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Bank of New York Mellon has gained access to advanced cybersecurity models from OpenAI and Anthropic.from headline
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Where data center builds face opposition, setbacks, or energy constraints — and where governments roll out the welcome mat.
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This Minnesota bill modifies existing rules and requirements that govern how data centers are built and operated in the state. The changes could affect where data centers can be located, how they interact with local communities, and the economic conditions surrounding their development.
This Georgia bill prohibits health insurance companies from using artificial intelligence alone to make coverage decisions for healthcare services. Human review must be part of any such decision-making process.
This Nebraska bill establishes new rules for large electricity customers like data centers and crypto miners, addressing how they connect to and impact the power grid. It also covers energy storage regulation, taxation, and eminent domain powers related to energy storage resources.
This bill establishes privacy protections for agricultural data and sets safety requirements for conversational AI systems in Nebraska. It creates rules around how AI chatbots and similar tools must operate, likely including disclosure and transparency obligations.
A single hyperscale campus (100 MW+) can use as much power as a small city, and the water-cooled ones can draw about as much water too. Per-query energy has fallen sharply over the last decade, and the operators buy more renewable power than any other industry. The totals still climb, mostly because everyone keeps asking the models to do more.
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New Carlisle, IN | 2,200 | Indiana | Under construction | |||
Project Rainier — Project Rainier is AWS's 1,200-acre New Carlisle campus purpose-built for Anthropic, hosting ~500,000 Trainium2 chips by October 2025 and targeting over one million by year-end. Seven of 30 buildings are live; full 2.2 GW buildout plus a $15B expansion makes Indiana the largest single-state AWS investment to date.
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Madison County, MS | 1,500 | Mississippi | Under construction | |||
Project Rainier Madison — AWS's two Madison County industrial parks demand energy equivalent to ~700,000 homes, and Entergy Mississippi is building new generation to serve them. Total AWS Mississippi buildout now sits at ~$25B across 1,700 acres — $10B initial, $11B expansion, and a separate $1B Hinds County site — anchoring the state's 'Digital Delta' push.
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5502 Spinks Rd, Abilene, TX 79601 | 1,200 | Texas | Under construction | |||
Stargate Abilene — Oracle / OpenAI's flagship AI training campus. As of April 2026 only two buildings are live (~200 MW gross, ~130 MW critical IT), with a third expected online soon. Full build planned at 1.2 GW+ across eight buildings through 2026–2027. | ||||||
6000 Technology Blvd, Sandston, VA 23150 | 854 | Virginia | Operational | |||
QTS Richmond is a 15-building campus with an estimated total IT power over 650 MW. | ||||||
4800 90th St, Mount Pleasant, WI 53403 | 555 | Wisconsin | Operational | |||
Microsoft Fairwater Wisconsin is set to be the tech giant’s most powerful data center yet. | ||||||
New Albany, OH | 531 | Ohio | Under construction | |||
Meta Prometheus — Meta's AI supercluster in the New Albany Business Park, using a mix of weatherproof tents and traditional buildings to stand up capacity faster. Sits alongside Google's much older New Albany campus in the same park.
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1435 Hwy 54 W, Fayetteville, GA 30214 | 433 | Georgia | Operational | |||
Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta is a QTS-built data center with Microsoft as a tenant, possibly for the purpose of providing compute to OpenAI. | ||||||
3231 Riverport Rd, Memphis, TN 38109 | 425 | Tennessee | Operational | |||
xAI Colossus 1 was converted from a factory into a data center in 2024. | ||||||
1101 Beech Rd SW, New Albany, OH 43054 | 407 | Ohio | Operational | |||
Google’s New Albany data center is one of several data centers in the New Albany Business Park. | ||||||
Somerset, NY | 360 | New York | Under construction | |||
Residents near the Somerset facility report sustained cooling-fan noise as TeraWulf converts a former coal plant into an AI/HPC campus. CB-4 and CB-5 energization is slated for H2 2026.
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5420 Tulane Rd, Memphis, TN 38109 | 302 | Tennessee | Operational | |||
xAI Colossus 2 is the follow-up to Colossus 1. | ||||||
14250 W Broadway Rd, Goodyear, AZ 85338 | 263 | Arizona | Operational | |||
The Microsoft Goodyear campus spans six years of construction and operations. | ||||||
Cost and compute appear only when publicly disclosed. 62 of 283 sites (22%) have an announced investment figure — most colocation and proposed builds are never reported.
The legislators shaping AI and data-centre policy — and how their votes stack up against what they said they believed.
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Bank of New York Mellon has gained access to advanced cybersecurity models from OpenAI and Anthropic.from headline
Anthropic has announced plans for a major expansion in the United Kingdom following OpenAI's establishment of its first permanent office in London.from headline
OpenAI is focusing its efforts on business users as it competes with rival AI company Anthropic.from headline
Maine's state legislature has enacted a moratorium on data center development, marking the first such statewide ban in the United States.from headline
A federal appeals court panel refused to block the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic AI but agreed to expedite oral arguments scheduled for May 19, while a separate federal district court judge had previously granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction in a related case. The ruling does not address the legal merits of whether the blacklisting violates the First Amendment or constitutes an unlawful supply-chain designation.
Port Washington, Wisconsin approved a referendum on April 11, 2026, requiring voter approval for tax benefits exceeding $10 million for large data center projects, marking the nation's first such measure. The referendum passed with 66 percent support but is facing a lawsuit from a local business group citing concerns about regional investment impacts.
Detroit City Council passed a resolution in March calling for a two-year moratorium on data center permits, and Councilman Scott Benson has now convened a working group including city departments, DTE Energy, unions, and environmental advocates to develop comprehensive zoning policies by December 31. The working group will assess potential data center impacts on infrastructure, environment, and the community while evaluating how peer cities have addressed similar developments.
Maine has enacted legislation establishing a moratorium on large data centers, marking the first such statewide prohibition in the United States.from headline
Sunbury City Council has enacted a moratorium on data center construction in the municipality.from headline
Sunbury City Council has enacted a temporary moratorium on data center development through January that affects a planned Amazon project in the area.from headline
Maine's legislature has passed the first moratorium on AI data centers.from headline
Maine lawmakers enacted a one-year moratorium on new data center development in response to the state's data center expansion.from headline