Briefings
Every Data Center Infrastructure News & Events briefing, newest first.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 13, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 16 stories across legal challenges & litigation, money & incentives, community & opposition and environmental impact from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: The 'Decommissioning Bond' Mandate: Why Counties Are Now Requiring Exit Financing Before Groundbreaking.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 12, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 6 stories across community & opposition, regulation & moratoriums and power & grid from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Sacramento utility leaders decry data centers, call for stronger protections - Abridged – PBS KVIE.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 11, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 8 stories across legal challenges & litigation, environmental impact, siting & approvals and money & incentives from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: The 'Talen Precedent' and the End of the Behind-the-Meter Shortcut.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 10, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 10 stories across community & opposition, money & incentives, power & grid and environmental impact from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Voters Reject Data Centers in 40 of 41 Local Ballot Measures on Nov. 3.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 9, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 8 stories across money & incentives, community & opposition and regulation & moratoriums from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Google Announces Its First Wyoming Data Center with $17B Investment and Power Partnerships - ConstructConnect News.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 8, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 5 stories across power & grid and community & opposition from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Ameren plans investments beyond $38 billion for data center demand - ET Datacenters.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 7, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 9 stories across community & opposition, legal challenges & litigation, money & incentives and regulation & moratoriums from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: 13 townships in Jackson County have hit the brakes on AI data centers - MLive.com.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 6, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 7 stories across money & incentives, power & grid and community & opposition from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Could Democrats' election wins reshape Texas data center tax policy? - KEYE.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 5, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 6 stories across power & grid, community & opposition, regulation & moratoriums and siting & approvals from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: 13 GW At Immediate Risk As Texas Data Center Developers Face New Power Struggle - Bisnow.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 4, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 10 stories across community & opposition, power & grid and siting & approvals from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Clarksville water plant overhaul moves ahead; Microsoft underwrites cost - SoVaNOW.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 3, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 8 stories across community & opposition, money & incentives, jobs & economic impact and environmental impact from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Revenue-Sharing Proposals Test Whether Counties Can Capture Data Center Upside Without New Taxes.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 2, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 13 stories across power & grid, environmental impact, community & opposition and money & incentives from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: DEP Ready to OK Gas Fuel Cells for 2 GW Shippingport Data Center - Marcellus Drilling News.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 1, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 5 stories across community & opposition, environmental impact and power & grid from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Hagerstown weighs annexation of 171 acres as most speakers oppose data center use - LocalNews1.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 31, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 9 stories across community & opposition, power & grid, orbit & space data centers and money & incentives from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Olyphant considers agreement to settle data center lawsuit for $101 million - Scranton Times-Tribune.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 30, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 26 stories across community & opposition, power & grid, money & incentives and regulation & moratoriums from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Pennsylvania Candidates Push Self-Supply Rules for Data Center Power and Water Ahead of Local Ordinances.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 29, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 15 stories across environmental impact, community & opposition, money & incentives and legal challenges & litigation from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: AI has come for Arizona’s water - The Verge.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 28, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 11 stories across community & opposition, jobs & economic impact, siting & approvals and money & incentives from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Amid pushback, $10B+ data center project near Lansing promises to ‘flip the script’ - MLive.com.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 27, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 18 stories across community & opposition, money & incentives, power & grid and siting & approvals from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes' Three-Year Data Center Ban Lands Amid a Statewide Run of Oklahoma Pauses.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 26, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 13 stories across community & opposition, environmental impact, money & incentives and siting & approvals from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Over 100 New Jersey Towns Have Banned Data Centers, Affecting 2.3 Million Residents - 92.7 WOBM.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 25, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 6 stories across community & opposition and power & grid from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Rural Nevadans hate data centers. So why are their local governments doubling down on them? - The Nevada Independent.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 24, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 13 stories across power & grid, community & opposition and environmental impact from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: ComEd customers could pay billions for data center hookups, warns utility watchdog group - Shaw Local.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 23, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 20 stories across community & opposition, siting & approvals, regulation & moratoriums and power & grid from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Temporary restraining order denied in Springfield data center lawsuit - Springfield News-Leader.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 22, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 20 stories across environmental impact, legal challenges & litigation, community & opposition and regulation & moratoriums from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Dixon, California, Freezes New Data Center Approvals for 45 Days Over Power, Water and Wastewater Load.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 21, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 15 stories across community & opposition, regulation & moratoriums, power & grid and money & incentives from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Taunton bans data centers amid public backlash. What about exception? - Taunton Daily Gazette.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 20, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 17 stories across power & grid, community & opposition, money & incentives and regulation & moratoriums from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Pittsylvania County's Stack data center project to include 21 buildings, use up to 3,000 megawatts of power and 7 million gallons a day of water - Cardinal News.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 19, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 12 stories across environmental impact, money & incentives, community & opposition and power & grid from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Maryland Candidates Trade Accusations Over TeraWulf Data Center Donations and Moratorium Timing.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 18, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 10 stories across community & opposition, money & incentives, legal challenges & litigation and jobs & economic impact from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Oregon Freezes Data Center Permits as Debate Over Power, Water and Economic Growth Moves Toward 2027 - Grants Pass Tribune.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 16, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 12 stories across community & opposition, money & incentives, legal challenges & litigation and siting & approvals from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Georgia's Governor's Race Splits Over Who Pays for the Next Data Center.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 15, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 18 stories across power & grid, community & opposition, legal challenges & litigation and environmental impact from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: How data centers are rewriting homeowners’ property tax and power bills in 2026 - The Quad-City Times.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 14, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 14 stories across money & incentives, community & opposition and legal challenges & litigation from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Northern Kentucky county inks deal with Meta for data center on 2,000 acres - Lexington Herald Leader.