Data centers siphon huge amounts of energy to power artificial intelligence. But their environmental footprint starts to balloon even before the first server switches on due to the immense amount of ...

The Naperville City Council struck down a proposal for a data center in the Chicago suburb that sparked significant backlash from neighbors worried about energy consumption, noise pollution and ...

Naperville City Council members, facing a packed house opposed to a data center being built on Naperville’s far northeast side, voted 6-1 Tuesday night to reject the project. Developer Karis Critical ...

An Equinix data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Swollen with seemingly insatiable demand for computing power, the AI boom has birthed hundreds of unicorns out of thin air, minted dozens of billionaires ...

U.S. power grids are struggling to keep up with surging data center demand, forcing operators to offer “bring your own generation” or conditional grid access to hyperscalers. Big Tech is pushing back ...

WILMINGTON, Ohio (WKRC) - The Wilmington Planning Commission tabled the site plan for an Amazon data center Tuesday, citing a lack of information. The city staff recommended the move after laying out ...

SOUTH BEND, IN (WSBT 22) — A potential expansion in Dowagiac has started another data center debate in our area. City leaders say while it’s still in the very early stages, a data company has ...

Power-hungry data centers risk pushing parts of the U.S. power grid toward failure. Some technology companies are fighting a potential solution: disconnecting the data centers from the grid when ...

A proposed data center in the exurbs of Grand Rapids is in limbo after protesting residents shut down an initial planning commission meeting over the project in early December. The Lowell Township ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suggested Sunday that AI is the “most consequential technology in the history of humanity,” as he reiterated his call for a moratorium on data center construction. “It will ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday called for a moratorium on data-processing sites used to fuel AI to get a better grasp on regulating the burgeoning technology and how it benefits the 1 Percent. The ...

There was a time when most Americans had little to no knowledge about their local data center. Long the invisible but critical backbone of the internet, server farms have rarely been a point of ...