UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 8 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The construction of new data centers is shaping up to be a defining issue in the 2026 midterm elections. Politicians in both parties have been distancing themselves from data centers in the face of public discontent around the issue, with public backlash leading to the freezing of dozens of data center projects nationwide this year.
Recently, government officials have considered multiple new ways to construct data centers, including building data centers on federal lands and trading park lands with developers for data center construction.
In this Q&A, Hannah Wiseman; professor at Penn State Dickinson Law and the Colleg...