Politics
Ken Paxton’s ‘Texas First’ Data Center Plan seeks balance(The Daily Signal) – Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has released his plan to protect Texas’ power grid and communities from issues associated with… Read More
Courts
‘They want to silence me’: Kansas residents sued by town over petition drive to ban data centersA small town in Kansas is suing several petition organizers who say the city’s lawsuit is largely an attempt to muzzle them and intimidate future citizen activists. Edgerton,… Read More
Culture
More pros than cons: ALEC panel discussion focuses on positives of data centers(The Center Square) – While much of the national conversation about data centers focuses on the amount of energy and water they consume, the pros of building more of… Read More
Culture
Meta to shell out billions for new AI data center outside US(Daily Caller News Foundation) – California-based technology giant Meta announced Wednesday that it is constructing its first artificial intelligence data center in Canada. Meta… Read More
Culture
Missouri data center fight at the heart of Sen. Hawley’s speech warning of AI threatA battle over a multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence data center near St. Louis has moved to the national stage. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, used the ongoing political upheaval… Read More
Government
Missouri mayor, councilmen face recall election in ongoing AI data center fightA political shakeup over a multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence data center has escalated in an eastern Missouri city, where petitioners secured enough signatures to trigger recall elections for the mayor… Read More
Culture
Watch: Kentucky rancher turns down $26 million from data center for land(The Heartlander) — “If it’s my way, I’ll stay and hold and feed a nation,” Delsia Bare says when asked why she turned down $26 million from a major… Read More
Culture
Big Tech reportedly gobbles up land for massive data center in suburbs(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Amazon reportedly inked a $700 million, hotly contested Virginia land acquisition for a future artificial intelligence (AI) data center, according to two sources familiar… Read More