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Aurora's City Council voted 6-5 to reject a six-month moratorium on new data center construction, with the mayor casting the tiebreaking vote. Staff now have 35 days to draft water and zoning rules while approvals stay…
Plain City Village Council enacted a one-year moratorium on new data center development, joining a growing list of small Ohio jurisdictions pausing h…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Since August 1, a data broker registered in California has been r…
Florida's Amendment 3 would exempt up to $250,000 of a primary home's value from non-school property taxes, costing local governments a projected $8…
Ohio's data center sales tax exemption requires only $1.5 million in annual payroll to qualify, and the program cost the state $1.6 billion last year…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Aqua 1 Foundation registered its website on May 28, 2025. Four we…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Section 1202 of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act is one sente…
Aurora's City Council rejected a proposed six-month moratorium on new data center development, opting instead to draft zoning and water-use regulatio…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Merck stopped producing standalone measles, mumps and rubella vac…
Aurora's City Council voted 6-5 to reject a six-month moratorium on new data center construction, with the mayor breaking the tie. Instead, staff has…
Tucson's 6-1 vote adopts one of Arizona's strictest data center zoning frameworks, requiring council approval for any facility above 20 MW and 25,000…
Tucson's council voted 6-1 to adopt one of the Southwest's strictest data center zoning frameworks, one year after killing the Project Blue proposal…
Prichard, Alabama is weighing a $93 million Edged data center proposal in a city already worn down by fiscal strain — and the vote will turn on the e…
Clackamas County commissioners are weighing a data center moratorium weeks after the Oregon PUC approved a 29.7% rate hike for large industrial custo…
Fulton County commissioners voted unanimously to oppose new data center tax breaks the same week Microsoft moved to unwind its existing incentives on…
Amherst's zoning board rejected a use variance for a 45-megawatt data center on the Nordson campus, killing the Illinois developer's plan unless it a…
