Data Center Infrastructure News & Events Briefing — November 13, 2026

Five counties across the PJM and MISO grids have written decommissioning-bond requirements into law in just eight months, each borrowing bond mechanics from existing solar and wind ordinances.

From Our Desk

Soluna is said to be pursuing a large AI data center expansion in Willacy County. The filing or report, as given here, does not say what land, power, water, tax, or local approval commitments are attached to the project.

Tax abatements & incentives

The project is a proposed data center on leased land tied to the LDS Church, and the filing says it is moving ahead. The excerpt does not say whether any tax break, land approval, power deal, water commitment, or local permit has actually been granted.

Tax abatements & incentives

A Declo farmer has sold family land for a proposed data center campus. The piece is about land assembly and a proposed site in Idaho, and it does not say whether the project has approvals, power, water, or tax terms in place.

Tax abatements & incentives

Amazon has started construction on a new data center in Northwest Indiana. The filing does not say what the project will use in power, water, tax treatment, or land terms beyond the groundbreak­ing itself.

Projects & construction

The piece is about Nevada residents pushing back on a federal permitting bill because they think it could affect data center development and tribal sovereignty. It is about state-level political opposition around siting and regulation, not a specific project approval or utility commitment.

State policy & legislation

The piece is about how local anger over data centers affected Pennsylvania elections and what that political shift could mean for future project approvals and incentives. It centers on community backlash and the tax and policy response rather than a specific new build.

Tax abatements & incentives

Richland Township approved temporary bans on new data center projects and battery energy storage developments. This is a local siting and zoning move that pauses new proposals while the township decides what it will allow.

Moratoriums & opposition

Westlake approved the data center after a settlement ended a lawsuit brought by Keller neighbors. The piece is about local opposition and the legal path that cleared the project in Tarrant County.

Moratoriums & opposition

A school district is moving to take part in a lawsuit involving a data center developer, which makes this a local legal and community dispute tied to a proposed project. The filing excerpt does not say what the project would cost the host, what land or zoning issues are at stake, or what specific claims the district wants to press.

Moratoriums & opposition

Hagerstown officials have not yet set a vote on an annexation tied to a potential data center. The piece is about local land-use and community process, with the project still at the proposal stage.

Water & cooling

Residents in a central Connecticut suburb are trying to stop data center development before any proposal advances. The piece is about local opposition and the chance of a moratorium or other zoning barrier, not a built project or a committed host site.

Moratoriums & opposition

The piece concerns a proposed data center tied to the Eastern Plains Ranch site in Elbert County, Colorado. It is framed around the site and its water and cooling implications, but the excerpt does not say what commitments the project has made on power, water, tax, or land, or what local approvals it has or has not secured.

Water & cooling

State lawmakers are pressing New Jersey regulators to deny an air permit for a proposed South Brunswick data center. The filing points to environmental permitting and local opposition around whether the project should move ahead.

Water & cooling

Google and Meta are part of a new Alabama trade group for the data center industry. The excerpt says the group is meant to give the sector a unified voice on policy, but it does not say the filing commits a specific site to power, water, tax incentives, or land use.

Water & cooling

Cuyahoga Falls adopted rules that will govern future data center proposals in the city. The filing says the local government is setting the terms for siting and regulation, but it does not say whether any specific project has been approved, what land or utility commitments a project would require, or any tax package tied to one.

Water & cooling