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Delaware House passes bills to protect residents from data center energy costs
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (242+ words) DELAWARE - Two bills have been passed in the Delaware House that lawmakers say will protect energy reliability while ensuring the costs associated with large energy-use facilities, like data centers, are not passed onto residents and small businesses. Both bills are…...
Delaware bill aims to up charges on companies for cell phone poles, more
3+ mon, 14+ hour ago (275+ words) The fifth measure in a new rotation of bills attempting to address fallout from Delaware’s first reassessment in decades was the last to clear committee on June 11. Backed by Sen. Dan Cruce, the bill would remove the cap on how…...
North Carolina lawmakers target data center growth
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (582+ words) RALEIGH - North Carolina House lawmakers are moving quickly to pass a bill placing restrictions and regulations on data centers, mandating more nuclear power, and speeding up the permitting process for new plants. Reps. Matthew Winslow (R-Franklin) and Dean Arp (R-Union)…...
Data Centers Are Making North Carolina Hotter, New Study Reveals
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (338+ words) Your summer electric bill keeps climbing, and now researchers know one reason why. A new University of Cambridge study analyzing satellite data from 2004 to 2024 found that AI-focused data centers create significant heat islands, raising local land surface temperatures an average…...
How much water do data centers use in North Carolina? Drought raises new concerns
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (846+ words) As Raleigh prepares to implement water restrictions on Monday amid the ongoing drought, attention is turning to how much water large data centers could use and how that demand is managed during dry periods. The city will activate Stage 1 water-use…...
The hidden costs of North Carolina’s data center boom
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (1516+ words) The windowless buildings rising across North Carolina look more like warehouses than engines of climate change. Across the state, proposals for hyperscale data centers built to support artificial intelligence and cloud computing are driving unprecedented demand for electricity and water....
Proposed Delaware City data center hits major setback from environmental regulators
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (989+ words) Environmental regulators in Delaware say the proposed data center, known as Project Washington, would be one of the state’s top polluters. A proposed 1.2-gigawatt data center in Delaware City hit a roadblock this week when environmental regulators in Delaware said…...
North Carolina mulls how to manage power demand from data centers
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (1271+ words) From AI to Facebook to Google Maps, the nation’s demand for computing power is growing, with households in the U.S. now averaging a whopping 21 devices — think smartphones, TVs, and thermostats — all connected to the internet. That was one of many…...
Delaware eyes limits on data centers as megaproject looms
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (197+ words) By Adam Aton | 10/02/2025 06:22 AM EDT A data center development known as Project Washington could use twice as much electricity as is consumed by every home in the state. State House Speaker Melissa Minor-Brown listens during a June session of the…...