What the headline
is really saying.
Reporting, analysis, and human patterns, ordered by publication date and built to be read beyond the headline.
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Section 1202 of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act is one sentence long: no additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to car…
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…
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…
