AI mega data centers are being announced at a record pace, but many projects may stall or collapse due to power, permitting, financing, and backlash.

Neighbors opposed to a Franklin Township data center proposal have launched a website, Facebook page and online petition; posted yard signs; and voiced opposition at public meetings. (IBJ photo/Chad ...

Even as artificial intelligence drives demand for data center capacity to unprecedented heights, investors say AI-only data center sites and leases to AI-specific tenants pose the greatest risk in the ...

WKAR News is diving deep on data centers this week as multiple proposed projects across the state face public pushback. Michigan State University professor Doug Bessette’s research focuses on finding ...

A conceptual aerial rendering of plans for a Metrobloks data center in Martindale-Brightwood’s former Sherman Drive In site. (provided by the City of Indianapolis) Like people in many communities ...

Across the country, data center demand and construction have been skyrocketing throughout 2025. And so has local opposition to those projects. From Indiana (where a developer withdrew its application ...

Arkansas is on track to see construction of three proposed data center projects in the next year valued at a combined $12 billion. Plans for the huge centers, which are not yet set in stone, come as ...

We Energies has filed a flurry of applications to spend more than $5.5 billion for new energy projects to meet Wisconsin's rising energy demand, largely fueled by data center projects. The utility ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Communities across the area are grappling with plans for massive hyperscale data centers to power artificial intelligence and other computing technologies. Proposals backed by Big Tech ...

Unlike conventional structures, the entirety of the building—apart from glass-framed cutouts along its frontage—will be windowless. This programmatic requirement enhances security for the data suite ...