Two residents of a riverside hamlet have to form a case, find lawyers and raise up to A$50,000 inside a fortnight to challenge an approval the council says it had no grounds to refuse.
12h ago
Commissioners in coastal Georgia sat through a Saturday work session on Project Camellia while residents protested outside — and the decision that governs the project's power is not theirs to make.
12h ago
The trigger was a 600 MW campus the county rejected. The threshold is low enough to catch ordinary colocation, and Florida law lets the end user stay anonymous for a year, so commissioners voted on a load they cannot attribute to a buyer.
2d ago
Louisiana's total reaches $18bn and 750 jobs across three campuses — with dollars standing in for the only number that describes a data centre.
Aug 19, 2026
A 956 billion won order for reciprocating generators — the company's largest ever. Someone is buying a power plant rather than waiting in an interconnection queue.
Aug 10, 2026
A 7.65 GW gas plant in West Texas, cleared to emit 33 million tons of CO2 a year. The permit was issued in January; Amazon's name surfaced last week.
Aug 9, 2026
A $3.2bn gas plant in Texas, paid for almost entirely through capacity payments rather than electricity sold. Delivery is late 2029 and the customer is unnamed.
Aug 9, 2026
Mississippi regulators and SpaceX signed an agreed order covering the unpermitted turbines running Colossus. They come out over the next year, and a permanent 1.2-gigawatt plant replaces them.
Aug 1, 2026
Governor Kathy Hochul's Executive Order 62 pauses permits for data centers of 50 megawatts or more for up to a year while the state studies their strain on power, water and ratepayers — the first statewide brake of its kind in the US.
Jul 15, 2026
A 1-gigawatt campus in Sturgeon County carries a CA$13 billion price tag and water-free cooling, becoming Meta's 33rd data center as its AI compute buildout widens.
Jul 12, 2026
The energy-first data-center builder supplying Meta and Oracle may triple its valuation to about $30 billion in nine months — the clearest mark yet of how hot AI-infrastructure capital has run.
Jul 7, 2026
The utility is taking a stake in US developer Joulent to build generation next to data centers, sidestepping the grid queues that now delay AI buildouts.
Jul 5, 2026
