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Data Centers

Data Center Forecasts Keep Climbing and So Does Public Opposition. Something Has to Give.

AI companies face serious challenges in community acceptance, energy supply and business fundamentals.

By Dan Gearino

The construction site of a data center is seen on May 27 in Cedar Creek, Texas. Credit: Jay Janner/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images
A data center on Omicron Road in San Antonio is owned by Vantage Data Centers and operates down the street from a residential area. Credit: Brendan Gibbons/Environmental Integrity Project

Environmental Groups Contest Texas Data Centers’ Air Pollution

By Ajani Stella

After Months of Debate, Virginia Fails to Pass Data Center Clean Energy Requirements

By Charles Paullin

Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks after signing an executive order to create the nation’s first statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers. Credit: Susan Watts/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul

New York Becomes First State in the Nation to Pause New Hyperscale Data Centers

By Amy Green, Ajani Stella, Dan Gearino

A worker extracts a drill core at a copper mining project in the Andes mountain range of Calingasta, Argentina, on April 21. Credit: Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images

AI, Defense Spending Fuel the Rush to Mine Minerals, Report Says

By Katie Surma

Ben Brown participates in a rally opposing a hyperscale AI data center proposed in western Palm Beach County on June 27. Credit: Kate Waxman/Inside Climate News

An AI Data Center at the Edge of the Everglades Heads to a Decisive Vote

By Kate Waxman

Bessemer Mayor Kenneth Gulley at a City Council meeting in July 2025, where he did not speak after signing a non-disclosure agreement with the Project Marvel developer. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Data Center Non-Disclosure Agreement Required City Officials to Destroy Records, Document Shows

By Lee Hedgepeth

Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s administration wants to require data center companies to pay the costs of transmission lines and substations that their projects require. Credit: Office of the Governor of Virginia

Virginia’s Governor Weighs in on Pivotal Case About Data Center Transmission Costs

By Charles Paullin

Protesters against a proposed data center development gather in Lusby, Md., on April 6. Credit: Nathan Howard/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Maryland County Adopts a Two-year Moratorium on Data Center Development

By Aman Azhar

An aerial view of the Bonner Mill Industrial Park in Bonner, Mont. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Montana County Seeks Pause on AI Data Centers After Property Owner Withdraws Support

By Mosabber Hossain

President Donald Trump talks to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday about the energy demands of AI and data centers. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Trump Wants to Fast Track AI

By Arcelia Martin

The shuttered Homer City Generating Station sits in the background of a coal cleanup site in Center Township, Pa., on June 12, 2024. Credit: Scott Lewis/The Washington Post via Getty Images

New Power Plants for Data Centers Would Significantly Increase Pennsylvania’s Climate Pollution

By Jon Hurdle

Ginny Marcille-Kerslake, an organizer for Food & Water Watch, speaks at the Pennsylvania State Capitol rotunda during a data center moratorium rally. Credit: Courtesy of Food & Water Watch

Echoes of the Past in Pennsylvania Coal Towns’ Fight Against Data Centers

By Nina Sablan

Data center cooling fans and generators operate next to a power substation in Ashburn, Va., on Nov. 12, 2025. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

FERC Order Bolsters Maryland Case Against Billions in Data Center Grid Costs

By Aman Azhar

Lowell, MA - May 12: The view down a street in Lowell, Mass., where a data center looms behind residential housing on May 12. Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Federal Regulators Tell Electric Grid Operators to Fix Their Rules on Data Centers

By Lisa Sorg, Charles Paullin

A Microsoft data center is seen under construction behind a recently constructed Amazon data center in Aldie, Va., on Jan. 20, 2023. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Microsoft’s Clean Energy Reversal Collides With Virginia’s Climate Goals

By Charles Paullin

Power lines run along a neighborhood in Philadelphia. Credit: Matthew Hatcher/AFP via Getty Images

Pennsylvania Activists Urge Lawmakers to Help Curb Soaring Electric Bills

By Jon Hurdle

Hayneville residents gather in a middle school now closed due to a declining local population for an open house with developers of a proposed hyperscale data center campus. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

On the Historic Route From Selma to Montgomery, an AI Cloud Looms

By Lee Hedgepeth

Environmental advocates and lawmakers hold a rally in support of the data center moratorium legislation on May 13 at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. Credit: Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images

New York State Gets One Step Closer to a Data Center Moratorium

By Lauren Dalban

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