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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A bill moving through the Indiana Statehouse is attempting to ease growing tensions between fast-growing tech development and local communities pushing back against it. House Bill 1333 ...

The proposal in front of the Southfield City Council centered on a data center project from Metrobloks, planned for Inkster Road near 11 Mile Road and Interstate 696 on a vacant parcel of roughly a ...

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WILMINGTON, Ohio — Wilmington city officials have delayed final approval of a $4 billion Amazon data center project after weeks of intense opposition from residents. The massive facility would span ...