Current coverage of data center siting fights, ratepayer proceedings, surveillance technology, and nonprofit funding disclosure. Every factual claim on these pages links to a news report, a court filing, or an official government record.
Texts, mailers, yard signs, legal appeals, and television buys have turned local data center fights into six- and seven-figure contests. We priced the tools, traced the money through four live disputes, and weighed what communities give up when they win — labeling every figure by who produced it.
A widely cited tracker says organized opposition to data centers more than doubled since December 2025, disrupting roughly $130 billion in projects. Reporting confirms the tracker is run by an AI intelligence firm that does not disclose who pays for it.
New York issued the first statewide moratorium, Montgomery County adopted an 18-month pause, and roughly a third of Indiana counties have moved to restrict. A roundup of the official record, with links to the orders and votes.
Four tax-exempt transparency bills cleared the House Ways and Means Committee on July 24, 2026, all on near-party-line votes. We support the disclosure principle and say plainly why the vote margins are a problem for it.
Dozens of cities have cancelled or deactivated automated license plate reader contracts. A state audit found violations, two members of Congress asked the FTC to investigate, one state passed the strongest ALPR law in the country, and the courts are split.
FERC opened dockets across six grid regions, five state consumer advocates filed jointly, and Wisconsin, Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas moved on large-load tariffs. The cost-allocation fight is where this is actually being settled.
A document obtained by Inside Climate News shows the NDA around a Bessemer, Alabama data center project required city officials to destroy records. We publish this even though it cuts against the industry, because that is what a watchdog does.
A coalition of more than 520 organizations across 48 states called for a nationwide moratorium on AI data centers. We link the letter in full and ask every signatory to disclose its major funders — a question we also put to the industry and to ourselves.
A Virginia appeals court blocked the Prince William Digital Gateway over defective public notice, and supervisors rejected a 2,000-acre proposal 8-0. Both outcomes are procedural, and that is the lesson.
A reposted roundup of public commitments from the White House ratepayer pledge, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, OpenAI, and Entergy. Reposting is not endorsement; it is a record for residents to measure performance against.
The NAACP and Earthjustice sued xAI over gas turbines powering a data center near Memphis, and the Justice Department later moved against the suit. A summary of the litigation record, with every allegation identified as an allegation.