KCRG ABC 9

Report: Iowa data center boom carries billions in economic impact

KCRG ABC 9

Iowa is emerging as a national heavyweight in data centers. A new report says the state is on track to triple its data center operations by 2031 ...

Early signs point to big boost for Hoosiers from data centers

By Jim Merritt

Indiana has heard plenty about the data-center boom: billions in proposed investment and construction jobs. The more consequential question is whether the benefits will extend beyond the project site and be shared by all Hoosier families and businesses ...

Data centers are the next chapter in Indiana’s industrial heritage

By Jeff Danielson

Northwest Indiana has never been a spectator in America’s economic story. Region Hoosiers have forged the steel, built the machinery, moved the freight and powered the factories that made modern life possible ...

Homeowners in the heart of America’s AI boom are getting an unexpected payoff

By Amanda Macias

Billions in build-outs of facilities to support the artificial intelligence (AI) boom have become a lightning rod in communities across America, but homeowners in the nation’s data center capital are seeing a surprising payoff — thousands of dollars in property tax relief ...

For some skilled tradespeople, data center construction 'has brought back the American Dream'

By Rachel McCrea

The birthplace of the nation’s data center boom has been experiencing long months of angst, as some Loudoun County residents say they’re fed up with the facilities that have become part of the suburban landscape of Northern Virginia ...

California Passes Bills to Require Data Centers to Pay Their Own Electricity Costs

Sierra Daily News

California lawmakers approved two bills requiring special electricity rules for large data centers ...

The Data-Center Dividend for Workers

WSJ Editorial Board

President Trump has drawn condemnation for suggesting that communities that block data centers will end up “backwards and poor.” ...

Data center growth touted in addition of 500+ jobs in central Ohio

The Columbus Dispatch

Multiple companies are planning to add nearly 600 new jobs across central Ohio in fields ranging from engineering to manufacturing, according to a release from the state ...

Data centers not just server farms. AI is being used for noble goals, Ohio's future

By Chad Zamarin

Moderna and Merck announced that their mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in late-stage melanoma trials – a potentially life-saving medical breakthrough powered by artificial ...

Data centers and AI are helping my Georgia city punch above its weight

By Adam Schindler

Meta has officially opened its new AI data center on Industrial Boulevard in Temple. The facility, which broke ground in 2022 and underwent a redesign and construction restart in 2023, is now operational ...

Amazon Is Handing $150,000 to Bucks County Groups as Its Falls Township Data Center Splits the Neighborhood

By Doug Renner

Amazon’s data center rising on the old U.S. Steel land in Falls Township just did something it had not done ...

Data centers can power up employment in PA – if done right

By Robert S. Bair

For generations, union workers have built the infrastructure that keeps Pennsylvania moving, from bridges to energy infrastructure. Their skilled hands have helped build the commonwealth we know today, and they should have a central role in building what comes next ...

Louisiana residents are training for jobs at Meta's largest-ever AI data center: 'Why not get in now?'

By Lauren Edmonds

Thousands of construction workers are arriving in a small Louisiana community to build Meta's largest-ever data center ...

National Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Prefer Data Center Development with Strong Guardrails Over Moratoria

For Immediate Release

Washington, D.C. – October 15, 2026 – A new bipartisan national survey conducted by Fabrizio Ward (R) and Impact Research (D) on behalf of the American Infrastructure Alliance finds that ...

This Red Oak program is training workers for North Texas data centers

By Wilborn P. Nobles III

For more than 20 years, Paula Ombar worked in collections, calling people who were behind on their car payment. Then she watched AI begin to take over parts of her job ...

Early signs point to a big boost for Hoosiers from data centers

By Jim Merritt

Indiana has heard plenty about the data-center boom: billions in proposed investment and construction jobs ...

Columbia County Expects $40 Million Annually from Google Data Center Agreement

By Kelly Shearing

Columbia County approved a $17 billion data center deal with Kinetic Infrastructure Solutions, an Alphabet Inc. subsidiary ...

Do Data Centers Raise your Electricity Bill? Evidence from U.S. States

By Yosef Bonaparte

Data-center investment has become one of the largest capital-expenditure cycles in financial markets, with U.S. hyperscalers expected to deploy roughly $700 billion in 2026 ...

Tech giants recruit thousands of trade workers to build data centers

Mornings with Maria

FOX Business' Jeff Flock reports on the partnerships between tech giants like Google and unions to train the next generation of electricians to wire up massive AI data centers. ...

Economic impact in counties with mega data centers in operation or under construction vs. US total

A16Z

U.S. counties with operational mega data centers exhibit stronger local economic metrics, including increased housing, higher home values, lower unemployment, and faster job growth ...

