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In April 2026 Dickey County, North Dakota authorities said trucks and equipment tied to construction of Applied Digital's Polaris Forge AI data center near Ellendale caused severe damage to gravel county roads, some of which need to be rebuilt; several county roads and highways were closed for repairs. Applied Digital's CEO said the company is working with county officials to repair the roads and that paving of 87th Ave. and 95th St. will be… Read the article

WXYZ and MLive reported that hundreds of gravel trucks a day roll through downtown Saline, Michigan as Oracle and OpenAI build what is expected to be Michigan's largest data center, with residents demanding relief from the truck influx and raising traffic safety concerns. Read the article

In January 2026 the Ozaukee Press reported that some roads near Vantage Data Centers' Lighthouse Campus construction site in Port Washington, Wisconsin were already showing damage from dozens of heavy trucks a day hauling soil and stone, and that Ozaukee County had no agreement with Vantage to repair county roads (the city of Port Washington does). The Ozaukee County Sheriff's Office increased patrols on the truck route after speeding and noise… Read the article

On October 27, 2025 the Linn County, Iowa Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a road use agreement under which data center developer QTS will fund improvements to rural county roads that have sustained wear and tear from heavy construction trucks serving its $750 million Cedar Rapids campus, including just over $117,000 in backpayment. The site is inside Cedar Rapids city limits, but crews use nearby county roads to deliver materials… Read the article

On May 22, 2025 a fire burned for hours at a Digital Realty data center in Hillsboro, Oregon. A fire department report obtained by WIRED found it began in a Schneider Electric uninterruptible power supply (UPS) cabinet, likely from an electrical or mechanical issue; lithium-ion batteries were ruled out. People familiar with the matter told WIRED that Elon Musk's X has servers at the site. WIRED notes AI power demand could raise data center fire… Read the article

A fire broke out on September 10, 2024 in battery rooms at Digital Realty's SIN11 data center at 3 Loyang Way, Singapore. The Singapore Civil Defence Force said lithium-ion batteries were involved and the likely cause was electrical. The fire damaged two battery rooms, two power supply rooms and a storage room; the Building and Construction Authority found structural damage but said integrity was not affected and issued closure orders for some… Read the article

On April 26, 2023 a cooling-system water pump failure at Global Switch's Paris-area data center (Clichy) let water into a battery room, which then caught fire. Firefighters contained the fire to the technical room and no one was injured. Google said "water intrusion" caused a multi-cluster failure and shut down its europe-west9 (Paris) region, and French government and municipal websites hosted at the site were also disrupted. Sources do not… Read the article

On October 15, 2022, a fire broke out at about 3:33 p.m. at the SK C&C data center in Pangyo, which housed infrastructure used by Kakao and Naver. Power was cut for safety, disrupting KakaoTalk messaging and logins, Kakao Pay, Kakao Games, Daum and Melon, along with some Naver shopping services; no casualties were reported. AI connection: General data center — reporting ties the outage to messaging, payments, gaming and internet services, not AI… Read the article

Bloomberg reported in October 2026, citing people close to the project and public records, that Nscale's flagship AI data center in Glomfjord, Norway was running about six months behind schedule amid construction delays, cooling-system leaks, and a transformer fire. Nscale had not confirmed the report at publication; a source familiar with the project later told DCD the fire occurred in December 2025 and destroyed switchgear but caused no delay… Read the article

KNOE reported in September 2025 that residents near Meta's data center construction in Richland Parish said trucks hauling gravel and dirt cracked windshields, chipped paint and left deep ruts on rural roads. State troopers described rocks flying off trucks and unsecured loads, and patrols were doubled. Read the article