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Could a data center be coming to Morningside?

Sioux City Journal 18 Jan 2026
City staff has worked with MidAmerican Energy and the Iowa Economic Development Authority to identify several properties that provide opportunities for data center development ... .
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Ohio bet big on data centers; now it needs the power

Cleveland 18 Jan 2026
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The race to power artificial intelligence is on, and tech giants like Google, Meta and Microsoft are placing multibillion-dollar bets on nuclear energy ....
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Microsoft calls on Big Tech to pick up data center tab

Lincoln Journal Star 18 Jan 2026
It won't be easy for Big Tech companies to win the hearts and minds of Americans who are angered about massive artificial intelligence data centers sprouting up in their neighborhoods, straining electricity grids and drawing on local reservoirs ... .
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Aon expands data center insurance program to $2.5B

Web Hosting Talk 18 Jan 2026
Introduced in 2025, the Data Center Lifecycle Insurance Program was developed to address a long-standing challenge in the data center market ... The expansion comes as data centers scale rapidly to ...
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CyrusOne, Eolian accelerate 200MW data center development in Texas

Web Hosting Talk 18 Jan 2026
The project, known as DFW7, is currently under construction and is designed to deliver up to 200 megawatts of data center capacity to meet rising demand from hyperscale cloud providers and large enterprise customers.
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Growing Focus on Data Centers | OAS Episode 256 (NCSL - National Conference of State Legislatures)

Public Technologies 18 Jan 2026
On this episode, we discuss data centers and their effect on the energy system with Dan Diorio, vice president for state policy at the Data Center Coalition, a trade group for the data center ...
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Blackstone commits �4 Billion to German AI data center

Web Hosting Talk 18 Jan 2026
The new datacenter development in Germany underlines the growing strategic importance of European data center capacity as demand accelerates for cloud computing and artificial intelligence workloads.
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US gov't to direct PJM to hold emergency power auction. Data centers set to foot ...

Web Hosting Talk 18 Jan 2026
The move is in response to growing concerns that power demand emanating from the data center sector is far outpacing supply across the PJM market ... by 2036, driven predominantly by data center growth.
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Here’s how AI data centers affect the electrical grid

CNN 18 Jan 2026
Where are data centers built? Virginia has the biggest data center cluster in the entire world. It currently has 561 data centers in 23 markets, according to Data Center Map, which has tracked data centers since 2007.
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Gas power plant for data center project stirs concerns in Surprise

Azcentral 18 Jan 2026
Like other data center developments in the state, it comes with an ambiguous name ... But as data centers and their merchant power plants spawn nationwide, those living next door to them wonder about the actual cost of the data center boom.
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B-SB commissioner wants PSC paramaters on data centers, including one proposed in Butte

Montana Standard 17 Jan 2026
The council will consider Commissioner Russell O'Leary's letter when it meets this Wednesday night ... .
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