Planning Director Chad Bowman this week introduced to the Planning Commission a proposed zoning text amendment regulating controversial data centers if they want to locate in Decatur. Bowman ...

The Eden Prairie City Council unanimously approved a draft ordinance regulating data centers at its June 16 meeting, as data centers become more prevalent in Twin Cities suburbs. The Planning ...

Lexington council asked for new data center regulations to be drafted earlier this month, at the same time that officials put ...

The Columbia City Council has defined data centers and restricted their construction to general industrial zones. Developers must now obtain a conditional use permit from the city to build a data ...

The explosion of proposed data centers across Illinois has sparked a fierce, bipartisan backlash and even legislation to curb the long-lasting effects on people’s air quality, water quality, and ...

Westfield's Planning Board recommended a 12-month moratorium on new data centers to study environmental and health impacts.

Future data centers are banned in the city of Holyoke after the City Council voted 9-4 in favor of a zoning ordinance ...

The single most dramatic shift in political opinion over the past six months has been the backlash against data centers. I first noticed the change last autumn while browsing a post from the Facebook ...

Ames leaders get first detailed look at proposed LightEdge data center as debate grows ...

Multiple reports show the data centers used to store, train and operate AI models use significant amounts of energy and water, with a rippling impact on the environment and public health. According to ...

Editor's note: This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions of orbital data centers. Although the idea of putting data ...