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For decades, electricity was an input you managed. In 2026, it’s a constraint you negotiate. AI-driven data center expansion is pushing energy systems into the spotlight. Microsoft just launched a U.S. initiative aimed at limiting data center impacts on power costs  and water , including commitments to cover its power usage costs more fully and publish water metrics by region. That’s not corporate virtue. That’s a signal: communities are pushing back, and utilities are strain

Local control is the mythology of American zoning. But in 2025, the real story is state power—especially in California, where the state has increasingly treated housing scarcity as a statewide economic emergency rather than a neighborhood preference. The result is a new zoning reality: your city’s plan may be less powerful than the state’s housing statutes. Start with SB 9, California’s lot-split and duplex law. It was designed to legalize small-scale infill in single-family