southwest Memphis, residents of a historically Black neighborhood now live in the shadow of one of the largest computers ever built. Elon Musk's xAI has erected a sprawling supercomputing campus there — anchored by data centers it calls "Colossus" and "Colossus II" — and the community's response has been anything but grateful. People who have spent generations fighting to keep their air clean and their bills affordable see a familiar pattern: an industrial behemoth dropped in their midst, that the project’s environmental and power costs will ultimately be borne by their community.
