Western Data Center Pulse

Amazon outbid Puget Sound Energy for the shovel-ready Sunstone Solar and Storage project, committing roughly $3 billion to own and operate 1.2 GW of...

• A Prince William County resident recounts local civic meetings opposing industrial-scale data centers in the world's largest market
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Prometheus Hyperscale is pressing ahead with county approvals and workforce training for its Evanston project.

• Legal hurdle cleared: Judge...

Oregon data center jobs split between Portland suburbs and smaller high-desert towns east of the Cascades, where hyperscale campuses are driving local...

The near-doubling of planned gas capacity for U.S. data centers to over 189 GW by mid-2026 stems directly from grid constraints pushing...

Public opposition to data center expansion is reshaping the political landscape, putting Republicans on the defensive while forcing Democrats to...

Local leaders in the West are joining a growing wave of resistance to new data center builds.

• Washington County Commissioner Nafisa Fai is...

• Fast-track conversion: Keel is turning an 18-MW former Bitcoin mining site in Moses Lake into an AI/HPC facility, with demolition complete,...

The secretive approval of a Nevada data center on federal land is triggering the exact resistance FiberLight CEO Major predicted will force industry...

Prometheus Hyperscale plans a 1.5 GW data center in Reeves County that bypasses ERCOT entirely with private natural-gas generation, aiming for 100-150...

• Hyperscalers routed over $120 billion in data-center debt through project entities by late 2025, keeping construction costs off corporate balance...

Nvidia is extending its AI-infrastructure strategy upstream by taking an undisclosed minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a 2024-founded...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says data center developers "dug their own grave" by skipping local community support, prompting new rules requiring approvals...

Opposition to data centers has escalated into a potent political force, reshaping midterm races and prompting officials to reverse course.

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NVIDIA's minority investment in Cloverleaf Infrastructure lets the chipmaker fund power and site development for AI factories, potentially bypassing...

AI workloads are changing not just how much electricity data centers use, but how quickly that demand is climbing, with cooling data also proving critical.

NERC is forcing data center operators into mandatory compliance by December 31, 2026, after finding 77% of modeled load lacks basic protection...

New national rankings reveal stark contrasts for western states in data center capacity, pipeline, and environmental risks.

• California: 393...

The Pacific Northwest faces a widening gap between surging electricity demand and stalled infrastructure growth, with BPA retreating from its mandate...

NVIDIA’s minority investment in Cloverleaf Infrastructure lets the companies integrate power, cooling and computing requirements earlier through the...