Sunday, April 12, 2026

OHIO POWER FIGHT BLOWS OPEN
Cleveland.com
Once secret large-load deals become a front-page issue, every utility in the region gets dragged into the same argument.

RURAL TEXAS PUSHBACK GROWS
Chron
Small towns are starting to read hyperscale promises as a threat to land, water, and local control.

STEIN TARGETS TAX BREAKS
Raleigh News & Observer
When a governor starts attacking the incentive structure, developers lose one of their safest political shields.

KANSAS MORATORIUM DEBATE SPREADS
Wichita Eagle
The moratorium idea is becoming the default move for places that think the permitting machine is running ahead of them.

MINNESOTA BLOCKS DATA CENTER SITE
West Central Tribune
Local boards are getting more willing to say no before the land question turns into a grid question.

GOVERNORS SAY PAY YOUR OWN BILLS
Daily Herald
The cost-allocation fight is escaping regulators and landing squarely in mainstream state politics.

WATER AND POWER COSTS MOVE CENTER STAGE
South Bend Tribune
The deeper these projects move inland, the harder it gets to hide the utility footprint behind jobs rhetoric.

PENNSYLVANIA WEIGHS RECYCLED WATER FEED
PA Environment Digest
Water infrastructure is becoming a gating item, not a side note, for big AI campus proposals.

CALIFORNIA LOAD MAP KEEPS FILLING IN
San Francisco Chronicle
Once projects cluster on a map, transmission and water questions stop being hypothetical.

MAINE BAN THREAT HITS THE MARKET
Business Insider
If a state-level ban becomes real anywhere, financiers will have to price political risk very differently.

ASHVILLE CUTS A SMALLER DATA CENTER DEAL
The Business Journals
Even scaled-down approvals show developers will keep taking whatever local foothold they can get.

OHIO TOWNSHIP SLAMS DOOR FOR A YEAR
National Today
Temporary bans are turning into the country’s favorite way to force a timeout on hyperscale plans.

OHIO BALLOT PUSH TAKES SHAPE
Cleveland.com
The next escalation after zoning fights is usually a direct vote, and Ohio looks headed that way.

WISCONSIN VOTERS SEND A WARNING
WPR
Referendum politics give local opponents a template other communities can copy fast.

LOCAL BACKLASH GOES NATIONAL
WCIV
The opposition story is no longer confined to one county or one state, which is bad news for the copy-paste campus model.