"This is very accommodating to DTE," one environmental attorney said about the nondisclosure agreements allowing DTE Energy ...

AI’s energy problem may also be its solution, as hyperscalers and governments are increasingly exploring opportunities to repurpose excess heat from data centers. An Amazon Web Services data center in ...

Data centers siphon huge amounts of energy to power artificial intelligence. But their environmental footprint starts to balloon even before the first server switches on due to the immense amount of ...

Residents also oppose a data center the size of 18 Walmarts that is set to be built in pristine woodland outside Bessemer, Ala. “All this will be gone,” one said. The woodland around Bessemer, Ala., ...

AI is inspiring organizations to rethink a fundamental IT concept: the data center. For decades, the data center was a centralized place. It was a handful of large, secure facilities where ...

LISLE, Ill. (WLS) -- Less than 24 hours after plans for a proposed data center in Naperville were struck down by city council, the process began for another data center just a few miles away. A data ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Judging by state and local filings alone, the U.S.' data center computing capacity could jump by close to 1,000% if all projects currently planned come to ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and The Salt Lake Tribune, a nonprofit newsroom in Utah. In late September, Governor Spencer Cox of Utah stood on the shores of the ...

About 20% of all the data centers in the U.S. are located in eight states around the Great Lakes. As of 2024, the region had 525 data centers — with another 224 planned by 2030, according to data ...

Tech giants are in a heated race to build data centers and dominate the AI landscape. But America might not be ready for the energy demand. The country’s aging electrical grid could struggle to keep ...

AI data centers on the East Coast are gobbling up so much juice that nonprofit grid operator PJM may be forced to enact rolling blackouts on its customers during both heat waves and exceptionally cold ...

An Equinix data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Swollen with seemingly insatiable demand for computing power, the AI boom has birthed hundreds of unicorns out of thin air, minted dozens of billionaires ...