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… In June, the sponsor behind a controversial data center proposal in Citrus County withdrew its plan to build an 800-acre data center in the community after the county commission approved a one-year moratorium on rezoning applications for data centers. “Unfortunately, local moratoriums on data cente… …
… Link: Amazon employees ask Seattle to put the brakes on new data centers | https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/945809/amazon-employees-seattle-data-center-moratorium | The Verge
“The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center anywhere near our town or any others for that matter ,” Nelson says. …
… Here are a few recent articles about the projects: The Wall Street Journal: America’s Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule CNBC: Stargate live updates: OpenAI’s Altman says ‘people are right to be anxious’ about AI WFLA News Channel 8: Lakeland AI data center proposal sparks online …
… The data center is expected to come online in 2028. Link: Meta Announces New Strategic Venture With BlackRock to Develop Data Center in El Paso | https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/meta-announces-new-venture-with-blackrock-to-develop-data-center-in-el-paso/ | Meta Newsroom
… Image: On Monday SpaceX revealed a draft of its AI data center satellite. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/ai1-spacex.jpeg?quality=90&strip=all
… Hochul is also asking DPS to consider creating a way for data centers to invest in the state’s energy infrastructure, and charges the state’s development arm with coming up with a framework to help local communities negotiate benefits when data centers try to come to town. …
… The Hawesville, KY data center will come online with an “initial capacity” in the second half of 2027 before ramping up to 401 megawatts of power delivery in 2028. …
… Many companies, including Meta and Google, have started building their own power plants, turning to gas, coal, and other non-renewable energy sources as the demands of AI data centers have skyrocketed. …
… The pressure on not building these data centers is only going to go up in weird ways. In Alabama, there’s a state senator that proposed blocking solar build-outs as a way to reduce data center interest in his state. That’s a weird outcome. What happens if we can’t build more data centers? …