Archbald, a borough of 7,500 residents in the Lackawanna Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania, has received proposals for multiple data centers covering 14% of its area. Law professor and executive director of Penn State’s Center for Energy Law and Policy has been researching local responses to data center proposals across Pennsylvania. He explains the pros and cons of big data centers.
The Army got more than 200 responses to an open-ended call for ideas on how it could upgrade its infrastructure. There are proposals to build data centers on four Army installations, including Fort Bliss, Texas, Dugway Proving Ground, Utah and Fort Bragg, N.C. The proposals must include net-zero water usage and a power plan that does not draw on the local energy grid.
Cloverleaf Infrastructure held an open house in Hayneville, Alabama, last week to answer questions about Project Red Clay, a proposed hyperscale data center campus in rural Lowndes County. Many residents are skeptical about the project's economic, environmental and health impacts. Poverty in the Black Belt is widespread and many people live below the poverty line.
There are 11,600 AI data centres active worldwide as of June 2026. Most of them are located in the United States, followed by Europe with more than 4,300, and Asia with over 10,000. They consume a lot of energy, water and electricity.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX is going public Friday with a target valuation above $1.75 trillion. The move will make Musk, already the richest man in the world, vastly wealthier. The community hosting xAI's data centers in Memphis is demanding accountability from the company's use of polluting gas turbines.
Meta has launched America’s Workforce Academy, a $115 million initiative to provide free skilled-trades training and guaranteed job opportunities on data center construction projects. The program will launch in Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio and Texas this year. Participants will earn National Center for Construction Education and Research credentials.
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Farmer Mr. Bland donated his land in 1999 to the Texas Parks and Recreation Foundation for a symbolic ten dollars. The city of Taylor sold the land to the developer Blueprint in 2025 for ten million dollars (8.65 million euros). The developer wants to build a data center on the site 150 meters from Pamela Griffin's house. She is fighting against the construction project on the basis of the donation agreement.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired xAI and is planning a constellation of space-based data centers. Google announced Project Suncatcher in partnership with Planet, planning to launch two satellites equipped with Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) AI chips by early 2027. Starcloud has already filed a proposal with the Federal Communications Commission for an 88,000-satellite constellation for orbital data centers, each housing a rack or multiple racks of AI-grade GPUs. The cost to launch and run a GPU in space for a year is much higher than the same feat in a terrestrial data center.