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Showing posts with label data centers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label data centers. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 04, 2026

Nuclear reactors, abandoned industrial sites seen as part of the solution to accommodate data centers in rural America

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     An experimental nuclear reactor in rural Kansas will be placed one mile underground, avoiding hulking facilities like the one above. (U...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Indiana creates nation’s first utility to provide electricity only to data centers; reaction is mixed among stakeholders

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    Power grids across rural America are facing the challenge of serving data centers. (Andrew Metelev via Unsplash) Rural Northwest Indiana...
Saturday, July 11, 2026

Developers of data centers target rural America but face widespread opposition, pushback among local residents

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Massive high-impact data centers are threatening to invade rural  America and  developers are facing growing opposition from residents. (Geo...
Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Opinion: The battle over data centers -- what they take, where the profits go and how some states show a better path

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Data center developers have zoned in on rural America as the best place to build. (Photo by  R. Starnes Sr., Unsplash) It was sold to Americ...
Friday, June 05, 2026

Texas lawmakers juggle angry voters, data center developers, Trump's AI push and a tech-first governor

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65% of Americans don't want a data center built in their community. (Photo by G. Moffet, Unsplash) With its sprawling land and business-...
Friday, May 29, 2026

Why can't states simply share energy to avoid blackouts? Bolstering U.S. grids requires multi-faceted plans.

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As power grids across the U.S. face more challenges, including dramatic increases in national energy needs, such as electricity-sapping data...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Opinion: Rural America needs Congress to require data center developers and the federal government to disclose plans

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Nondisclosure agreements leave community members in the dark. (Photo by Daniel Bernard, Unsplash) When urban and suburban Americans don...
Friday, May 08, 2026

A small town in Wisconsin pushes out a planned data center project

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Organizers participated in a day of action in Menomonie  in December. (Photo by K. Gregerson via Next City) Three thousand years ago, it was...
Friday, April 24, 2026

Data center developers often target tribal lands for rich resources and less oversight

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The Muscogee (Creek) Nation's Mound building, which houses the National  Council. (Photo by Amanda Rutland, Muscogee Nation, ZUMA) Tech ...
Friday, April 17, 2026

Maine's bill to pause larger data center projects awaits governor's approval; ban would be the first of its kind in U.S.

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Maine's data center bill would pause planned projects in two rural towns for 18-months. (Photo by Troy Mortier, Unsplash) If Maine's...
Friday, March 27, 2026

AI giants ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all 'pilfer' stories from Canadian news outlets, a new audit finds

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AI companies chose not to attribute their source materials. (Photo by Markus Winkler, Unsplash) ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all hijack ...
Friday, March 20, 2026

Open land, big skies, lots of grass — no data center. Some residents of rural New York area oppose big development.

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Alabama's website contains has a link to STAMP information, but the page contains surprisingly little information.   Rural New Yorkers a...
Tuesday, March 03, 2026

U.S. farmers skew Republican, but many are drawing the line at land and energy hogging data centers

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Some U.S. farmers in red states are vocally opposing  data center project proposals. (Adobe Stock photo) Land-hungry data center developers ...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Maine lawmakers consider a moratorium on data center developments as more towns reject proposals

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Maine lawmakers are considering a moratorium  on data center builds. (Photo by I. Quick, Unsplash) As data center developers target parts of...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

An interactive session about rural communities and AI data centers is scheduled for March 4

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While many rural residents may know that a large AI data center can bring potential gains and losses to their communities, many details rema...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Wisconsin utility regulators review plans for how to pay for data center energy needs

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Microsoft’s new AI data center campus in Mount Pleasant, Wis. (Microsoft graphic via Canary Media) Utility regulators in Wisconsin are scrut...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

As residential electricity costs climb, big users pay less

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Between 2022 and 2024 residential electricity costs  increased by 10%. (Photo by J. Maculan, Unsplash) After years of wallet-draining food i...
Friday, January 09, 2026

Data center developments force farmers to make tough choices

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Data centers can devastate nearby farmlands by depleting a regions aquifer. (Graphic by Adam Dixon, Offrange) Despite the financial windfall...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

A 'hyperscale' data center proposal divides a small town, but few details are known about the project

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Residents pack a November meeting of the Bessemer City Council. (Photo by Lee Hedgepeth, Inside Climate News) A sprawling data center plan ...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Data center developments offer plenty of community reporting opportunities

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U.S. data center infrastructure, with the relationship between the data center locations, transmission infrastructure and fiber optic netw...