Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 2, 2026

The filing points to state review of gas-fueled power for a proposed 2 GW data center at Shippingport. It concerns electricity supply and the siting of a large load in western Pennsylvania, but it does not say the project is approved or fully built.

Water & cooling

Alliant Energy is describing a future power-supply deal pipeline for data centers in Wisconsin. The filing or excerpt does not say which projects are involved, how much land or water they would need, whether any approvals are pending, or what costs would land on customers or local governments.

Water & cooling

TerraVolt is planning a 240 MW data center campus in Idaho and says it would be behind the meter. The excerpt does not say what land, power, water, tax, or local approval commitments come with the project.

Water & cooling

State regulators are pushing back on a MISO proposal that would spread large-load costs more broadly, which puts the dispute in the rates and regulation lane. The piece is about how cost allocation for large power users would land on utilities and customers in the Midwest region; it does not describe a specific data center site or a local project approval.

Water & cooling

North Carolina’s governor and attorney general are urging data center owners to contribute to the cost of new power plants. The piece is about how the bill for new generation could be shifted onto large-load customers rather than spread across all ratepayers.

Grid, interconnection & tariffs

A judge let a lawsuit proceed over pollution from the Mississippi facility tied to xAI and SpaceX. The filing says the plant uses gas turbines and alleges the site has significant nitrogen oxide and formaldehyde emissions, but it does not say the project has been halted or that any permit outcome has changed.

Moratoriums & opposition

The piece summarizes public opposition to data center proposals, with water concerns showing up most often in the comments and meeting records. It also suggests many local discussions proceed without visible project supporters, but it does not identify a specific site, utility deal, land action, or approval outcome.

Water & cooling

Hagerstown officials want more time to consider a proposed annexation tied to a potential data center site. The piece is about local siting and zoning decisions, with the community weighing what the project would mean for the area.

Water & cooling

The piece is about local opposition to data center development in Iowa and the concerns driving that pushback. Based on the headline and section label, water and cooling are part of the dispute, along with community resistance to siting these projects.

Water & cooling

Larimer County is asking residents for input as it writes rules for data centers. The excerpt does not say what the proposed rules would require on land use, power, water, taxes, or approvals, beyond the public comment process itself.

Water & cooling

The piece appears to concern backlash to a proposed AI data center and the gap between its clean-energy claims and the community or environmental costs tied to power and water use. It does not give a specific host site, utility deal, or approval outcome in the excerpt provided.

Water & cooling

The piece concerns Pennsylvania’s data center tax exemption and the debate around keeping or changing it. It is about state tax policy for a specific class of projects, not a site buildout itself.

Tax abatements & incentives

The piece is about the cost of building data centers in space compared with building them on Earth. It does not describe a specific project, host community, land use, utility commitment, or local approval.

Orbital data centers