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Aurora's City Council voted 6-5 Monday night to reject a proposal that would have paused new data-center applications, with Mayor Mike Coffman casting the tiebreaking vote.
The Tucson City Council voted 6-1 on August 5, 2026, to adopt new regulations for large-scale data centers.
The new ordinance, which takes effect September 4, 2026, does not permit data centers anywhere in the city by right.
The developer's Alabama plans have landed in a city already exhausted by decades of water system failures, budget crises, and depopulation.
Clackamas County commissioners are considering their moratorium in that legal environment — not in a vacuum.
Develop Fulton told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution it is coordinating with the company on how to undo the deals.
Cervenka Development Partners has 30 days to appeal to Lorain County Common Pleas Court.
Three other states passed laws built on the same basic idea.
The Direct Message: Traffic is the wrong KPI now.
The Direct Message: Owning the record isn't the same as controlling the value it generates.
Less attention has gone to a structural detail that matters more: the exemption underneath all of it runs for up to 50 years.
The Direct Message: Virginia didn't decide whether data centers should keep their tax break.
The company already relies on AI for roughly 50% of content and ad review decisions across Facebook, Instagram, and its other platforms.
The Direct Message: An 86 percent landslide is not really a referendum on one data center.
A policy designed to pump the brakes on new tax breaks for data centers instead triggered a stampede to grab the last ones available.
A Texas law banning platforms from showing targeted ads to minors lasted less than two years without ever being enforced.
