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Direct Message News
The collective editorial desk of DMNews. We examine a story in three layers: the tension people feel, the noise surrounding it, and the direct message the evidence supports.
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Memphis will decide Tuesday whether to pause new data center approvals at the same meeting where it spends $3.…
The stacked agenda forces council members to accept Colossus money under a 25 percent revenue-share agreement while voting on whether to slow what comes next.
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Hill County just became the first Texas county to ban data centers, and 23 days later a…
The federal complaint argued the moratorium would knock the project out of Texas's electricity interconnection queue, a state-regulated deadline coun…
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Mount Vernon, Washington just passed a six-month data center moratorium on a 6-1 vote, f…
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…
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The child ban that checks every adult's ID
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…
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Baltimore Gas and Electric is asking Maryland regulators for a $156 million rate hike an…
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…
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East Lansing, Michigan just extended its data center moratorium with no project on the t…
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…
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Memphis will vote August 18 on a temporary freeze of all new data center permits, a paus…
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…
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New York just became the first state in the country to freeze large AI data center const…
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…
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Marietta, Georgia just approved a second data center in a 5-2 vote despite a six-month m…
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…
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Researchers who tracked 23 million tweets about 2.8 million research papers found women…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. The vocabulary separates before the numbers do. Scientists postin…