Data Centers: A Transformative Opportunity for Pennsylvania’s Economy and Communities

By Jon Anzur

Pennsylvania stands at an inflection point. Towns across the Commonwealth have seen industries fade—and with them, the ...

Google announces additional $1 billion investment in Council Bluffs data center

By Katrina Markel

On Tuesday afternoon Google announced plans to invest another $1 billion in its data center in Council Bluffs. The tech company also announced it is partnering with ...

Data center boom leads to surge in demand for electricians — and interest in joining trade

By Cole Sullivan

Applications to the North Texas Electrical Training Center have climbed to about 700 a month, up from 60 to 70 a month just a few years ago, as a surge in data center construction drives demand for electricians, the center’s training director said ...

America’s new blue-collar job boom is one nobody saw coming — and it’s just getting started

By Amanda Macias

Inside a sprawling Texas data center campus, blinking tower lights and rows of neatly organized cables power the technology Americans use every day ...

American Infrastructure Alliance Launches First Nationwide Partnership Between Labor & Business to Advance Responsible Data Center Infrastructure Growth

For Immediate Release

Washington, D.C. — September 28, 2026 — The American Infrastructure Alliance (AIA) today launched the first nationwide coalition of labor and business focused on establishing responsible,

Study: Data centers could support nearly 3,000 Northwest Indiana jobs a year

By Tom Joyce

Data centers could support nearly 3,000 jobs each year across Northwest Indiana, a new study says ...

In the PR battle for AI data centers, tech giants have a blue-collar ally

By Marc Levy

Building trades unions — long fashioned as the voice of the American worker — are now intertwined with the richest companies in the world as they create America’s artificial ...

Commentary: SC already knows what good data center investment looks like

By: Heath Sessions

The computing power behind digital life has to sit somewhere, and there are competitions
across the country to determine where it lands ...

How 1,800 local tradespeople are powering Pennsylvania’s ultimate energy and data innovation campus

By Salena Zito

Eighteen months ago, Shawn Steffee stood in a field in Indiana County and watched the smokestacks of Pennsylvania’s largest coal-fired power plant fold into a cloud of dust, then told anyone who would listen that the wreckage was not a funeral ...

Google and College of Charleston Partner to Invest in Student Success

By George Johnson

Four College of Charleston computer science majors spent six weeks this summer participating in Google’s Data Center Student Immersion Program, gaining hands-on experience in one of the technology industry’s fastest-growing sectors ...

In Western Pennsylvania, a former coal town gets a gas-fired data center

By Reid Frazier

On a Saturday morning in March, a demolition crew took down the smokestacks at the Homer City Generating Station. The plant – first commissioned in 1969 – once ...

Meta goes live in Temple with $1.2 billion AI data center

By Adam Schindler

Meta has officially opened its new AI data center on Industrial Boulevard in Temple. The facility, which broke ground in 2022 and underwent a redesign and construction restart in 2023, is now operational ...

Meta Altoona Data Center announces community grants to local groups

Business Record

Fifteen Des Moines-area nonprofit groups and schools are the recipients of Meta Community Action Grants, Meta Altoona Data Center has announced. (Meta previously was known as Facebook Inc.) The grants total more than $200,000. The ...

KCRG ABC 9

Report: Iowa data center boom carries billions in economic impact

Iowa is emerging as a national heavyweight in data centers. A new report says the state is on track to triple its data center operations by 2031 ...

INSIDE INDIANA BUSINESS

Early signs point to big boost for Hoosiers from data centers

Indiana has heard plenty about the data-center boom: billions in proposed investment and construction jobs. The more consequential question is whether the benefits will extend beyond the project site and be shared by all Hoosier families and businesses ...

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Data centers are the next chapter in Indiana’s industrial heritage

Northwest Indiana has never been a spectator in America’s economic story. Region Hoosiers have forged the steel, built the machinery, moved the freight and powered the factories that made modern life possible ...

FOX NEWS

Homeowners in the heart of America’s AI boom are getting an unexpected payoff

Billions in build-outs of facilities to support the artificial intelligence (AI) boom have become a lightning rod in communities across America, but homeowners in the nation’s data center capital are seeing a surprising payoff — thousands of dollars in property tax relief ...

LOUDON TIMES-MIRROR

For some skilled tradespeople, data center construction 'has brought back the American Dream'

The birthplace of the nation’s data center boom has been experiencing long months of angst, as some Loudoun County residents say they’re fed up with the facilities that have become part of the suburban landscape of Northern Virginia ...

SIERRA DAILY NEWS

California Passes Bills to Require Data Centers to Pay Their Own Electricity Costs

California lawmakers approved two bills requiring special electricity rules for large data centers ...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

The Data-Center Dividend for Workers

President Trump has drawn condemnation for suggesting that communities that block data centers will end up “backwards and poor.” ...

