Illinois

June 7, 2026

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Permits Hit a 49-Year High as 70% Push Back. Texas Tightens Instead.

Meanwhile Illinois paused all new tax incentives July 1, Reno extended its moratorium to 2027, and Gallup pegged opposition at 70% nationally.

June 2, 2026

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Ride-Through Becomes the New Phase I Discipline for Texas Sites

Contrast that with Illinois, where the POWER Act missed its May 31 deadline and Governor Pritzker is moving to suspend $983 million in tax credits, and Virginia, where a Prince William County appeals court halted the Digital Gateway project on public-notice grounds.

May 26, 2026

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Disclosure Is Coming. Developers Tracking Water Now Won't Break Stride.

Illinois shows where unaddressed water concerns travel.

May 25, 2026

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Texas Ranks First on Power. A 5,500-Person Town Decides the Water.

Texas tops Labrynth's new 50-state Data Center Readiness Index, with Oregon, Illinois, and Florida rounding out the top four across nine dimensions including grid reliability, interconnection, permitting, and water supply.

May 3, 2026

Illinois lawmakers are pushing the POWER Act and a permanent Mahomet Aquifer withdrawal moratorium against a 44 GW project backlog.

April 9, 2026

Even Google, which pioneered corporate clean energy PPAs, agreed last October to buy power from a 400 MW Illinois gas plant.