The tech giant's new "community first" initiative includes pledges to pay full power costs, reject local tax breaks, and ...

Loudoun County, Virginia, is a data center hub, with sprawling facilities such as this Ashburn, Virginia, location, seen in July 2023. Credit: Ted Shaffrey/AP Photo The major artificial intelligence ...

Throughout the United States, data centers are popping up like weeds, devouring water and electricity to fuel the unprecedented demand for AI training and inference. At the same time, water levels in ...

Local fights against new data centers are gaining bipartisan support across the US. Local fights against new data centers are gaining bipartisan support across the US. is a senior science reporter ...

WALTERBORO, S.C. (WCSC) — A controversial proposal for an 850-acre data center property in Colleton County went before the Zoning Board of Appeals Thursday night, where residents voiced opposition to ...

As the development firm Oppidan explored building a large-scale data center in North Mankato, they emailed a request: “Can the city sign an NDA?” Five minutes later, North Mankato said yes. The city’s ...

As Frederick's City Council takes up the idea of regulating data centers, the council has confirmed the mayor's appointment of a data center engineering director as an alternate to the city Planning ...

As the AI surge progresses, the most significant hurdle is unlikely to be the availability of chips or components. Instead, it will be electricity, cooling, and physical space. On our planet, data ...

The nearly 600 acres of land off Michigan Avenue in Saline Township, where Related Digital wants to build a massive data center, is still just vacant land in a fairly rural community close to Ann ...

The Midwest is a fast-growing hub for data centers, with companies seeking cheaper land outside of Chicagoland. Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is building a large data center in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The location was chosen for its land, power, water, fiber availability, and local workforce. Data centers use ...

The Wisconsin Building Trades Council views data centers as a source of long-term, high-skill jobs for its members. The author argues that communities can negotiate terms with data center companies to ...