Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing: water, power, tax, and siting actions across multiple states
Friday, September 18, 2026
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.
power
Pennsylvania regulators issued a water-quality certification tied to the proposed restart of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant for data center power use. The filing points to a water and power decision in Dauphin County, but it does not say what water commitments, cooling changes, or broader project terms were approved.
Water & cooling
A local energy company says data center proposals could be coming to Garfield County. The piece appears to be about possible siting interest and the local power and water implications for the county, but the excerpt does not say whether any project has been filed or approved.
Water & cooling
money
The piece appears to concern Texas policy around who pays for data center growth, with the state pushing back on costs that could fall on ratepayers or taxpayers. It is about project support and public cost, not a specific site filing, and the excerpt does not say which project or projects are directly affected.
Water & cooling
The piece says a Nevada governor’s order would require new tax and resource terms for data centers. It concerns what a project host may need to give up in money and resource commitments, but the excerpt does not say which projects are covered or what exact obligations were added.
Tax abatements & incentives
The piece is about a senator trying to remove some federal tax advantages for data centers. That fits the money beat because it concerns tax treatment of a project class, but the excerpt does not say which projects, where the policy would apply, or whether any site-specific deal is affected.
Tax abatements & incentives
Oracle’s Project Jupiter is described as sharing public environmental data, so the piece is about project-level environmental disclosure tied to a data center. The excerpt does not say where the site is, what utilities it will use, or whether any permit, water, or power commitment changed.
Water & cooling
community
Philadelphia residents are asking city officials to pause data center activity instead of creating a task force. The piece is about local opposition and how residents want the city to handle proposed development.
Moratoriums & opposition
Farmers in Ohio are pressing for protection of water resources as data-center demand grows. The piece is about local water concerns tied to proposed data-center development, not about the operators themselves.
Water & cooling
This is about New Mexico officials and advocates pushing back on the state’s data center buildout, with the excerpt pointing to water and cooling as the main issue. It appears to cover how the boom would affect local resources and what policy response is being proposed, but the excerpt does not say which projects are involved or what specific rules the plan would change.
Water & cooling
A Jefferson County judge has merged lawsuits tied to Birmingham's Nebius AI Factory site. The dispute centers on zoning and construction impacts, so it is a local siting and community fight rather than a project financing or utility story.
Moratoriums & opposition
An environmental group is seeking an injunction in a dispute with Spartanburg County over a proposed data center. The filing and the headline point to a local siting and community fight, but do not say how the county, land, power, water, or incentives would be committed if the project goes ahead.
Moratoriums & opposition
Opponents of the PAX-1 data center are asking a judge to halt development while related legal challenges proceed. The filing centers on a community and siting fight over whether the project should keep moving before those challenges are resolved.
Moratoriums & opposition
The piece is about local officials in Angelina County encouraging an AI data center project to locate there. It points to siting and public incentives, but the excerpt does not say what land, power, water, or tax terms were actually committed.
Tax abatements & incentives
A coalition is asking Guilford County to impose a long pause on data center approvals. The piece is about local opposition and county siting policy, and it does not say the proposal has been adopted or describe any utility, tax, or land deal.
Moratoriums & opposition
The piece is about the public fight over data center expansion and the energy costs tied to it. It points to Congress as the place where proposals to protect consumers from rising power bills are being discussed, but the excerpt does not identify a specific project, host site, utility deal, or local approval.
Water & cooling
Calexico has made its ban on data centers permanent, which is a siting and community decision for the city. The excerpt does not say whether any specific project was proposed there, what prompted the ban, or whether the city linked it to power, water, land-use, or tax terms.
Moratoriums & opposition
The piece says river-area mayors are talking about conservation because data center demand is putting new pressure on water supplies. It appears to be about how local governments along the Mississippi River are responding to that water-use issue, not about a specific project approval or utility deal.
Water & cooling
Residents in Nutley are organizing a petition to block a proposed data center on Kingsland Street. The piece is about local community opposition to a specific siting proposal; it does not say whether the project has approvals, financing, utility deals, or a final decision.
Moratoriums & opposition
South Huntingdon adopted local rules for data center development after residents raised objections to the facilities. The filing does not say whether any project is proposed there, what the rules cover in detail, or whether they change land use, power, water, or tax terms.
Moratoriums & opposition
The piece is about a proposed waterfront data center near the Ventura County Fairgrounds and the public concern it raised. From the headline and excerpt, the board’s action appears to be aimed at easing those concerns, but the filing does not say whether the project needs land approvals, power commitments, water supply, tax terms, or other project obligations.
Water & cooling
The piece addresses a water-use claim around data centers in the Colorado River system. It says experts do not think data centers are the cause of the river cuts, which makes this a water-and-community story about blame and local impacts rather than a project filing or site-specific commitment.
Water & cooling
siting
The piece says a Roanoke-area water authority thinks 2 million gallons a day is enough for the proposed Google data center campus. It is about water supply for a specific project and the local public utility that would serve it.
Water & cooling