The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental costs Amber X. Chen - AAAS Mass Media Fellow As the demand for A.I. increases, ...

For nearly as long as modern computing has been around, so have the boxy, unassuming data centers that host servers and networking equipment. But the vast capacity needed for the artificial ...

SALINE TWP., MI — Despite local officials’ opposition, a controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community in southeast Washtenaw County ...

AUGUSTA TWP., MI — A proposal for a large computer data center campus on hundreds of acres in southeast Washtenaw County has sparked concerns from many nearby residents. New York City-based real ...

SummaryIn data-center terms, scaling out involves linking computers, while scaling up packs more GPUs into a computer, ...

NVIDIA is rolling out AI data center reference designs that combine digital twins with power, cooling, and controls architectures from industrial partners including Siemens, ...

Amazon Web Services executive says data center is long-term commitment that company wants to be part of community.

Big Tech has come to town. Billion-dollar companies are in a race to build “hyperscale” data centers to fuel their push to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing technologies. The rural ...

Advances in artificial intelligence are driving surging demand for data centers. But these warehouse-like facilities, containing computers that process and store data, require a lot of land and huge ...

SALINE TWP., MI — A Dallas-based development firm and local landowners have initiated legal action against Saline Township after its board rejected a rezoning proposal for a massive data center for AI ...

Nehemiah Emerson, critical facilities operations manager for NTT Global Data Centers, speaks about the electrical plant at the NTT Data campus in Garland, June 23, 2025. Tom Fox Dallas-Fort Worth is ...

They’re key to making the internet efficient and to the boom in artificial intelligence. They generate lots of tax revenue for local governments and plenty of controversy from neighbors and ...