A pro-data center lobbying group has poured $367,272 into an advertising campaign in North Carolina touting the economic and business benefits of data centers. The industry is facing an uphill publicity battle in North Carolina. Community pushback against data centers has grown dramatically in recent months. More than two dozen counties and cities have passed […]

The Oregon Department of State Lands is proposing for the first time to charge multinational telecommunications and tech companies for using the seafloor off the state’s Pacific Coast for fiber-optic cables used to transmit internet data and international calls. Since 1989, when Oregon got its first trans-Pacific fiber optic cable spanning from Pacific City to […]

(The Center Square) – A group of Sturtevant residents who live near Microsoft’s recently completed data center in Mount Pleasant have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company over what they call “excessive noise” from the data center.