HARRISBURG — Data centers were front and center on the House of Representatives agenda on Wednesday when two pieces of legislation were passed with large bipartisan majorities. Most well-known perhaps ...

Birmingham approved new regulations for data centers on Tuesday, with city leaders calling the addition to zoning policy among the strongest ordinances nationwide. The city council voted 6-3 to pass ...

Massachusetts lawmakers have voted to pass privacy protections that grant the state’s residents new rights over accessing and deleting their data held by big tech ...

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The regulatory package would guide the development of data centers, including a one-year halt for permits. ALBANY, New York — The New York Legislature approved a sweeping measure Thursday to crack ...

It could become the first ban of its kind in a state. It could become the first ban of its kind in a state. is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and ...

The Illinois General Assembly did not pass the POWER Act before the state’s legislative session ended earlier this week. The bill would have required data centers to source or supply renewable energy ...

House Bill 2992, signed on May 11, requires large-load customers to fund their own infrastructure costs and to notify government entities and adjacent landowners within 60 days of purchasing land.

New York may be one of the first states in the nation to pass a one-year moratorium on the permitting of data centers 20 megawatts or larger, pending Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature. State lawmakers ...

Scrub the data center ban! Desperate tech and business groups begged Gov. Kathy Hochul to pull the plug on a measure that will block new artificial intelligence data centers from coming online in New ...

A New York bill banning data center construction statewide for one year is expected to be passed by the state Legislature before their session ends this week. It's a lesser version of a bill being ...

The ban would be the state’s first. Local organizers hope to inspire other cities to adopt similar bans. Voters in a Southern California city have opened a new front in the growing resistance to the ...