Just one problem: No one seems to want a data center in their backyard. Communities oppose them because they consume massive ...

The order aims to shield residents and other businesses from the impact of data centers' enormous thirst for energy.

Stanford University's Anjney Midha said AI leaders would face less resistance to building data centers if they listened more ...

Today’s uproar over data centers reminds me a lot of the angst over Walmart two decades ago. There’s an enormous amount of bad information coming from advocates and opponents alike — and governments ...

A new Senate bill would shield consumers from data centers’ rising energy costs. The instinct is right. The diagnosis is wrong. Data centers now account for roughly 7% of U.S. electricity demand, ...

SpaceX wants to put up to a million data centers in orbit. There are a few technological hurdles standing in the way. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world ...

Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeffrey Steele has been a freelance writer for one-third of a century. In what has been termed an “infrastructure Investment ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mindy Lubber is CEO and president of Ceres, a sustainability nonprofit organization. This voice experience is generated by AI.

Communities are protesting new data centers due to environmental impacts and rising utility costs. Data centers require significant amounts of electricity and water, with consumption expected to grow.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Emerging research from Arizona State University finds data centers are warming surrounding neighborhoods by several degrees Fahrenheit, a preliminary finding that could pose ...

Several key tech companies signed a nonbinding pledge at the White House on Wednesday that the Trump administration claims will ensure that tech companies do not pass the cost of data centers on to ...