The Southfield City Council approved a plan for a $1.5 billion data center in a 5-2 vote. Residents expressed concerns about the facility's high electricity usage, potential pollution and noise. The ...

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 ...

Data is the oil that fuels the AI gold rush; machines need it to understand the world and help us solve its most pressing problems. But the way we use, collect and store data is evolving as quickly as ...

Jobs and inflation data will be released late and with caveats, complicating the Federal Reserve’s interest rate deliberations. By Ben Casselman and Rebecca Davis O’Brien The government shutdown is ...

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We’re breaking ground on our 30th data center in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, designed to enable ambitious AI workloads. As part of our commitment to supporting the Beaver Dam community, we’re donating $15 ...

We’re investing $600 billion in American infrastructure and jobs, including industry-leading AI data centers. By building in the US, we’re not only advancing AI technology and infrastructure, but also ...

The amount of capital pouring into AI data center projects is staggering. Last week, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon reported their 2025 capital expenditures would total roughly $370 billion, ...

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and whether these facilities are sustainable in the age of AI. Tech giants have been ...

Global data center power demand is averaging a 17% annual growth rate, a new McKinsey study found. In the US, data centers could account for 14% of total power demand by 2050. Fossil fuels are likely ...

Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., Chair of the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, is not letting a government shutdown slow down her office's work on getting a market structure bill for crypto to President ...

In June, Business Insider published an investigation into the data center industry. We wanted to dig into the pace of growth in light of the artificial intelligence boom, as well as the resources the ...