The AI data center boom is reshaping economies while straining power grids, water supplies, and communities. Here’s the real cost behind AI’s rise.

The Arizona Republic used air quality records to estimate how much energy could be guzzled by data centers in Maricopa County ...

Elon Musk is bringing the same revolutionary thinking that helped him upend the car industry to the data center business with ...

We set out to identify every data center in Maricopa County's energy capacity and identify how water use varied among ...

Data: International Energy Agency; Note: "Other" includes cooling, heat pumps and other building needs; Chart: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Data centers are slated to account for a whopping 50%-ish of U.S.

Engineers at Utilidata's new Ann Arbor headquarters are testing, developing technology to make data centers more power ...

AI firm Nebius will break ground on its Independence hub this year. Keeping the center running will take four contracts and a ...

Many of the developers of the largest projects want to install natural gas plants directly at the site of new data centers, ...

While Viasat has no plans to join the rush to deploy orbital data centers, the satellite operator sees a role providing the ...

As AI increases demand for data centers, many will get built in dense metropolitan areas close to where people live and work.

Executives of Michigan’s second largest electric utility say they’re making “great progress” with big data centers considering the state and more are lining up to join them. “I’m very pleased with the ...

Kentucky lawmakers are preparing for the artificial intelligence data center boom with legislation designed to shield ...