As tech firms speed past local opposition toward construction of the state's first "hyperscale" data center, some are pushing for a careful review of potential impact to utility bills and the environment.

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,

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.

From small-town Oregon to the urban outskirts of Jakarta, investors and businesses are racing to build massive data centers to provide enough computing power to sustain growing AI companies. These efforts are only getting more ambitious. Continue reading your article with a WSJ subscription

Residential utility bills rose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period last year, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Power is now the way to invest in AI. Natural gas players and companies that upgrade the grid are on the radar of Gavekal Research’s Will Denyer.

Anthropic has announced a $50 billion investment in computing infrastructure, including new data centers in Texas and New York

The solar-thermal startup wants to deliver electricity for as little as one cent per kWh. But first it has to scale production to 1 million units per year.

As AI-driven data centers emerge in states across the U.S., some residents in Maryland in already paying higher electricity bills. An expert warns that the "full price impact of data centers" won't be felt until closer to 2030.

In the 2022 political drama How to Blow Up a Pipeline, one character in cahoots with an otherwise left-leaning group of radical environmentalists is a mild-mannered Texas family man named Dwayne (Jake Weary).