Western Data Center Pulse

Gilbert's new rules ban data centers from business park zones, mandate 400-foot setbacks from property lines and 650 feet from homes, bar potable...

Project Postponements

• 🔥 $130B Delayed Projects: A new study finds $130 billion in US data center projects were postponed or canceled.

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Texas faces mounting pressure to regulate data centers as AI-driven growth strains water, power, and local resources.

• Citizen and local concerns:...

A new study finds data centers modestly lowered US electricity rates from 2015–2024 even with $130 billion in projects postponed. Steady demand helped spread grid costs, challenging narratives of strain.

An opinion piece urges states to require data center developers to invest in home batteries, rooftop solar, heat pumps and virtual power plants to support grid stability. These measures would ensure facilities earn their place in the energy system.

• Incumbent governors in Pennsylvania and Texas are shifting from welcoming major data center projects to proposing stricter rules on energy costs and...

• BPA preference rules cap cheap power at 10 MW per new load, forcing data centers to pay nearly triple the rate at $111/MWh.
• CETA mandates require...

Texas leads the western U.S. data center market, but developers continue pursuing California projects due to persistent demand.

• Preleased capacity...

Utah Regulatory Pause

• 🔥 Grand County Action: Grand County has approved a 180-day temporary pause on accepting, processing, or approving data...

At least 74 gas-fired power projects totaling 143 GW are now in development across the United States with data centers explicitly in mind, including...

Most Americans oppose AI data centers due to their heavy water demands for server cooling, prompting comparisons to agriculture and concerns over straining supplies in already tight arid western regions.

Local governments in Taylor, Texas and Grand County, Utah are implementing regulatory pauses on data center development to craft new land-use...

Phoenix transformed from California's overflow site into a top-five US data center market in roughly a decade, with deployed capacity hitting ~2.4 GW...

Galaxy Digital has completed Phase I of its Helios campus in West Texas, delivering 133 MW of critical IT load to CoreWeave under a 15-year lease that...

Western data center developers face twin structural barriers that could stretch AI timelines by years.

• Grid bottlenecks create 4-9 year connection...

Contractors face mounting pressure from $7 trillion in projected data center spending by 2030, where manual workflows like spreadsheets and email...

PNW Policy Shifts

• 🔥 Tacoma Bans New Data Centers: Tacoma has explicitly prohibited new data centers, adding to restrictions already in place in...

Every gigawatt of data center construction generates 2 million square feet of spillover industrial real estate demand, with roughly 80 percent tied to...

Tacoma has declared new data centers are not allowed in the city.

Google has emerged as the owner of Project Tembo (formerly Project Jade), Wyoming's largest data center at 2.7 GW scale on a 716-acre Cheyenne...