Data Centers

Lumberton, NC approves data center rules limiting sites to one industrial park and requiring water and power disclosure.

Statista data puts US data center revenue at $137.46 billion, with average rent of $196.25 per kilowatt per month.

IEA analysis shows natural gas supplies over 40% of US data center electricity and adds more than 130 TWh by 2030.

PPL lifts its 2027-2030 capital plan to $25 billion, citing a proposed Kentucky gas plant and 12.8 GW of data center loa

Spartanburg County, SC reviews draft deals for three data center sites, including a 457 MW existing campus buildout.

Democrats Peter Hubbard and Sheila Edwards won Georgia PSC seats, giving the party a majority for the first time in 30 y

Effingham County, Georgia, commissioners tabled a vote on OpenAI's roughly $20 billion Project Camellia site plan until

Democratic midterm winners call for data center limits as AI-linked stocks fall, per CNBC reporting.

ConstructConnect: data center starts of $84.1B through July, near 3x last year, with average cost per sq ft up 57%.

ConstructConnect: $135.8B in data center starts through September, with Texas at $22.6B and Georgia at $4.7B.

Entergy cites $500M more Arkansas ratepayer savings in an amended Google contract and a 7-12 GW data center pipeline.

WhiteFiber closed a $60M purchase of two Yadkin County, NC sites and said 35 of 40 MW is live at NC-1.

ConstructConnect puts median data center build cost at $570 per sq ft, up 38% from 2025.

ConstructConnect reports $98.5B in US data center starts through August across 153 projects.

OpenAI's Grid Protectors Program starts with up to 1 GW of flexible demand at a Georgia campus.

SpaceXAI plans two more Colossus 2 clusters in Southaven, Mississippi, with about 420,000 GB300 chips.

Chevron says first power for Microsoft's West Texas data center is still set for 2028 despite Texas permit pause.

Statista: US private data center construction spending is annualizing at $84.95 billion as of August 2026.