Data centers are an economic boom in some areas and are behind the artificial intelligence economy. However, the cost to communities that host them is still in question.

New and existing data centers could continue receiving a break on the state’s retail sales and use tax, as long as they moved away from fossil fuels and tried to reduce energy usage.

After decades of welcoming the data centers with tax exemptions and open arms, Washington is looking to set rules around ...

Net’s data center moves 10 terabytes of data per second — each second has enough capacity to allow each attendee of a sold-out University of Michigan football game to stream a high-definition movie on ...

Alabama has emerged as a major data center hub with 27 facilities now operating or under construction statewide, including ...

A month after the state’s grid operator said it would pull together data centers and other large load projects that have been waiting to connect to the grid into a group called “ batch zero ,” that ...

The expansion of data centers to power the AI boom has more people wondering: what exactly is in a data center? AFP got a chance to take a look at what is inside. - Concrete warehouse - Data centers ...

Montour County on Tuesday rejected a plan to rezone land so a data center could be built there, becoming the latest locality ...

Bloom Energy has been around for over two decades and was a startup darling funded by Silicon Valley's initial push into the energy sector. It grabbed some marquee customers early on (e.g. Google and ...

Data centers sit at the digital heart of modern society, but their exponential growth brings enormous energy and sustainability challenges. At the forefront of tackling this paradox are Amanda Bryant, ...

AI models are "thirsty," but these servers never drink a drop. Find out why the seabed is the new frontier for high-density ...