HackerNoon

Data Residency Is Not a Legal Problem. It Is an Infrastructure Design Problem

Moving the database isn't enough. Here's the full residency surface — logs, ML tooling, backups, CI/CD — that regulated teams miss until it's too late.
The Texas Tribune

Abbott recommends sweeping data center regulation, including eliminating sales tax exemption

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The New York Times

The Movement to Stop Data Centers

What to know about the local backlash against the booming data center industry, the era of me-first energy and more climate news. By Claire Brown The backlash against energy-guzzling data centers has ...
The Conversation

5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole

Every internet search, streamed video and AI-generated response depends on a data center somewhere. Driven by rapid growth in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cryptocurrency, data centers ...
The Texas Tribune

An unprecedented data center boom means new challenges for Texas. Find out what’s planned near you.

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Houston Chronicle

Exclusive: Hundreds of large data centers want to join the Texas grid. ERCOT data shows top hot spots

Data centers are not new to Texas, but the projects seeking to locate here in the coming years are much bigger and more numerous than ever before, according to data shared exclusively with the Houston ...
Inc

This Map Tracks 4,000 AI Data Centers Being Built—and Reveals Where the Biggest Boom Is

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has launched a crowdsourced map that tracks more than 4,000 major AI data centers across the United States. The Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting website aims ...
Snopes.com

Will Utah data center use 16B gallons of water and span almost 3 Manhattans? What to know

In spring 2026, social media users spread a rumor that a new data center in Utah would use about 16 billion gallons of water a year and that the center would be 2.7 times the size of Manhattan. Utah ...
Tennessean

Tennessee is home to dozens of data centers, why a new one faces pushback

A proposed data center next to Nashville Zoo is facing opposition from the zoo, local officials and the broader community. Nashville Zoo has started an online petition against the data center, citing ...
Ars Technica

“We pissed off a lot of people”: Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests

One of the world’s biggest data center projects was designed to be nearly three times the size of Manhattan, stretching across multiple Utah sites. But intense local backlash in Box Elder County has ...
Futurism

Data Centers Have Become Shockingly Unpopular, Poll Finds

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WSMV

How many data centers are there in Nashville? Here's a map of where they're located.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Data centers and artificial intelligence are at the center of a growing debate across the country — are they worth the advanced technology? Data centers are what fuel AI ...