Topic
Data Centers
238 published works
Environmental and Energy Brief
Data Centers Face Growing Environmental and Litigation Risks
By Justin A. Savage, Caleb J. Bowers, Riley Desper
The environmental regulatory and litigation landscape for data centers has shifted. In the past several weeks, states with significant existing or planned data center development have announced new requirements affecting…
The Trichordist
@ArtistRights Symposium 5 Panel: In Our Own Backyard: Data Centers, AI Infrastructure, and the Creative Communities That Pay the Price
Registration is open for Artist Rights Symposium V at Eventbrite!The Artist Rights Symposium V is coming on October 19 at Tweed Recording in Athens, GA hosted by the University of…
Joe Raczynski | Technologist
Systems of Systems: Engineering Clean Baseload Power for the Digital Beast
Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. As the world wrestles with record-shattering global temperatures, a sobering technological contradiction has taken center stage: the rapid expansion of modern…
Breaking Ground
California's 2026 Data Center Laws: What You Need to Know
By Publisher
Tamsen Plume, Bradley B. Brownlow, Daniela de la Rosa, Nicholas William Targ
Environment, Land & Resources
Texas Pauses Certain Data Center Approvals Amid Grid, Water, and Community Concerns
Recent directives create uncertainty for data center projects seeking ERCOT interconnection or requiring TCEQ permits. By Nikki Buffa, Joshua W. Marnitz, Jeremiah Davis, and Nathaniel L. Glynn In response to…
Don’t Mess With Taxes
The tax connections of AI, data centers and, yes, celebrities
By Kay Bell
Google Data Center, The Dalles, Oregon. Photo by Visitor7 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 …U.S. taxpayers know it is nigh impossible to escape taxes. Those of us who are…
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo
AG Watch: How Maryland Is Meeting the Data Center Age
By Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo
Erek L. Barron authored an article for Law360 examining how Maryland is responding to growing electricity demand driven by data center development and artificial intelligence. The article discusses the state's…
Bracewell LLP
Democrats Float AI, Data Center Tax Plans as Tool for Midterms
By Bracewell
Democrats are increasingly embracing proposals to tax AI and scale back tax incentives for data centers as they seek to address voter concerns about electricity costs, water use, job displacement…
Foley & Lardner LLP
California Enacts Seven Data Center Bills, Effective January 1, 2027: New Tariff, Entitlement, and Disclosure Rules for Hyperscalers, Developers, and Power Producers
By Kelly Smith
On September 21, 2026, Governor Newsom signed into law seven data center bills, which primarily take effect on January 1, 2027. Three of the bills (SB 886, AB 2383, and…
Environmental Law +
What We Are Reading: Environmental + Energy Series | Solar Growth, Offshore Wind Lease Deals, and Michigan Climate Case
By Jon Schaefer
Week of September 21 As September winds down, a familiar theme continues to emerge across the environmental and energy landscape: the challenge of balancing growing energy demand with reliability, affordability,…