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Raleigh leaders voted to put a pause on developing new, larger data centers for six months, as community advocates push for a 32-month pause to study the impacts and give residents more say.

Americans are worried AI data centers will raise their electricity bills. Congress has come up with a plan to protect ratepayers, but there’s no easy way to find out what AI is costing them.

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said the company has stopped using nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) in its dealings with government agencies as it seeks approval to build new data centers.

On Friday, Amazon committed to donating more than $1 billion over the next five years to communities neighboring data centers.

Amazon’s cloud computing division on Friday announced a new effort to temper opposition to data centers in some U.S. communities, while saying the U.S. “can’t afford to lose” the race to dominate artificial intelligence globally. 

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) recently released a proposed Tentative Interim Amendment (TIA) to the 2020, 2023, and 2026 editions of the National Electrical Code (NEC). The TIA was submitted by Andrew Browne, Intertek, and has a comment closing date of October 30, 2026. 

Residents of a small community in the Poconos are being enticed with the offer of a $10,000 payment — no strings attached — to throw their support behind a developer’s plan for a massive data center campus that has faced staunch opposition in Luzerne County.

MONTEVALLO, Ala. (WBMA) — Montevallo is working to establish new zoning rules for data centers before a developer ever proposes building one in the city.

Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) is facing growing scrutiny over the financing of its AI infrastructure after about $18 billion of loans tied to its Project Jupiter data center in New Mexico were quoted at 89 to 91 cents on the dollar, according to the Financial Times, as