Underclassic week of Nov 2, 2026: Bensalem Township Weighs Data Centre Rules With 2,000-Foot Buffers

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Issue 98: Bensalem Township Weighs Data Centre Rules With 2,000-Foot Buffers
2026-11-08. axis 82. Bensalem brings 2,000-foot buffers and a generation ban to a hearing, Muncy residents call a $1,000-a-day fine too small, voters backed limits in 40 of 41 local contests,...

Issue 97: Concord Township Approves Data Centre Ordinance With 900-Foot Setbacks
2026-11-07. axis 83. Concord Township wrote 900-foot setbacks and utility-only power into zoning before any application arrived, Scarborough banned the use town-wide, and JPMorgan put about 37 GW of...

Issue 96: Google Commits $17 Billion to First Wyoming Data Centre With 702 MW Fuel Cells
2026-11-06. axis 84. Google answered the midterm backlash with a $17 billion Wyoming campus and a 702 MW fuel-cell plant that it says will pay its own way on power, while OpenAI offered new community...

Issue 95: Wilmington Voters Block 546-Acre Rezoning Beside Amazon's Ohio Data Centre Site
2026-11-05. axis 83. Google is now standing behind the financing for an Anthropic campus in Kentucky, but voters in Wilmington, Ohio, closed the door on more data centre land and Texas elected a...

Issue 94: Voters in Dozens of American Towns Approve Limits on Data Centres
2026-11-04. axis 84. Chipmakers are still selling record numbers of data centre processors, but voters in dozens of towns have now written limits on where those processors may be plugged in, and...

Issue 93: Apple Warns Memory Costs Will Keep Rising as Mac Sales Jump 24%
2026-11-03. axis 85. People are buying more Macs than ever to run software at home, but the memory inside them is getting dearer because the largest AI clusters are buying it first, and grid planners...

Issue 92: National Grid Buys Land for Britain's Biggest Substation Beside Teesside AI Data Centre
2026-11-02. axis 85. Grid operators, memory makers and model companies all moved this weekend to tie power and silicon more closely to the largest buyers, from a 3.2-gigawatt substation on Teesside to...

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