WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI — An influx of proposals for massive, hyperscale data centers to power artificial intelligence and other ...

Giant AI data centers are causing some serious and growing problems – electronic waste, massive use of water (especially in ...

Having data centers “visible in the night sky at dawn or dusk” presents a problem because some observers “rely on twilight to ...

Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone ...

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 ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI — There are three data center projects aimed at powering AI and computing proposed in Washtenaw County. More are anticipated. In response, county officials are collecting ...

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 ...

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, ...

Data centers seem to be popping up everywhere, with big tech companies proposing to build them on farmland, old golf courses, downtowns and industrial parks. Many of the proposed developments are huge ...