The 72% Illusion: Data Center Approval Rates Hide a Stalling Market

Approvals still beat denials, but suspensions and cancellations now outnumber approvals. Here's where projects are stalling in Q3 2026.

When a data center comes to town: Local zoning & the small-town boards deciding the controversies

Spark September Product Update: Ask Spark, Site Screening, and Trendlines

Crypto Built a Foundation for AI Infrastructure

What CoreWeave, Crusoe, and IREN have in common, plus my own crypto-to-compute story

Publicity, politics, power, and pushback: Takeaways from the AI Infra Summit 2026

Everyone is worried about data centers. Does that still matter?

[Technical] Code reviews at Spark: What we changed after AI

How Spark's engineering team rebuilt code review around agents

Spark August Product Update: Stakeholder Intelligence & Alerts Upgrades

New on Spark: Political stakeholder intelligence

Agents for your community engagement work: Full dossiers on what makes county decision-makers tick

Now live: Spark AI Data Center Rankings by State

Every state, tracked by how friendly it is to data centers.

The summer America started saying no to data centers

Except "no" usually means "not yet." Plus: an interactive map of data center projects in the US

The new (and old) players overtaking hyperscalers in the data center race

In 2021, only a small elite of companies built data centers. Now, the market is rapidly expanding, with one segment outpacing the others

The surprising variable that correlates with data center opposition

We tested 16+ variables against a dataset of over 5,000 recent data center projects. This one correlates with more opposition -- and opposition of a different kind