Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 7, 2026

Thirteen townships in Jackson County have moved to pause AI data center development. The piece is about local siting and zoning resistance, and it affects where projects could be approved rather than any specific power, water, or tax commitment.

Moratoriums & opposition

The piece is about local opposition to a proposed data center project in Maryland and the role of an unexpected activist in helping push back on it. It centers on siting and community resistance, with the project still described as proposed rather than approved.

Moratoriums & opposition

A developer is asking a court to make Springfield review proposed data center plans while the city’s moratorium is in place. The dispute is about whether the project can move through local review, so the immediate effects fall on siting and the city’s permitting process, not on power, water, or tax terms that the excerpt does not mention.

Moratoriums & opposition

The story is about a lawsuit tied to alleged bot activity around opposition to a proposed Ferguson data center. It concerns the community fight over siting, with a legal dispute over how that opposition was carried out.

Moratoriums & opposition

A judge is weighing whether residents in Grayslake may have missed the deadline to challenge a data center dispute, while also flagging a possible due process issue. The piece is about the legal fight around a proposed data center and the local opposition to it, not about the project’s power, water, or tax terms.

Moratoriums & opposition

An environmental group is organizing a protest in Penn Yan and pressing for a moratorium on data center development in Torrey. The filing says the group is focused on stopping or delaying the project, but it does not describe any power, water, tax, or land commitment by the developer.

Moratoriums & opposition

Mississippi alleges the project began work on a Southaven data center before the required water permits were in place. The filing is about water compliance and the regulatory dispute around a specific proposed site, not about the operator’s business more broadly.

Water & cooling

Verrus is offering Salem a proposed financial package before the city settles how its data center code should be interpreted. The piece appears to center on money, local regulation, and the city’s role in deciding what the project can proceed under.

Water & cooling

The piece concerns a push to site data centers on public land and the political scrutiny around that idea. It appears to focus on federal land use, approval politics, and the public-interest questions around who controls the site and what the government is being asked to allow.

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