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March 1, 2026

4 entries published that day, and 1 dated to March 2026 with no day, the everything feed by the day each row entered the record; the timeline lists milestones alone, by the day they happened. Each is one sourced row of the record: what happened, where, and where it came from. Nothing here is an article and nothing is unapproved.

  1. Nebraska Statement

    Jordan Anderson, Sierra Club Nebraska. As of March 2026, Google had built three data centers in Nebraska, including one in Omaha and one in Papillion. Said March 1, 2026, wowt.com. wowt.com local outlet (paraphrased; content date; reported from elsewhere)

  2. Maryland Jurisdiction event

    Maryland. The Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin assessed data center consumptive water use in the Washington metropolitan area at about 4 million gallons a day on average in 2025 and 15 million on the peak day, projected about 22 million a day on average and over 80 million at peak by 2050 under baseline assumptions, and noted that summer demand arrives when river flows are lowest potomacriver.org primary source (reported on this date) (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

  3. Virginia Jurisdiction event

    Virginia. The Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin assessed data center consumptive water use in the Washington metropolitan area at about 4 million gallons a day on average in 2025 and 15 million on the peak day, projected about 22 million a day on average and over 80 million at peak by 2050 under baseline assumptions, and noted that summer demand arrives when river flows are lowest potomacriver.org primary source (reported on this date) (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

  4. Federal News item

    Data Centers and Water Use in the Potomac River Basin. The Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin's assessment (dated March 2026, no day given, recorded here as the first of the month), part of the 2025 Washington Metropolitan Area Water Supply and Demand Study, puts data centers' onsite consumptive water use in the Washington metropolitan area at about 4 million gallons a day on average in 2025 and about 15 million on the peak day, from utility records linked to facility power capacities with a 75 percent consumptive use factor and estimates where no direct reporting exists. Under baseline assumptions it projects about 22 million a day on average and over 80 million at peak by 2050, with summer demand arriving when river flows are lowest. All four figures are regional totals, consumptive use, estimated. The two jurisdiction events need a rating from you before Approve writes them: the Virginia and Maryland state rows carry no rating yet and this assessment does not set one. Archived at data/archive/sources/icprb-2026 data centers potomac basin.html. Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, 2026-03-01. Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin primary source (reported on this date) (reported on; the source's own date)

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  1. Massachusetts Jurisdiction event Moratorium adopted

    Lowell. Lowell City Council imposed a 360 day moratorium on data centers in March bostonherald.com local outlet Also reported by GBH News (New England News Collaborative) local outlet (2 reports). (content date, the month only; the source names no day)

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