1+ hour, 40+ min ago   (658+ words) The Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors approved a measure on Thursday to charge data centers a separate, higher electric rate to protect residents and other business from cost increases. The nation's largest public utility generates power for over 10 million…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (390+ words) The Walker County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to extend the county's data center moratorium by 180 days and create an impact study group. The Board of Commissioners meeting stretched on for more than three hours. One after another, residents…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1116+ words) Data centers, which store and facilitate data for computer applications, have become more ubiquitous in public discourse over the past few years as artificial intelligence tools have risen in prominence. Crypto or bitcoin mines, meaning facilities used to manufacture digital…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (748+ words) Russian authorities said Wednesday they had charged Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram, with aiding terrorism, the latest step by the Kremlin to bring the internet and digital communications under its control. The charges…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (28+ words) Chattanooga Times Free Press TVA must order gas turbines seven years ahead as data centers compete...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (425+ words) An organization that represents the data center industry is trying to get Georgians to think of the electricity-hungry facilities more favorably. Connected Georgia and its parent organization America Connects recently established a state presence when they created a website on…...

4+ week, 14+ min ago   (741+ words) The Tennessee Valley Authority, a federal agency and the nation's largest public power provider, announced Thursday it had signed onto a ratepayer protection pledge related to data centers put forth by the second administration of President Donald Trump. The utility…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (369+ words) Nashville's Metro Council on Tuesday voted to establish new regulations for data center development and implement a moratorium on data center permits until Dec. 1. The body also advanced Mayor Freddie O'Connell's legislation aimed at using eminent domain to purchase a…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (395+ words) Hamilton County will go through a one-year moratorium on data centers after the County Commission approved the plan. County Mayor Weston Wamp initially proposed the ban in late June, and he said during Wednesday's commission meeting the intent is to…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (250+ words) The Walker County Board of Commissioners has voted unanimously for a 30-day moratorium on data centers. Walker County became the third county or city government in the region to pass a moratorium in the past month. "We'll take our time…...