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WYTHE COUNTY, Va. – Nearly 100 Wythe County residents packed Fort Chiswell High School Monday night for the first in a series of public input meetings focused on zoning and a major AI computing campus ...

Weld County staff will incorporate resident feedback into the latest land-use code update following meetings on Monday and Tuesday, where residents spoke out against data centers coming to the county.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Making sure that regular utility customers don’t get stuck bearing the burden of paying to run data centers is a main goal as state regulators consider the ...

Add Us On GoogleAdd as a preferred source on Google ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) - Residents near a proposed Microsoft data center site say St. Joseph County leaders made decisions without listening ...

EL PASO, Texas - (KFOX14/CBS4) — As multiple data center projects move forward across the Borderland, the city of El Paso is asking residents to weigh in on new guidelines meant to shape how future ...

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - U.S. manufacturing activity grew steadily in February, but a gauge of prices at the factory gate raced to a near 3-1/2-year high amid tariffs, highlighting upside risks ...

Delaware regulators are considering a new tariff to determine how costs for rising electricity demand are shared. The proposal addresses whether data centers, which use massive amounts of power, ...

NEW KENT — Giant data centers are becoming increasingly controversial in Virginia communities amid concerns over their demands for power, water and environmental considerations. However, New Kent ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - The City of Tucson is inviting community members to participate in a series of public meetings focused on proposed regulations for large-scale data centers. These meetings aim ...