Arizona
(The Center Square) - Arizona's Pima County is taking steps toward a temporary ban on new data centers.
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Editor’s Note: Data center news is coming at us every day. This is the first in an occasional series of stories to keep Lantern readers up to date on the big and small events of an issue that could affect every region of the state. Louisville passed a data center pause, where a data center […]
States Newsroom
On Tuesday, the Mercer County Fiscal Court passed a one-year moratorium on data center construction, the latest turn over months of tumultuous debate in the rural county over whether the community should welcome a hyperscale data center project. The county’s planning and zoning commission has also advanced an ordinance to regulate the siting and impacts […]
Louisiana
(The Center Square) – A Caddo Parish official plans to introduce a legislative measure next week in an attempt to impose local taxing authority through a two-year moratorium that would slow data center projects in the parish while they assess their long-term effect.
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A Democratic lawmaker in North Dakota is calling for the Legislature to address data centers while legislators are gathered for a special session next month. But a top legislative leader is skeptical that a three-day special session, focused on regulating kratom, is the right time to debate data centers. Sen. Tim Mathern of Fargo plans […]
Commentary
As more Hoosier communities debate data centers, a growing number of local governments are reaching for moratoriums. Nearly a third of Indiana counties have adopted data center restrictions, with Indianapolis now considering a temporary halt of its own. Concerns about water, power, taxes, infrastructure and transparency deserve serious answers. But moratoriums can have unintended, far-reaching […]
Ohio
As data centers continue to grow both in numbers and unpopularity, the candidates in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race are calling for more oversight. While they offer contrasting visions for data centers, neither has embraced a full halt in construction desired by advocates. Incumbent Republican Ohio U.S. Sen. Jon Husted played a pivotal role in bringing […]
Oregon
Oregon would join 15 other states that have proposed data center pauses in the last year.
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A construction contractor says a hyperscale data center developer asked him to continue to clear Bell County land where a data center is planned, despite a two-year temporary ban on data center construction passed by the county government. Lexington-based Murray Industries wants to use land with leftover electrical infrastructure for coal mining along the Bell-Knox […]
Commentary
I grew up in Bell County, which means I grew up hearing two promises. The first was jobs. The second was that whatever created those jobs would not hurt anybody. We got pretty good at believing the first one. The second one, not so much. So when hundreds of people packed the old courthouse in […]
