At the start of 2025, Stafford County’s economic development director, Liz Barber, predicted that data centers could go from zero to “a lot” within three years’ time. One year later, the county is ...

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The ballooning volume of capital required at the beginning stages of the data center building process is forcing developers and investors to find new ways to raise the money needed to buy land and ...

WKAR News is diving deep on data centers this week as multiple proposed projects across the state face public pushback. Michigan State University professor Doug Bessette’s research focuses on finding ...

A conceptual aerial rendering of plans for a Metrobloks data center in Martindale-Brightwood’s former Sherman Drive In site. (provided by the City of Indianapolis) Like people in many communities ...

After months of discussion — and some resident opposition — the Yorkville City Council has given a first green light to a roughly 1,000-acre data center campus proposed in the area. The proposed data ...

A developer tied to data center projects in Archbald and Blakely now proposes to build four data centers in Dickson City across hundreds of mountainside acres above Business Route 6. Dickson City ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A $1 billion data center was among several projects proposed for potential development across the Grand Rapids area in December. Lowell Township planning commissioners were ...

WACO — Texas’ AI boom and the tide of data center companies chasing it have arrived in the Waco area. Lacy Lakeview, a suburban town five miles north of downtown Waco, and McLennan County are ...

The New Orleans City Council voted unanimously Wednesday (Jan. 28) to temporarily ban the construction of data centers in the city — a ban council members say will likely become permanent. The special ...

Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced Friday that Google has purchased property in Putnam County to begin the process of locating a data center in West Virginia. In a press release Friday morning, Morrisey ...