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Luke Barnes

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Aug 25, 2026
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Jul 5, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Luke Barnes

    If America Doesn’t Want Data Centers, Where Will They Go? (opens the original)

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    There are few political topics that Governors Kathy Hochul and Greg Abbott would likely agree on. But data centers might be one of them. On August 3, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a moratorium on Texas data centers (which had been growing at breakneck pace) until they could be effectively audited by the state’s energy regulators. Just over a fortnight beforehand, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers, partially to build a framework tha

  2. Article · Jul 5, 2026 · Luke Barnes

    This Data Center Is Everything That Everyone Hates About AI (opens the original)

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    The Stratos Project was supposed to be an industrial marvel for the AI age. The proposal—a massive hyperscale data center in Box Elder County, Utah—was initially slated to be more than 2.5 times the size of the island of Manhattan. Once completed, it would use more than double the state’s average electricity demand and draw power from a dedicated natural gas supply. These immense figures would allow Stratos to train cutting-edge AI models, assist in advanced manufacturing, and even help with def

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