From 2009-11, Americans seemed to be clustering again in dense cities, to the great excitement urban boosters. The recently released 2015 Census population estimates confirm that was an anomaly. Americans have strongly returned to their decades long pattern of greater suburbanization and migration to lower-density, lower-cost metropolitan areas, largely in the South, Inter mountain West and, most of all, in Texas.
Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder and director of the firm’s energy & utility infrastructure department, recommends: Blocking the construction of data centers is a national security risk
July 24, 2026
By David A. Deptula | Washington Post Debates over data center construction have generally targeted the issue as a local zoning nuisance or a threat
