Data Centers

100 Days in Appalachia & More Perfect UnionNovember 18, 2025 Mingo County, West Virginia, was once thriving, but the coal industry’s decline left it one of the poorest counties in the US. Now, several data centers could be built in the region. Are data centers a new extractive industry, or will they provide a much-needed…

The High Cost of the Cloud: How Big Tech’s Data Centers Are Supercharging America’s Power Bills On the outskirts of Des Moines, a new skyline is rising — not of glass towers or apartment blocks, but of vast, windowless warehouses humming with servers. Inside, machines run day and night, processing everything from your social media…

Ohio RegisterBY Jeff SkinnerOctober 25, 2025 SPRINGFIELD, OH – Across the state local municipalities are working diligently to sell the public on the construction of data centers that the public, if not entirely oblivious on, are actively opposing. While the city of Springfield’s record of standing in defiance of the public will has been well…