March 3, 2026
Gigawatt Ambitions, County-Level Resistance: Who Blinks First?The project will generate 4,000 peak construction jobs and 300 permanent roles, joining a March deal wave that includes AMD's $100 billion supply agreement with Meta for up to 6 GW of AI capacity, Microsoft-Duke Energy power contracts covering 4.5 GW of committed generation, and Microsoft's 15-datacenter approval at the former Foxconn site in Wisconsin with $13 billion+ in taxable construction value.