Taylor Griffith
Senior Field Correspondent | [email protected]Taylor Griffith covers the intersection of the digital economy, politics and the environment as a senior field correspondent for KJZZ.
Previously, Griffith was the producer and editor of Ten Across Conversations, an Arizona State University podcast framing the Interstate 10 corridor as a vital observatory for understanding the future of climate and community in America. She also spent a year as a community reporter in Coolidge for PinalCentral.com, covering everything from drought management to local elections and sports.
Griffith earned her degree in English literature from Arizona State University, an education that informs her ethnographic approach to reporting and her commitment to building a compassionate record of humanity. Outside the newsroom, she enjoys cooking, reading, pop culture deep-dives with friends, and spending time with her fiancé and adorable miniature dachshund.
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Ahwatukee residents flooded a town hall with Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes in Mesa on Wednesday. Mayes told residents her team will consider a nuisance law investigation into the unpopular Menlo data center project. -
Last month, Corporation Commissioner Lea Márquez Peterson asked Arizona utilities to explain how prices and reliability could be impacted if the Pacific Northwest's Bonneville Power Administration does not join their new resource trading market. -
Data analyst Abhay Padgoankar says a group of around 100 data centers and other large industrial users have nearly all of the increased demand on APS's system in recent years. To keep up with demand, he says, the utility is buying more power from outside suppliers and charging that across the entire rate base. -
Pima County has paused all data center development as leaders consider new rules and regulations for their development. The Goldwater Institute believes that pause goes against state property rights, but county officials say its necessary to buy time to revise their code to stop unregulated data center construction. -
A new market, known as Markets+, offers western utilities an alternative to California governance. But, California has since agreed to give up oversight of the west's largest energy trading market. So, will Arizona utilities stay or go? -
Casa Grande passed a new law last year that puts data center applications in front of the public. Residents were unhappy with Thursday night's vote on the Grande Valley Data Center. -
Data centers can no longer build within in industrial areas in the city without a public hearing. One data center will go through the new public process tonight. -
Plans for a massive film studio and retail complex in Tonopah also include a large-scale data centerThe developer, Anita Verma-Lallian, says it could be the largest film studio in the country. -
The Goldwater Institute, a conservative and libertarian public policy think tank, says Pima County’s four-month pause on data center development is illegal because it cannot prove data centers are an imminent threat. A Pima County supervisor says it does have proof and that its moratorium is written in accordance with state law. -
Sen. Mark Kelly has proposed creating a federal trust fund to shield American workers from potential large-scale job losses. And he wants AI technology firms to pay for it.
