Artificial Intelligence & Data Centers

Michigan Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Repeal Data Center Tax Incentives

The tax breaks, passed in late 2024, have produced both a flurry of data center projects and surging opposition across the political spectrum as communities fear skyrocketing electric and water bills, pollution and hulking complexes on former farmland.

By Tom Perkins

Virginia Regulators Weigh Expanded Use of Data Center’s Polluting Generators 

By Charles Paullin

How Batteries Could Play a Role in Data Center Rollouts

By Arcelia Martin

Environmental Groups Demand a Nationwide Freeze on Data Center Construction

By Lauren Dalban

Google Data Centers Will Bring Nuclear Power Back To Tornado Country

By Anika Jane Beamer

Virginia Regulators Approve First New Gas Plant Since Passage of Clean Economy Act

By Charles Paullin

Alabama Regulators Approve Two-Year Electric Rate Freeze and Two Solar Projects for a Meta Inc. Data Center

By Dennis Pillion

Members of America’s Largest Power Grid Can’t Agree on How to Power Data Centers

By Rambo Talabong

Maine’s First Major Data Center Project Touts Green Innovation

By Ryan Krugman

County Planning Commission in Virginia Delays Vote Again on Proposed Gas Plant That Aims to Link to PJM Grid

By Charles Paullin

Alabama Power Seeks to Delay Rate Hike for New Gas Plant Amid Outcry

By Dennis Pillion

An Alabama City Council Approves Rezoning for a Massive Data Center, Dividing a Community

By Lee Hedgepeth

A Proposed Alabama Data Center Faces New Hurdles: A ‘Road to Nowhere’ and the Birmingham Darter

By Lee Hedgepeth, Dennis Pillion

A New Unifying Issue: Just About Everyone Hates Data Centers

By Dan Gearino

International Energy Report Projects a Slower Transition to Renewables, but Oil Could Still Peak This Decade

By Blanca Begert

Data Centers’ Use of Diesel Generators for Backup Power Is Commonplace—and Problematic

By Arcelia Martin

‘It’s Not Too Late’: New Cornell Study Maps the Environmental Cost of AI and How Policy Could Limit the Damage

By Carl David Goette-Luciak

A Data Center Could Be Coming to an Upstate New York Town, and Residents Are Speaking Out

By Lauren Dalban

Illinois General Assembly Passes Energy Reform Act Aiming to Reduce Rates and Reach Clean Energy Goals

By Sarah Mattalian