The city’s Metro Council will be considering legislation next week that would regulate and restrict some types of data centers in Nashville.
Fisk unveils billion-dollar renovations, including new on-campus data center
Fisk University is rolling out plans for a new billion-dollar project that will bring a data center to its campus in North Nashville. School officials tout the move as a workforce pipeline for the community and an expansion of academic opportunities for students.
Data centers are expensive, unpopular — and could be a tipping point in the midterms
Anger over the data center boom has spilled into politics with voters unseating local politicians who support them. It’s become an issue hard to ignore in the midterm elections.
Conservative think tank calls local data center ban ‘unconstitutional’ in new civil rights lawsuit
The Beacon Center of Tennessee is representing the ExoticRidge Crypto Company in a lawsuit accusing Hawkins County government of violating the cryptocurrency miner’s civil rights by passing a sweeping data center ban.
Elon Musk’s xAI, pollution and data centers — what you need to know about a Tennessee bill
Data centers are popping up, causing concerns about electricity use, and prompting a question: Should data centers be able to produce their own power?
Tennessee has 60 data centers. Nashville probably has more than you think.
Tennessee has 60 data centers, and more than a third of them are located in the greater Nashville area.
Utility to buy power from advanced nuclear plant to fuel Tennessee and Alabama Google data centers
The nation’s largest public utility plans to buy power from an upcoming advanced nuclear plant to help fuel Google data centers in Tennessee and Alabama. The Tennessee Valley Authority, Kairos Power and Google announced the agreement will deliver up to 50 megawatts to the federal utility’s grid that powers the data centers.
How one rural Tennessee town pushed back over a proposed bitcoin mine and won
The tech industry is increasingly eyeing rural communities to warehouse servers for cryptocurrency mining and data storage. In Mountain City, locals pushed back.
As data centers proliferate, conflict with local communities follows
The sprawling, windowless warehouses that hold rows of high-speed servers powering almost everything the world does on phones and computers are increasingly becoming fixtures of the American landscape, popping up in towns, cities and suburbs across the U.S.
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