Mid-Year Review: The Year Privacy Became an Infrastructure Problem
Eight hundred data centers under construction. 101 gigawatts of announced private gas generation. Two-thirds of new AI facilities sited in water-stres...
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The AI Race as National Security Doctrine — and the Civil Liberties Bill Attached to It
A December 2025 executive order called for a national AI policy framework and preemption of conflicting state AI laws, plus a DOJ task force to identi...
Two-Thirds of New AI Data Centers Are Going Up in Drought Zones — Mid-Year Water Review
American data centers consumed an estimated 17.5 billion gallons of water directly in 2023, a figure projected to double or quadruple by 2028. About t...
101 Gigawatts of Private Gas Plants: Data Centers Are Building Their Own Grid
Data center developers have announced roughly 101 gigawatts of behind-the-meter natural gas generation in the United States. About 57 GW of that has a...
Data Centers on Army Bases: What EO 14318 Actually Does — and What It Doesn't
You have probably read that the White House 'classified AI data centers as military installations.' That is not what happened, and the accurate versio...
$130 Billion of Data Centers Blocked in Three Months — The Consent Bottleneck Is Real
Data Center Watch counted at least 75 projects worth roughly $130 billion blocked or delayed by local opposition in the first quarter of 2026 alone — ...
Texas Froze New Data Center Approvals — And the Reason Is 474 Gigawatts
On 3 August, Governor Greg Abbott halted approvals for new data centers connecting to the Texas grid until state regulators audit them. The trigger: a...
Nobody Agrees How Many Data Centers America Has — A Mid-Year 2026 Census
Halfway through 2026, the trackers put the United States somewhere between 2,000 and 2,100 operating data centers, around 800 under construction, and ...
The $130 Billion Question: Who Decides Where America's AI Gets Built?
The federal AI buildout promises 75-plus data centers worth $130 billion-plus, fast-tracked onto American soil. But the same number turns up in a stra...