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 13, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 23 stories across power & grid, community & opposition, money & incentives and legal challenges & litigation from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Mayes County Approves Lambda Data Center With No Tax Abatement and a Utility-Funded Power Study.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 12, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 14 stories across community & opposition, environmental impact and power & grid from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Indiantown’s data center war escalates as developer takes village to court - WPEC.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 11, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 6 stories across community & opposition, power & grid and money & incentives from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Mandan calls Dec. 15 special election on large-scale AI data center ban - The Bismarck Tribune.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 10, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 10 stories across orbit & space data centers, money & incentives, legal challenges & litigation and community & opposition from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: As companies pour billions into Earth-based AI infrastructure, Google taking the data center race off-planet - Fortune.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 9, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 8 stories across regulation & moratoriums, environmental impact, money & incentives and power & grid from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Allen Township data center rules could exempt proposed 240-acre campus - wtol.com.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 8, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 11 stories across community & opposition, environmental impact, money & incentives and power & grid from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Oracle's Force Majeure on Project Jupiter Exposes the Permitting Chain New Mexico Counties Are Now Rewriting.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 7, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 11 stories across community & opposition, legal challenges & litigation, regulation & moratoriums and money & incentives from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Amazon’s Walla Walla data center plan sparks tension between protesters, local officials - Washington State Standard.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 6, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 14 stories across community & opposition, money & incentives, siting & approvals and legal challenges & litigation from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Landry's '40 Times More Than Golf Courses' Water Claim Collides With Parish-Level Numbers.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 5, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 9 stories across community & opposition, jobs & economic impact and siting & approvals from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Data centers pump $340M into rural Texas projects as they try to improve their reputations - Planetizen.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 4, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 7 stories across community & opposition and environmental impact from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes pass data center ban - News 9.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 3, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 7 stories across community & opposition and environmental impact from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Grayslake getting the word out on data center project and what the property tax proceeds can mean - Daily Herald.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 2, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 6 stories across regulation & moratoriums, community & opposition and environmental impact from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Power play: Texas counties seek right to regulate burgeoning data centers - Austin Free Press.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — October 1, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 10 stories across power & grid, community & opposition, legal challenges & litigation and orbit & space data centers from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: ComEd's Deposit and Credit Rules for Data Centers Are Becoming the Template Other Midwest Utilities Are Testing.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — September 30, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 12 stories across community & opposition, legal challenges & litigation and regulation & moratoriums from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: 'Another piece of the puzzle': What Gov. Moore's data center order means for Montgomery County - Montgomery Community Media.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — September 29, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 17 stories across community & opposition, power & grid, regulation & moratoriums and money & incentives from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Oregon's POWER Act Pushes Data Center Rates Up 29% as Kotek Backs Statewide Moratorium.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — September 28, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 12 stories across money & incentives, community & opposition, legal challenges & litigation and power & grid from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Lambda to build AI data center in Mayes County with $500M tax impact - newson6.com.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — September 27, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 6 stories across money & incentives, community & opposition and siting & approvals from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: MARA Posts $100M Deposit, Reworks Texas Deal Amid Data Center Audit - TheEnergyMag.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — September 26, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 11 stories across community & opposition, legal challenges & litigation, siting & approvals and money & incentives from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: East Whiteland officials approve a lengthy data center ordinance, after residents decried the one being built there - Inquirer.com.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — September 25, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 13 stories across environmental impact, legal challenges & litigation, regulation & moratoriums and money & incentives from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Georgia Counties Confront Water Gaps and Dry Wells as Data Center Permitting Spreads.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — September 24, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 18 stories across money & incentives, community & opposition, regulation & moratoriums and orbit & space data centers from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Ferguson revives data center at former Emerson site with up to $1.5B in incentives - The Business Journals.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — September 23, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 11 stories across power & grid, community & opposition, legal challenges & litigation and environmental impact from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Governor Newsom signs most comprehensive data center laws in the nation, providing communities more control on water, electricity, and land use - California State Portal | CA.gov.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — September 22, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 15 stories across power & grid, community & opposition, regulation & moratoriums and legal challenges & litigation from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Spartanburg data center gets OK to generate 457 megawatts from SC regulators - Post and Courier.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — September 21, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 15 stories across regulation & moratoriums, environmental impact, community & opposition and power & grid from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Fauquier County Planning Commission recommends change to res... - FauquierNow.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — September 20, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 3 stories across environmental impact, power & grid and community & opposition from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Fracking flourishes amid data center surge in Western Pa. - TribLIVE.com.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — September 19, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 14 stories across power & grid, community & opposition, money & incentives and environmental impact from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: Xcel's large-load tariff proposal, focused on rate hikes related to data center energy usage, open for comment - 9News.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing: water, power, tax, and siting actions across multiple states
This briefing tracks new state and local actions affecting data center development, including a water quality certification for the Three Mile Island restart, tax and resource requirements in Nevada, and moves in Texas and Congress on public costs and tax breaks. It also covers community opposition, zoning disputes, moratorium and ban efforts, and utility and water concerns from Pennsylvania to New Mexico, Ohio, and California.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — September 17, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 29 stories across community & opposition, money & incentives, power & grid and siting & approvals from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: A tobacco-and-dairy county in southern Virginia killed a plan for 12 data centers and a 3,500-megawatt gas plant. Residents organized with help from the Southern Environmental Law Center, and county supervisors voted it down 6–1 in April 2025. - ScienceBlog.com.
Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — September 16, 2026
Today's briefing brings you 38 stories across power & grid, community & opposition, money & incentives and siting & approvals from the county boards, utilities and regulators deciding where the servers land. Leading today: FERC Directs New York Independent System Operator to Revise Tariff to Expedite Data Center Development - akingump.com.