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Marietta, Georgia just approved a second data center in a 5-2 vote despite a six-month moratorium the council passed last month, because the 18-megawatt application was filed before the freeze took effect

Researchers who tracked 23 million tweets about 2.8 million research papers found women were 28 percent less likely than men to promote their own work on Twitter, and the gap grew widest among the most accomplished women at the most prestigious institutions

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Volusia County, Florida just directed staff to draft a six-month moratorium on AI data centers while Edgewater inside the same county moved a permanent voter ban to the November ballot, splitting one county between a proposed study pause and a possible citizen shutdown

Ohio’s data center sales tax exemption cost the state nearly $1.6 billion last year, and Governor DeWine has now frozen it through the end of his term, leaving the next governor to decide whether taxpayers ever see a return

Fort Worth now requires proof of state grid approval before data centers can file

Douglas County, Colorado just approved a $19 million tax rebate for a Parker data center that will create 16 jobs, meaning county taxpayers are subsidizing each position at more than $1.1 million over the 35-year deal

Fort Worth’s city council just voted unanimously to begin the data center moratorium process, but the city’s timeline puts its possible start on February 16, 2027, and zoning applications filed before then remain outside it

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Aurora, Colorado just rejected a six-month data center moratorium on a 6-5 tiebreaker from the mayor, becoming the only major Front Range city to keep approvals open while nearly every neighbor — Denver, Boulder County, Broomfield, Jefferson County — has already hit pause

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Plain City, Ohio just paused all new data center development for a full year, joining a growing list of small Ohio villages that decided the incentives from Columbus are moving faster than local water and power can absorb

California’s single deletion request now reaches more than 600 registered data brokers at once, and the best-known independent test of removal methods found that even manual opt-out, the top performer in that study, cleared only about 70 percent of the profiles researchers had found

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