2025 revealed how data center outages, from fires and mechanical failures to hyperscale cloud region events, can cascade ...

The rapid development and widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is posing new challenges for electricity ...

Olyphant is working to regulate data centers as the industry eyes the Midvalley town. With data centers already proposed in ...

One float stood out among the tinsel and holiday cheer at the annual Christmas parade here: an unsightly data center with ...

Rising electricity prices are being pinned on data centers, but demand isn’t what makes power expensive. A simple story has taken hold in American politics: Big Tech is consuming vast amounts of ...

Mark Christie, formerly a top power grid regulator, is warning that a proposal that’s part of the Trump administration’s push ...

The data center as we know it is being reimagined as an “AI factory” – a power- and data-optimized plant that turns energy and information into intelligence at industrial scale. The tech stack is ...

Communities across the U.S. are concerned about the environmental impact and rising utility costs associated with new data centers. Local governments are enacting zoning ordinances to gain more ...

Economic growth is a big goal for West Virginia's 2026 legislative session and to achieve that growth, data centers have been ...

The rise of artificial intelligence is driving a surge of data center construction across the United States, and rural communities are feeling the impact. Reading time 4 minutes Elena Schlossberg and ...

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...

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