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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 electricity and water questions residents keep asking.
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…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Apple and Google started verifying the ages of app store users in…
Tension: Marketing teams keep reporting organic traffic and click-through numbers as the core measure of search performance, while most of what searc…
Tension: Brands assumed feeding more data to their AI and CDP vendors was pure upside, without asking what the vendor does with that data once it has…
Tension: Indiana has granted Amazon roughly $8 billion in known data center subsidies, a package Good Jobs First calls the largest ever awarded to a…
Tension: Virginia's legislature spent months fighting over whether to keep a data center sales tax exemption that saves the industry an estimated $1…
Tension: Marketers who spent years learning how to argue a flagged account back from the edge, explaining context to a human reviewer, are about to f…
Tension: Monterey Park just became the first city in the country to permanently ban data centers by popular vote, with more than 86 percent of reside…
Tension: In the two weeks before Arizona's data center tax moratorium took effect, developers filed nearly as many exemption applications as the stat…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. A Texas law banning platforms from showing targeted ads to minors…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Three states changed what counts as lawful handling of personal d…
Tension: Every platform is racing to compress execution time from days to minutes, but speed is becoming table stakes while the thing actually worth…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Seventy percent. That's the share of AI shoppers who, according t…