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Data center growth touted in addition of 500+ jobs in central Ohio

Multiple companies are planning to add nearly 600 new jobs across central Ohio in fields ranging from engineering to manufacturing, according to a release from the state ...

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Data centers not just server farms. AI is being used for noble goals, Ohio's future

Moderna and Merck announced that their mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in late-stage melanoma trials – a potentially life-saving medical breakthrough powered by artificial ...

THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

Data centers and AI are helping my Georgia city punch above its weight

Meta has officially opened its new AI data center on Industrial Boulevard in Temple. The facility, which broke ground in 2022 and underwent a redesign and construction restart in 2023, is now operational ...

LOWER BUCKS TIMES

Amazon Is Handing $150,000 to Bucks County Groups as Its Falls Township Data Center Splits the Neighborhood

Amazon’s data center rising on the old U.S. Steel land in Falls Township just did something it had not done ...

CITY & STATE PENNSYLVANIA

Data centers can power up employment in PA – if done right

For generations, union workers have built the infrastructure that keeps Pennsylvania moving, from bridges to energy infrastructure. Their skilled hands have helped build the commonwealth we know today, and they should have a central role in building what comes next ...

BUSINESS INSIDER

Louisiana residents are training for jobs at Meta's largest-ever AI data center: 'Why not get in now?'

Thousands of construction workers are arriving in a small Louisiana community to build Meta's largest-ever data center ...

PRESS RELEASE

National Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Prefer Data Center Development with Strong Guardrails Over Moratoria

Washington, D.C. – October 15, 2026 – A new bipartisan national survey conducted by Fabrizio Ward (R) and Impact Research (D) on behalf of the American Infrastructure Alliance finds that ...

DALLAS MORNING NEWS

This Red Oak program is training workers for North Texas data centers

For more than 20 years, Paula Ombar worked in collections, calling people who were behind on their car payment. Then she watched AI begin to take over parts of her job ...

ELKHART TRUTH

Early signs point to a big boost for Hoosiers from data centers

Indiana has heard plenty about the data-center boom: billions in proposed investment and construction jobs ...

HOT AUGUSTA

Columbia County Expects $40 Million Annually from Google Data Center Agreement

Columbia County approved a $17 billion data center deal with Kinetic Infrastructure Solutions, an Alphabet Inc. subsidiary ...

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH NETWORK

Do Data Centers Raise your Electricity Bill? Evidence from U.S. States

Data-center investment has become one of the largest capital-expenditure cycles in financial markets, with U.S. hyperscalers expected to deploy roughly $700 billion in 2026 ...

FOX BUSINESS

Tech giants recruit thousands of trade workers to build data centers

FOX Business' Jeff Flock reports on the partnerships between tech giants like Google and unions to train the next generation of electricians to wire up massive AI data centers. ...

A16Z

Economic impact in counties with mega data centers in operation or under construction vs. US total

U.S. counties with operational mega data centers exhibit stronger local economic metrics, including increased housing, higher home values, lower unemployment, and faster job growth ...

PENNSYLVANIA MUNICIPAL LEAGUE

Data Centers: A Transformative Opportunity for Pennsylvania’s Economy and Communities

Pennsylvania stands at an inflection point. Towns across the Commonwealth have seen industries fade—and with them, the ...

KMTV

Google announces additional $1 billion investment in Council Bluffs data center

On Tuesday afternoon Google announced plans to invest another $1 billion in its data center in Council Bluffs. The tech company also announced it is partnering with ...

WFAA ABC 8

Data center boom leads to surge in demand for electricians — and interest in joining trade

Applications to the North Texas Electrical Training Center have climbed to about 700 a month, up from 60 to 70 a month just a few years ago, as a surge in data center construction drives demand for electricians, the center’s training director said ...

FOX NEWS

America’s new blue-collar job boom is one nobody saw coming — and it’s just getting started

Inside a sprawling Texas data center campus, blinking tower lights and rows of neatly organized cables power the technology Americans use every day ...

PRESS RELEASE

American Infrastructure Alliance Launches First Nationwide Partnership Between Labor & Business to Advance Responsible Data Center Infrastructure Growth

Washington, D.C. — September 28, 2026 — The American Infrastructure Alliance (AIA) today launched the first nationwide coalition of labor and business focused on establishing responsible,

CENTER SQUARE

Study: Data centers could support nearly 3,000 Northwest Indiana jobs a year

Data centers could support nearly 3,000 jobs each year across Northwest Indiana, a new study says ...

AP NEWS

In the PR battle for AI data centers, tech giants have a blue-collar ally

The computing power behind digital life has to sit somewhere, and there are competitions
across the country to determine where it lands ...