Fascinating nugget of data from an Economist deep dive cross-referencing polling data with the location of datacenters: “Voters across the...
Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson, a congressional candidate and high-profile opponent of local data center sprawl, filed suit Thursday against his hometown’s City Council after the council threw him, his brother, his mother, and other locals out of a meeting earlier this month for protesting delays to a vote on a data center moratorium—and…
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Lately, AI data centers are public enemy No. 1. The concerns are legion: how much water and electricity they consume, the noise they generate, the sprawling buildings they bring to communities, and the technology they’re powering that may or may not take all of our jobs and usher in the robot apocalypse. Earlier this year,…
Amid renewed jitters in AI stocks and a sharp drop in CoreWeave bonds, Anita Verma-Lallian of Arizona Land Consulting says the market is repricing excess hype, not losing demand for viable data-center projects. She describes AI infrastructure as facing a delivery constraint: sites with land, power, zoning and infrastructure are attracting more demand than…
Data centers and land use issues will be on the docket in the Goochland County Circuit Court on Tuesday. Last year, the Board of Supervisors passed legislation that carved a Technology Overlay District out of a designated growth zone in an area called West Creek, near the county’s border with Henrico County. The county said...
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