Lou Hirsh

States move to regulate data center water use

CEO Andy Lederman started Bucket Listers with the idea of giving customers memorable adventures without necessarily having them travel beyond their hometown.

A nostalgic trip to Candy Land, with colorful replicas of settings from the popular kids' board game, is at the heart of the latest U.S. pop-up space, this one in a San Diego restaurant as more are ...

It's getting easier to order a side of IHOP flapjacks with Applebee's Bourbon Street chicken.

Nashville officials are turning to eminent domain to block a data center planned near a local zoo, an effort that has gained attention far beyond Tennessee.

Tim Olson had some tight parameters for relocating real estate services firm JLL's San Diego office: Stay in the University Town Center neighborhood. Find a higher-end space. Be near freeways. And ...

Year-to-date U.S. spending on data center projects started through June stood at $81.5 billion, already surpassing the full-year 2025 total of $72.5 billion. That’s also more than three times the ...

Old industrial buildings could be next data centers

An outbreak of food-borne illness caused by contaminated lettuce dented sales and customer visits at Taco Bell during the past month, though parent firm Yum Brands said events haven’t affected its ...

The U.S. Energy Department is partnering with a group that includes Brookfield and NextEra Energy to develop a planned $100 billion data center campus in Western Kentucky, among the latest government ...

Country music veteran Willie Nelson has joined other celebrities opposing a wave of data center developments tied to the burgeoning use of artificial intelligence, with large projects planned in some ...

At least 17 U.S. states have enacted or are considering scaling back tax incentives designed to attract data center development, a new report finds.

BlackRock and Meta are forming a $14 billion partnership backing the Facebook parent’s data center campus now underway in El Paso, Texas, as both companies increase their already significant ...

A Michigan congresswoman is calling for large data centers to be banned from land owned by the federal government, the second recent U.S. House proposal to restrict development at a time when several ...

More communities mull data center limits

OpenAI’s planned $20 billion data center near Savannah, Georgia, joins a roster of more than 1,500 such projects now in the works nationwide, many of them in rural areas.

One of San Diego’s largest philanthropic organizations has agreed to acquire a nearly century-old, former theater building long seen as an eyesore and obstacle to rejuvenate the city’s struggling ...