How AI’s power, water and carbon footprints have a disproportionate effect on local communities, and what can be done about it.

Data centers are the hidden engines of the digital world, but they come with serious environmental costs. A data center is a ...

Utilities across the country are investing in upgrades, and the cost is often passed on to consumers. In some places, utilities are increasing capacity for data centers, but elsewhere they're ...

In letters to seven AI firms, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) ...

The move comes as rising electricity rates became an increasingly hot-button issue in the US, which has far more data centers ...

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The letter says the proposed data centers would bring in jobs and billions of dollars. But other officials say they'd be ...

A growing digital economy and use of artificial intelligence has exponentially increased the need for physical facilities to store, manage and process data. Here's what to know about data centers in ...

State Rep. Rodney Elliott filed legislation aimed at ensuring that residential electricity customers are not forced to ...

REYKJAVÍK, Iceland, Dec. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- atNorth, the leading Nordic high-density colocation and built-to-suit data center provider, has won the `Environmental Impact Award' at the Data ...

Fueled by a boom in artificial intelligence and the nation’s insatiable demand for cloud computing, Michigan is plunging into an era of massive data centers. Across the state, developers are pitching ...