3+ hour, 34+ min ago  (1173+ words) Illinois lawmakers are digging deep on data centers, with a House committee hearing from mayors, labor groups, and agriculture representatives about the facilities" local impacts in the first of three planned meetings. Rep. Ann Williams, D-Chicago, the chair of the…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (1127+ words) Pushback from citizens and threats of voting out board members might not prevent the Sangamon County Board from approving a $500 million data center that supporters argue would bring in construction jobs and substantial property tax revenue. "I know these neighbors....

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (998+ words) One day after the Sangamon County Board voted March 23 to table a data center proposal, the city of Aurora, about 175 miles northeast of Springfield, enacted some of the nation's tightest restrictions on future data center developments after years of citizen…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (401+ words) After almost three hours of constituents mostly deriding the idea of a data center in Sangamon County, the County Board voted 15 to 13 to table the Cyrus One project that would take more than 280 acres of farmland. More than 700 residents of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (879+ words) After months of hearings and discussions, the Sangamon County Board seems poised to approve plans for the county's first data center on March 23 despite consistent pushback from constituents. Cyrus One plans to build a data center campus on 280 acres of…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1336+ words) Opponents of a proposed $500 million data center in southwestern Sangamon County went away disappointed and angry but unbowed, while officials from a Dallas-based company left smiling, after a pair of nonbinding votes by county officials Feb. 19. "This is a long-term…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1507+ words) The debate over how to regulate data centers in Illinois is intensifying as lawmakers struggle to balance costs to consumers and the state's need to be competitive economically. Data centers house computer systems that store, process and distribute data but…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1752+ words) Most of the 250 people who turned out at a public meeting Jan. 5 in Lincoln to hear a Florida-based company's plans to build a $5 billion data center in rural Logan County clapped, chanted, stood and yelled in opposition. "Who asked for…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1481+ words) A public outcry and inaccurate information on social media about a proposed data center in rural Logan County have prompted officials to delay votes on zoning necessary for the project until at least February. In the meantime, representatives of Miami-based…...