AI and the City

10+ hour, 27+ min ago   (1101+ words) For years, Dr. Simon Wright, a facial reconstruction trauma surgeon, has reconstructed facial bones by bending and molding titanium plates by hand to the injured area. It's a time-consuming and often erroneous process. The manual work has now been replaced…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (815+ words) The Prairie Creek coal-powered plant is shown operating on a cold day in December 2022 in Cedar Rapids. Alliant Energy has converted the plant to natural gas, a move applauded by the Iowa Sierra Club. Before Iowa was the nation’s most…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1601+ words) Zoe Seiler | Sep 18, 2026 | 3:20 pm | Data center development is rising in Iowa, prompting several municipalities to enact legislation to regulate the industrial land use. Some communities, such as Cedar Rapids and West Des Moines, have benefited from increased property tax revenue…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (169+ words) Community members pack a Peosta City Council work session over the city's data center ordinance on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. PEOSTA, Iowa — City leaders in Peosta said they plan to extend their moratorium on data center development by six months. That’s just…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (195+ words) Dubuque County supervisors want to invest in aquifer monitoring to learn more about the health of local water. Water usage is a key issue in the county’s ongoing discussions about data center regulation. The supervisors this week said they…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (159+ words) DUBUQUE COUNTY, Iowa — Dubuque County leaders are weighing strict new rules for data centers that could sharply limit where the facilities could be built, even as a county moratorium on new applications remains in place. County leaders are now six…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (266+ words) DUBUQUE, Iowa — The Dubuque County Board of Supervisors held a work session to discuss potential pollution issues from data centers as the county works to create a new ordinance. Supervisors held their bi-weekly data center work session. The Board of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (240+ words) Agenda HTML: https://cityofclintoniowa.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/464178?handle=8A87494A09044102A39827DBE71470B8 Agenda PDF: https://cityofclintoniowa.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/464177?handle=DE7AAC3E7EFD435F85E6FC5BFB76D2AA 1. Pledge 1. Roll Call 2. Meeting Items 3.a Continuing Work Session Discussion for Data Center Ordinance 4. Adjournment Agenda HTML: https://cityofclintoniowa.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/464178?handle=8A87494A09044102A39827DBE71470B8 Agenda PDF: https://cityofclintoniowa.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/464177?handle=DE7AAC3E7EFD435F85E6FC5BFB76D2AA It will be about two weeks until the Clinton City Council will review…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1073+ words) An Iowa business group is pushing back on Alliant Energy's plan to invest in additional power plants, saying everyday customers could get saddled with billions in costs for generating capacity intended mainly to serve data centers in Iowa. Iowa Business…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (231+ words) It will be about two weeks until the Clinton City Council will review the changes members discussed on Tuesday to a draft zoning ordinance to regulate data centers. They will take up the issue at the committee of the whole…...