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Zoning In

Zoning In

As temperatures continue to rise, so does the scrutiny surrounding the energy, water, and regulatory impacts of data center growth across North America. From Virginia’s AI-fueled power crunch to a proposed megacenter in Delaware that would consume nearly twice the electricity of all the state’s homes, this week’s Zoning In dives into a wave of resistance, policy shifts, and big-picture questions. With moratoriums mounting, nuclear reactors gaining traction, and transparency being tested, the data center […]

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Zoning In

Zoning In

This week’s update reveals the push-pull between data center growth and public oversight across the U.S. In Kentucky, Oldham County’s planning board is building a framework to regulate data centers more tightly. At the same time, West Virginia just passed a law that bypasses local zoning altogether to attract more projects. Meanwhile, power constraints in Pennsylvania have halted a long-rumored AWS development, and in Virginia, the battle continues over who should pay for infrastructure serving […]

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Zoning In

Zoning In

This week’s headlines spotlight a growing national reckoning over the power, land, and local control issues tied to the explosive growth of AI-fueled data centers. In Washington, federal regulators rejected Amazon and Talen Energy’s request to revisit a ruling that blocks a co-located data center from ramping up power use at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant—further signaling increased scrutiny of behind-the-meter energy arrangements. At the state level, Arizona’s utility regulators launched a formal review of grid […]

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