(The Center Square) – Data centers may not be visible to most Americans, but they are shaping everything from electricity use to how communities grow. These facilities house the servers that process ...

Some of the world’s largest tech companies are looking to set up huge data centers in small Michigan communities, drawing questions from residents and leaving ill-equipped local governments to grapple ...

PLAINS TWP. — To start a conference, John Augustine displayed a map of 29 spots in Northeast Pennsylvania where developers want to open data centers. Augustine, president of Penn’s Northeast, doesn’t ...

The Columbia City Council has defined data centers and restricted their construction to general industrial zones. Developers must now obtain a conditional use permit from the city to build a data ...

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 ...

Maine is poised to become the first state to pass a temporary ban on data center construction after a measure was approved by both chambers of the state legislature. Similar bills have been introduced ...