Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 11, 2026
Wednesday, 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.
legal
FERC's rejection of Talen's expanded Susquehanna-AWS co-location deal has become the precedent reshaping how data centers connect to power in PJM territory.
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environment
The project is still advancing in Dauphin County, but neighbors are raising utility and pollution concerns. The filing, as presented here, does not explain the project’s full power needs, water demand, tax terms, or site specifics beyond that local objections are centered on those impacts.
Water & cooling
siting
The piece is about a proposed data center in Maui and the military’s refusal to say how much water it will use. It squarely concerns water demand, disclosure, and local oversight of a specific project.
Water & cooling
money
The piece is about Virginia’s tax treatment of data centers and how the state measures the return from the break. It belongs in the money and taxation lanes, with the focus on what the public gives up and what the project returns to the state.
Tax abatements & incentives
regulation
The piece is about a state computing law and how it gives local governments room to restrict or reject data centers. It appears to focus on siting and regulatory authority in Jefferson County.
Water & cooling
community
The piece is about a proposed data center site in Salt Lake City and the fact that it could be built next to homes. Based on the headline and excerpt, the community issue is the nearby residential location, while the filing details about power, water, taxes, or land are not spelled out here.
Water & cooling
Residents in central Massachusetts are objecting to a proposed data center at a public meeting. The filing as presented does not say whether the project needs a zoning change, tax deal, water service, or power arrangement, only that local opposition is focused on the proposal itself.
Tax abatements & incentives
A township near Jackson adopted rules that would limit data center noise and water use. The filing does not say whether any specific project is proposed there or how the rules would affect land use, taxes, or power.
Water & cooling