Amazon's AI data center push faces 100-plus local moratoriums as AWS pledges $1 billion while communities demand enforceable answers on water, power, and transparency.

The tech industry is facing fierce local backlash to data center projects around the country. But a new poll suggests national opinion is still up for grabs. Cities from Madison, Wisconsin, to ...

Data center opposition is on the rise, with a patchwork of local moratoriums and rezoning fights popping up across the United States. As the midterm elections approach, that backlash could push the ...

As state and local governments accelerate cloud adoption and deploy artificial intelligence tools, data sovereignty is emerging as a foundational issue for IT and policy leaders. At its core, data ...

Public resistance to data centers is spreading across the political spectrum — and has already disrupted billions of dollars of investments. The trend poses a tricky problem for both Republican and ...

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AI development is happening so fast that experts are struggling to measure the exact growth rate. Such a blistering pace of growth comes at a high cost for residents in areas where AI data centers are ...

Will Fort Worth join cities across Texas and the United States in implementing development standards for new data centers later this year, or perhapsenact a temporary moratorium on the projects? That ...