As political resistance builds and local organizing becomes more coordinated, this is now a sustained and intensifying trend,” the authors of the new study wrote.

Blackstone’s Global Infrastructure Partners and Spanish construction company ACS are forming a joint venture to develop data centers.

Historically, data center design was linear: Size the facility to meet demand forecasts and hope for the best. Power and cooling were oversized to meet peak capacity, often leaving ample capacity permanently idle. Cooling architectures were fixed, leading to hot and cold aisles with heating systems blasting away in unused zones.

While Oklahoma is embracing data centers, local and state leaders throughout the United States are pausing or banning the industry's growth.

Data centers have powered the internet for years, but with the rise of artificial intelligence, they are projected to need eye-popping amounts of power, along with costly infrastructure upgrades to deliver it. A 2024 report by the US Department of Energy estimated that data centers would use between 6.7 and 12% of the nation’s electricity by 2028.

A proposed target of 250 gigawatts of compute capacity by 2033 would also produce twice the carbon of leading oil and gas firms, Truthdig estimates.

There's an under-the-radar area of the market set to win big from data centers. Four commodities in particular stand to gain, a top strategist says.

In a shift, the world will spend $40 billion more on new data centers this year than it will on finding new sources of oil.

A 10-year $140 million tax break for a Fort Meade data center won unanimous approval from the Polk County Commission on Nov. 4 after the board expressed their pleasure in luring six-figure-salary tech jobs to the county instead of the usual warehouse jobs.

It’s another news roundup! This time, we cover how, using data analytics – and ironically, some AI – a team at Cornell University has mapped the environmental impact of AI by state. They determined that,