Every state in the US has at least one data center. Across the US, the number of data centers nearly doubled from 2021 to 2024. Amid a nationwide rush by AI companies to build data centers to support their feverish growth, and by many locales to attract them , some cities are saying whoa, not so fast. That's the case in both St. Louis and St. Charles, Missouri, two cities just 30 minutes apart in the heart of the country. On Aug. 22, St. Charles imposed, in a unanimous vote by the city...
