June 7, 2026
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.
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Illinois is a major electricity generation hub that supplies power to neighboring states including Texas through interconnected transmission grids.
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June 2, 2026
Ride-Through Becomes the New Phase I Discipline for Texas SitesContrast 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
Disclosure Is Coming. Developers Tracking Water Now Won't Break Stride.Illinois shows where unaddressed water concerns travel.
May 25, 2026
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
MARA's $1.5B Long Ridge Buy Sets the New AI Infrastructure PlaybookIllinois lawmakers are pushing the POWER Act and a permanent Mahomet Aquifer withdrawal moratorium against a 44 GW project backlog.
April 9, 2026
Nine Months to Shape the Rules Texas Is About to WriteEven Google, which pioneered corporate clean energy PPAs, agreed last October to buy power from a 400 MW Illinois gas plant.
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