Concerns over rising electricity bills will guide changes in AI data center development, particularly around how they are powered, but are unlikely to slow the overall expansion and need for grid ...

State and local governments are under real pressure to move from experimentation to execution for artificial intelligence. Constituents expect faster services, more transparency and digital ...

These facilities use excessive amounts of electricity and water. Development plans are being discussed in Polk, Palm Beach, Martin, and Citrus counties. Florida doesn't have a hyperscale data center ...

Racks of servers inside an AWS data center in 2023. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Lisa Karstetter grew up in Eastern Washington’s agricultural country. By the mid-2000s, she was running the Quincy Valley ...

An Ohio mesonet station installed in Willard, Ohio. (Geddy Davis photo) SALEM, Ohio — Access to weather data has greatly expanded farmers’ ability to forecast conditions, track crop progress and ...

A deal led by French energy company TotalEnergies will supply large-scale solar power to Google as the tech giant ramps up its data-center footprint in Texas. Under two long-term power purchase ...

A new Brookings Institution report looks at how local communities across the country can take advantage of the data center boom to foster long-term economic benefits. The artificial intelligence arms ...

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A large crane placing steel beams and excavators leveling ground are among the signs of progress at a planned Lancaster city data center, but millions in payments to the city and a local nonprofit ...

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The Pittsburgh International Race Complex in Beaver County closed after its 2025 season. Community members fear the 400-acre property will be replaced by a data center. Local officials recently ...

Leaders in Chatham County on Wednesday approved a moratorium that would ban the construction of data centers and cryptocurrency mining for a year in the county. According to a presentation on the ...