From small-town Maine to Arizona, Pennsylvania and Nevada, communities across the country are hitting the brakes on data center development with moratoriums, tougher regulations and, in some cases, outright bans. Pennsylvania’s sweeping new requirements around transparency, community engagement, infrastructure costs and community benefits are particularly significant — turning many of the practices once considered industry “best practices” into formal expectations and mandates. Perhaps most notable, however, is how quickly the issue is moving beyond zoning […]
