A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built. An extensive new analysis looks ...

Data centers seem to be popping up everywhere, with big tech companies proposing to build them on farmland, old golf courses, downtowns and industrial parks. Many of the proposed developments are huge ...

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence has changed the data center industry and thrust construction of giant server farms ...

Data centers are the critical infrastructure underpinning the digital age, and even a brief outage can have massive ripple effects. That's why their developers have historically avoided disaster-prone ...

Communities are protesting new data centers due to environmental impacts and rising utility costs. Data centers require significant amounts of electricity and water, with consumption expected to grow.

The Energy Secretary tells me that data centers are not responsible for Americans paying higher utility bills, but consumer advocates say Americans are footing the bill for the rapid expansion of ...

Michigan may remember 2025 as the year of the data center. Developers have eyed at least 16 sites in 10 counties across the Lower Peninsula for the power-hungry server warehouses supporting artificial ...

Loudoun County‘s tighter zoning rules are slowing new data center approvals New projects are rising in Stafford, King George, Caroline and Louisa counties Power constraints and community opposition ...

NEWPORT NEWS — Mayor Phillip Jones told regional business leaders in October the city was in the “very initial steps” toward attracting a data center. However, internal city documents and emails ...

Lansing — Some of the state’s strictest safeguards against the negative effects of data center development will be administered through the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, an agency that ...