Saronic, an autonomous shipbuilding company, announced its $3.2 billion Port Alpha project will be built in Brownsville, Texas, instead of Solano County, California, creating 10,000 permanent jobs and…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has imposed a first-of-its-kind data center moratorium, using executive power to halt AI infrastructure expansion while keeping legislative negotiations open, a move tha…
Texas faces an unprecedented data center boom, with ERCOT receiving 519 requests to connect large electricity users in the last two years—compared to 24 the year before—totaling an estimated 438,595 m…
A US heatwave is straining the power grid and water supplies, intensifying concerns over the rapid expansion of AI data centers that consume vast amounts of electricity and water. Lawmakers across the…
Governor Greg Abbott awarded a $24.2 million Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund grant to FormFactor Inc. for a new probe card manufacturing facility in Farmers Branch, Texas. The company will invest …
Utah State Senate President J. Stuart Adams lost his primary election after backing a data center project opposed by 60% of voters, signaling growing bipartisan backlash against AI data centers drivin…
The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved ERCOT's first 'Batch Zero' process to group large electricity connection requests of 75 MW or more into a single study, as ERCOT tracks over 438,000 MW …
Two small-town Texas mayors, Jim Jaska of Ross and Charles Wilson of Lacy Lakeview, are divided over a proposed $10 billion AI data center by Infrakey, as Lacy Lakeview moves to annex the site and col…