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Local opposition stalled at least 45 US data center projects worth about $68 billion in the second quarter of 2026, Data Center Watch says. For developers, where a campus can be built is now a cost and schedule risk in its own right.
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New Jersey's utilities board warned power bills could rise up to 20% from June 1, with data centers a key driver. Utilities elsewhere are building the same demand into their pricing, so energy belongs among the costs an operator should expect to climb.
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Google flies one server's worth of TPUs on 1 kilowatt of solar power on Oct. 1, its first hardware test for orbital AI data centers. The flight tests chip survival and cooling while SpaceX's and Blue Origin's far larger constellations still wait on FCC review.
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The turbines feeding SpaceXAI's Colossus 2 went in under a Mississippi rule that asks whether equipment is portable rather than what it emits, which is why the fight is over a legal category and not over anyone's measurements.
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Atomic Canyon's NIVA is now in use across North American reactors. The instructive part is the training corpus, not the chat window.
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