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A developer plans to build a 160-acre data center and its own gas-fired power plant in Surprise. Residents near the proposed site worry about air pollution, health risks, and safety concerns. Because ...

Andy Power, CEO of Digital Realty says data center real estate is not oversupplied as hyperscalers like Nvidia, Amazon, Google and Meta announce more projects. JLL expects data center capacity to ...

President Trump was right about Microsoft — but he only leaked part of the story. Microsoft is changing its approach to building massive data centers for artificial intelligence, unveiling what it ...

Meta Platforms Inc. agreed to a series of electricity deals to power data centers that will make it the biggest buyer of nuclear power among its hyperscaler peers. The agreements could end up totaling ...

Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton is pushing legislation aimed at encouraging data center operators to build their own power supplies outside the nation’s electric grid by exempting them from most ...

Organizations have a wealth of unstructured data that most AI models can’t yet read. Preparing and contextualizing this data is essential for moving from AI experiments to measurable results. In ...

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohioans may soon feel the strain of a grid that’s adding massive new data centers faster than it can build the power to run them. The just completed PJM capacity auction — the tool ...

Big data centers equipped to supply their own power during heatwaves and other emergencies can begin operations much more quickly than those reliant solely on traditional utility hookups, according to ...

President Trump announced he is pardoning Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife, who were indicted last year on bribery and money laundering charges. It’s the latest in a series of ...

Nov 19 (Reuters) - Operators of the U.S. electric grid covering the world's largest data center market on Wednesday said they planned to move forward with a plan to manage the connection of the giant ...