Showalter Quoted on Data Center Development After Midterm Election Setbacks
Law360 Real Estate Authority
Partner J. Michael Showalter was quoted in a recent article examining how the midterm election results and growing calls for oversight could affect data center development.
As developers assess the changing political landscape, Mike said projects will face greater scrutiny over infrastructure costs and local impacts. “The next phase of this debate will be less about whether data centers are needed and more about who’s going to pay for the power infrastructure, who controls resources like water, where it might be scarce, or grid capacity, and whether host communities received enough benefits to accept individual projects.”
Mike said developers should determine when their project rights become legally protected and show that communities will not bear the projects’ costs. “The projects most likely to survive are those that address power, water, ratepayer protection, and community benefit before opposition hardens into law,” he said.
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