What the headline
is really saying.
Reporting, analysis, and human patterns, ordered by publication date and built to be read beyond the headline.
U.S. measles cases have hit a three-decade high while federal vaccine policy is being restructured. The two facts are connected, and the reporting shows how.
The expired U.S.-Iran memorandum, an aircraft carrier stuck at sea for nine months, and a president publicly at odds with his own commanders reveal a…
The stacked agenda forces council members to accept Colossus money under a 25 percent revenue-share agreement while voting on whether to slow what co…
The federal complaint argued the moratorium would knock the project out of Texas's electricity interconnection queue, a state-regulated deadline coun…
The Mount Vernon City Council voted 6-1 on Aug. 12 for a six-month data center moratorium, joining Skagit County, La Conner, Seattle, and Spokane in…
Iowa's proposed ban on social media for minors would, by the mechanics of enforcement, require every adult in the state to verify their identity at t…
Baltimore Gas and Electric is asking Maryland regulators for a $156 million electric rate increase that would add about $8 a month to bills and lift…
East Lansing's City Council voted unanimously on August 12 to extend its data center moratorium, giving a city work group more time to finalize zonin…
The Memphis City Council will vote Aug. 18 on a temporary moratorium that would pause zoning, land use, and building permits for new data center deve…
New York's one-year moratorium on data centers of 50 megawatts or more is the first successful statewide freeze in the country, and Governor Hochul i…
Marietta's council approved rezoning for an 11-acre, 18-megawatt data center on Powers Ferry Place in a 5-2 vote, despite a six-month moratorium and…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. The vocabulary separates before the numbers do. Scientists postin…
Volusia County has directed staff to draft a six-month pause on AI data centers while Edgewater moves a permanent ban to the November ballot, setting…
Ohio's sales tax exemption for data center equipment cost the state nearly $1.6 billion last year. Governor DeWine has frozen it through the end of h…
Fort Worth's City Council voted unanimously to begin a 90-day data center moratorium set to take effect Feb. 16, 2027, alongside an immediate rule re…
Douglas County commissioners unanimously approved a $19 million, 35-year business personal property tax rebate for a Flexential data center in Parker…
