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Marietta, Georgia just approved a second data center in a 5-2 vote despite a six-month moratorium the council…
On Wednesday night, Aug. 12, the same council voted 5-2 to approve a data center.
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Volusia County, Florida just directed staff to draft a six-month moratorium on AI data…
Two governments inside Volusia County are taking different paths toward regulating data centers.
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Ohio’s data center sales tax exemption cost the state nearly $1.6 billion last…
The decision about whether to renew, reshape, or kill the exemption lands on whoever wins in November.
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Fort Worth now requires proof of state grid approval before data centers can file
The rule applies to applications the city receives after that meeting.
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Douglas County, Colorado just approved a $19 million tax rebate for a Parker data…
The county’s official staff report and attached agreement estimate the county rebates at $19,323,400 over 35 years.
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Fort Worth’s city council just voted unanimously to begin the data center…
KERA reported that the vote was the first move toward a moratorium, not the final adoption of one.
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Aurora, Colorado just rejected a six-month data center moratorium on a 6-5 tiebreaker…
Aurora's City Council voted 6-5 on Monday night to reject a moratorium on new data center construction, with the mayor casting the tiebreaking vote.
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Plain City, Ohio just paused all new data center development for a full year, joining a…
What Plain City is really doing is exposing a coordination failure.
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California’s single deletion request now reaches more than 600 registered data…
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Florida’s Amendment 3 would strip $8.78 billion a year from cities and counties…
The exemption would rise to $150,000 of assessed value in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028.
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Ohio’s data center tax break requires only $1.5 million in annual payroll to…
Governor Mike DeWine paused new exemption approvals in May 2026 and confirmed on August 6 that the freeze will hold through the end of his term.
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World Liberty Financial’s largest disclosed investment came from a man under an…
Aqua 1 Foundation registered its website on May 28, 2025.
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Congress passed its biggest housing affordability bill in decades this summer by an…
Eleven titles earlier, Section 208 authorizes $200 million a year for five years for the law's flagship Innovation Fund.
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Aurora rejected a moratorium, but it did not reject the six-month proposal named in the…
Aurora City Council voted 7-4 on August 10, 2026, to direct staff to develop data-center-specific regulations.
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Trump signs executive order to cut the recommended childhood vaccine count, a move…
Merck stopped producing standalone measles, mumps and rubella vaccines in 2009.