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Power, Air, Water and Permits: Environmental Law Issues Driving Data Center Development in the AI Era
February 19, 2026
Kate Campbell, Esq., Katherine L. Vaccaro, Esq., and Sean F. Fahy, Esq.
The Legal Intelligencer
Data centers are receiving significant attention right now, and for good reason. While modern data centers have been in use since the early 2000s, initially supporting the dot-com boom and later the rapid expansion of cloud-based services such as remote work platforms, online banking and streaming, the mainstream launch of ChatGPT and similar AI applications in late 2022 highlighted the need for a new generation of hyperscale data centers--and many of them.
