Friday, April 3, 2026

OHIO DATA CENTER BAN CLEARS BALLOT HURDLE
StateNews.org
A constitutional amendment banning facilities over 25 MW needs 413,000 signatures from 44 counties by July to reach voters.

DOE DROPS $1.9B TO REWIRE THE GRID
Mintz
The SPARK program will replace aging transmission lines with higher-capacity conductors to relieve the bottlenecks data center demand keeps making worse.

OKLAHOMA TOWN MOVES TO RECALL COUNCIL OVER GOOGLE
Tulsa Flyer
Sand Springs residents collected 1,600 signatures to oust three councilors who approved rezoning for Google's 827-acre data center.

PENNSYLVANIA'S $100B DATA CENTER FIGHT
City & State Pennsylvania
Over $100 billion in private AI investment has landed in the state in one year, but communities across PA are pushing back hard.

HARVARD, MIT: DATA CENTER OPPOSITION ISN'T ABOUT PRICE
Axios
New poll finds communities resist data centers over local environmental impact, not electricity costs. Developers have been solving the wrong problem.

PJM WATCHDOG MOVES TO BLOCK 2.6 GW DEAL
Utility Dive
The market monitor warned FERC that Talen's gas plant acquisition could funnel capacity to data centers instead of the public grid.

GOOGLE'S NEW DATA CENTER RUNS ON MASSIVE GAS PLANT
Wired
Documents reveal one of Google's new facilities will be powered by a natural gas plant emitting millions of tons of CO2 per year.

FPL PROFIT MARGINS TOP EVERY U.S. UTILITY
Inside Climate News
27 cents of every dollar became profit in 2025. Then regulators approved the largest rate hike in U.S. history.

ARIZONA'S FEUDAL UTILITY ELECTION DECIDES ENERGY FUTURE
Grist
Salt River Project still uses an 1903 one-acre-one-vote system. Renters can't vote. The result: two-thirds fossil fuel generation in the sunniest state.

TRUMP PUSHES OIL EXPORTS. HE MIGHT REGRET IT
Politico / E&E News
Flooding global markets with U.S. crude could crash prices and gut the domestic producers he's trying to help.

HOBART RESIDENTS PROTEST AMAZON DATA CENTER
National Today
Dozens rallied outside the mayor's annual address, citing water, noise, and grid strain from Amazon's proposed facility.

100 PACK TOWN HALL AGAINST NC DATA CENTER
WFMY News 2
Rural Hall residents turned out in force against a 128-acre AI facility, raising concerns from traffic to Native American artifacts.

UTAH PITCHES ITSELF AS AMERICA'S NUCLEAR HUB
Salt Lake Tribune
Gov. Cox wants Utah to mine, enrich, store, and burn nuclear fuel. The application to the feds is bigger than anyone expected.

ALABAMA MOVES TO FREEZE NEW SOLAR FARMS
The Cooldown
The anti-infrastructure backlash is spreading beyond data centers. State lawmakers want to halt solar until they study the impacts.

INDY APPROVES DC IN CONTAMINATED NEIGHBORHOOD
IPM News
Martindale-Brightwood already bears decades of lead-contaminated soil. Now it gets a data center over months of organized protest.