Impact Type: Economic Impacts

Data Center Accountability and Citizen Protection Act (HB983, OH)

Excludes data centers from a privacy provision for businesses receiving financial incentives. Requires a citizen vote of any town within 5 miles before approval of a data center or data center expansion. Details including noise, light and power generation to be made public before votes. Directs director of environmental protection to establish air emission and…

Economic Impacts, Environmental Impacts, Grid & Infrastructure Impacts, Public Health Impacts
The Trade Shortage Crisis: How Data Centers Are Exposing America’s Skills Gap

Rapid data center construction exposes a U.S. skilled trades shortage decades in the making. Details labor gaps in electrical, mechanical and plumbing fields, argues companies must co-invest in apprenticeships and rebuild vocational pipelines, and proposes shifting software tools to keep experienced tradespeople on job sites rather than behind desks.

Economic Impacts, Human Rights & Labor Exploitation
Pennsylvania data center boom faces both support, opposition

Despite available land, energy access and strong developer interest, southwestern Pennsylvania's emergence as a data center hub raises unresolved questions about grid capacity, community impact and regulatory readiness. National data center investment has grown exponentially, putting the Pittsburgh region at the center of a debate over rapid industrial expansion.

Community & Social Impacts, Economic Impacts, Grid & Infrastructure Impacts
Local Opposition Is Slowing A.I. Data Centers. Wall Street Has Noticed.

At least $156 billion in data center projects stalled under coordinated local opposition in 2025, according to 10a Labs' Data Center Watch tracker. Resistance hardens into moratoriums and tax incentive freezes across multiple states. In Illinois, four projects collapsed after the state paused data center tax breaks. Developers face growing difficulty securing sites as grassroots…

Community & Social Impacts, Economic Impacts
I am not scared of AI. I am scared of us.

AI-Specific Risk Analysis, Community & Social Impacts, Economic Impacts, Public Health Impacts
National Coalition Against Cryptomining (NCAC)

The National Coalition Against Cryptomining (NCAC) is a grassroots advocacy organization working across 21 states to oppose the harms of proof-of-work cryptomining and AI data centers. The coalition documents how these operations consume massive energy, drive up utility costs, pollute air and water, and disrupt communities while remaining largely unregulated. NCAC supports local chapters and…

Community & Social Impacts, Economic Impacts, Environmental Impacts, Grid & Infrastructure Impacts
Policies for Data Centers, 2026

This Sierra Club policy brief outlines four categories of state-level guardrails to mitigate data center impacts: ratepayer protections through large load tariffs and cross-subsidy prevention, clean energy accountability via RPS enforcement and on-site renewable mandates, reform of tax and utility incentives, and public health protections addressing cumulative air emissions from backup diesel generators. The document…

Community & Social Impacts, Economic Impacts, Environmental Impacts, Grid & Infrastructure Impacts, Public Health Impacts
Data Centers, Riches and Rebellion in Big Tech’s Inland Empire | TechPolicy.Press

Ohio is experiencing a surge in data center development, promising economic growth but raising concerns among residents about environmental impacts, utility costs, and the adequacy of job creation. Communities are divided, with some local governments offering significant tax incentives to attract data centers while residents question the long-term benefits. The shift from industrial to tech-driven…

Community & Social Impacts, Economic Impacts
Data Center Workgroup: Preliminary Report by Washington State, Department of Revenue

Washington’s 2025 Data Center Workgroup preliminary report finds that rapid data center growth is significantly increasing electricity demand and raising concerns about grid reliability, ratepayer cost shifting, and alignment with the state’s climate goals. The group also questions whether existing tax exemptions deliver sufficient economic return given relatively low permanent job creation. While no final…

Community & Social Impacts, Economic Impacts, Environmental Impacts
Beware of TeraWulf: We Believe the Company is a Charade to Enrich Insiders at the Cost of Investors and Backed by Notorious Pump and Dump Artists – Grizzly Research LLC

This investigative report by Grizzly Research examines TeraWulf (WULF), a Bitcoin mining company operating large-scale computing facilities in Western New York and Central Pennsylvania, alleging that insiders have siphoned over $100 million through related-party transactions with CEO-controlled entities. The report details connections between TeraWulf's largest shareholders and individuals charged by the SEC in pump-and-dump schemes,…

Economic Impacts