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Governors veto; city councils, courts, and zoning boards do not. The consent fight now lives at the tier the executive pen cannot reach.
The consent map redrew this week. Maine's first-in-nation moratorium fell to a governor's veto, Seattle introduced a 365-day freeze, and a Virginia court invalidated Prince William's fast-track rezoning. Hyperscalers ignored all of it: combined 2026 capex now stands at $725 billion, up 77 per cent year-on-year.
Read full update →Capital is no longer the bottleneck for data centres; consent is. April 2026 brought the first US statewide moratorium, the IEA's hardest figures yet on growth and onsite gas, and a UK grid queue that exceeds Britain's peak demand. Operators with consent push concrete; operators without it pause, relocate, or burn gas behind the meter.
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