The development of data centers has boomed in recent years, with the United States accounting for about half of the world's ...

xAI’s notorious data centers near Memphis, Tenn., are appropriately named Colossus 1 and Colossus 2. The supercomputers that ...

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 ...

These facilities use excessive amounts of electricity and water. Development plans are being discussed in Polk, Palm Beach, ...

They form the backbone of social media platforms, e-commerce sites and other technologies. They pay big tax bills but suck up energy and water.

The rise of AI data centers has sparked panic about how to provide enough electricity to support new development without ...

Part one of our Keep Calm and Count the Kilowatts series showed how AI prompts are only a small portion of a person's daily power use. Part two explored how AI’s power, water and carbon footprints ...

Texans from Waco to Harlingen are raising concerns over how much energy and water data centers are poised to use. Local officials, some enticed by a tax boon, say they have little power to stop the ...

The Arizona Republic used air quality records to estimate how much energy could be guzzled by data centers in Maricopa County ...

Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers on Thursday proposed legislation that would put a moratorium on data center construction.

We set out to identify every data center in Maricopa County's energy capacity and identify how water use varied among ...

Environmental regulators last week said the “Project Washington” data center proposed by Starwood Digital Ventures doesn’t meet Coastal Zone Act regulations. It proposes using 516 diesel-powered ...