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Data Center Bans Top 500 as New York, Texas Join Pushback


Local government resistance to data center development accelerated this summer, a warning sign for big AI companies such as Anthropic, Google and OpenAI that are pinning their compute ambitions on data center expansion. In July alone, more than 150 towns and counties passed temporary or ...

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