Coming soon · by Dr. Troy Nash
The Nash Group
Data Center Briefing.
Everyone is busy. Every two weeks, one short read tells you what changed for data centers across the country, and what it means.
Sources: Data Center Watch, Q1 2026 report (bills and statewide proposals). Brookings, Nicol Turner Lee and Darrell M. West, July 28, 2026 (localities).
Built for busy people
Nobody has time to follow all of it.
Council members and commissioners are working through agendas, constituents and budgets. Planning staff are carrying full caseloads. Neighborhood leaders and residents are balancing work and family. Developers and utilities are running projects.
The decisions are happening in every statehouse and at local hearings across the country, whether anyone has time to follow them or not. The briefing does the reading, checks every item against its source, and gives you the part that matters, so you can walk into the next meeting prepared.
One short read
Every two weeks. The front page if you only have a minute, the full sweep when you need it, and the source for every item when you have to cite it.
Every issue
What changed, and what it means.
The news is easy to find. What a change means for the next hearing is not.
The front page
One page on what changed nationally, and why it matters.
The state sweep
Bills filed, passed or failed; utility and rate decisions; incentive changes. Every item links to its source.
Local actions
Moratoriums, zoning ordinances and hearings to watch.
Projects decided
Approved, denied or withdrawn, and why.
What it means
Dr. Nash's read on the items that matter most, for a council, a developer and a resident alike.
The full library
Subscribers get the complete National Data Center Resource Library, the state-by-state index and the spreadsheet.
How this is different
The facts are out there. The meaning is not.
You can already find free weekly headline roundups, trackers of local opposition, industry trade news, and project datasets sold to developers and investors. What is harder to find is what a change means, written for everyone in the room where the decision gets made.
Every state, every two weeks
The whole country in one read
Legislatures, regulators and local hearings, gathered in one place so you do not have to watch them all.
A source for every item
Check it, cite it
Every item links to where it came from, so a staff report or a comment letter can cite it directly.
The same facts for every side
Reports, never advocates
Officials, residents and developers read the same briefing. It does not argue for a project or against one.
What it means
From someone who has decided these questions
Headlines tell you what happened. The briefing tells you what it means for the next hearing, the next vote and the next site.
A free way in
Start before you subscribe
A free sample of the library is open now, and the list is free to join.
Signed by name
One accountable author
Every issue is written and signed by Dr. Troy Nash, so you always know who stands behind it.
Why Dr. Nash
He has sat in every seat at the table.
The resident. The councilman. The regulator. The broker. The developer. The professor. He grew up in Section 8 public housing. He served on the Kansas City Council from 1999 to 2007 and chaired its Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Committee from 2003 to 2007. He served on the Missouri Housing Development Commission from 2009 to 2017. Today his firm has four developments and 254 homes in the pipeline.
So when a county board weighs a moratorium, he knows the vote from the dais. When residents pack the room, he knows it from the neighborhood. When a developer needs approval, he knows it from the applicant's chair. The briefing reads every change from all of those seats at once.
Who it is for
The same facts for every side.
Public officials and staff, community groups and residents, attorneys and consultants, developers, utilities and investors. Everyone reads the same briefing. It reports; it does not advocate.
by Dr. Troy Nash
Kansas City Council, 1999 to 2007, and chair of its Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Committee from 2003 to 2007. Missouri Housing Development Commission, 2009 to 2017. The briefing is written from the side of the table that has to decide.
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